Food - 5 stars\nHostess - 1 star.  Awful.\n\nThe food at Sienna is fantastic (the only reason why I have been back more than once).  I live in NYC and am pretty picky about my Italian restaurants.  I'm currently in Pittsburgh on a long term work assignment- staying downtown, and therefore I eat dinner out every night alone.  \n\nI have gone to Sienna both for dinner and lunch.  The meal both times has been fantastic BUT the hostess (same one both times) was rude, condescending, and inappropriate.  I hope management reads this and has a talk with her.  I understand that I am one person and would NEVER take up a big table on a busy night at a restaurant.  I'm happy sitting at the bar.  That being said-- on a Monday night in an empty restaurant, I expect to be welcomed kindly.  No looking me up and down, and quesitoning \"on, ONE person? Dining ALONE? Well... I guess we have space for you at the bar.\"  No kidding, in the empty restaurant- thanks.  Then I went there again at lunch (WANTING to eat at the bar) when it was early and there were tons of tables open and the bar was full and again-- the look, the grimace.\n\nIt is a SHAME that a restaurant with such fantastic food (meatballs, octopus appetizer, flatbread, and wine selection are AMAZING) chooses to put such an ugly face forward.\n\nI would love to have Sienna on my weekly restaurant rotation but instead am opting for Meat & Potatoes (MUCH busier but still recognize me with a warm welcome) and Penn Avenue Fish Company (same thing-- busy but welcoming).