Fantastic food find

Whenever you travel to a new city and have to find restaurants to eat (we try to avoid chain restaurants), you definitely want to bring Jeff with you.  He will do lots of research prior to arriving and find these awesome little places that no one has heard of.  Because I am gluten free and Samantha is somewhat picky, Jeff goes out of his way to make sure we will all have a good eating experience.

When we stayed in downtown Pittsburgh during our Spring Break trip, Jeff found us this total hole-in-the-wall restaurant that offered a mix of greek and Italian food.  To Jeff's defense, he didn't know it was a hole-in-the-wall until we walked thru their door.  But the menu online looked good and I was up for giving them a chance. By the way, this is so not like me.  I usually base everything on how a restaurant presents themselves. First impression is everything!

I ordered an asparagus and tomato gluten free pizza.  Jeff ordered a garden salad with gyro meat, Ian ordered a 5 cheese white pie with bacon and a garlic base.  And Sam ordered chicken tenders.  It was the kind of place where you order at the counter, pay right away and then they'll bring you the food to the table.  There were maybe a total of 8 tables.  I had the feeling they did a huge take-out and delivery service by the looks of the traffic that went in and out while we were there. 

We put the order in and find us a table - which was easy to do as we were the only ones sitting there and planing to eat our food on the spot.  Jeff's salad is handed to him and right away we notice the gyro meat is missing.  They are confused why Jeff would want gyro meat on his garden salad.  Jeff assumed since the menu offered to add different kinds of meats to any of the above salads, that this wouldn't be a strange request.  However, I guess it applies to every other salad they have listed.  So the salad gets handed back to fix.  Then the guy tells us that they are out of chicken tenders.  So now Sam has to pick something different to order.  Ugh!  She does not do well having to make an on-the-spot decision.  She is hemming and hawing for a good 5 minutes while the guy waits for her to say what new thing she wants to eat.  I order for her and decide to do a kid's portion of pasta with sauce on the side. 

Ian and I are devouring our pizzas.  Seriously we can't stop raving about how insanely good the pizza is.  OMG!  This could very well be THE best gluten free pizza I've ever had.  And for some reason having asparagus on it wasn't weird at all.

Sam's noodles arrive with a container of sauce that is bigger than her bowl of noodles. I ask the guy for some Parmesan cheese for Sam to put on her pasta.   Jeff's salad comes back the Gyro meat on it.  He is very pleased with how great it tastes.  Ian and I are stuffing our mouths with the yummiest pizzas ever.   The guy comes back with a huge pile of mozzarella cheese.  It was very odd, but we let it go and decided we were done bothering him.  I think we ended up becoming very high maintenance customers and they probably thanked themselves that they don't have more tables available for people to stay and eat. 

Would we go back?  In a heartbeat!  This place, which was less than appealing to look at, was fantastic.  We actually said that if we were ever in the area or near the area, we'd make it a point to return.  We currently have a fantastic Mexican restaurant like that in Delaware (for all those times we are on I-95) and now we will have a place bookmarked in Pittsburgh.  Sometimes it's worth the extra 10 minutes or so it takes you out of the way when you know you will have a fantastic meal.

Here is our big pile of Mozzarella cheese. 
Not sure what we were supposed to do with it. I had asked for Parmesan.  Ha!

My amazingly delicious pizza!
I ate two slices before I could slow down enough take a picture.