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Jozsa Corner
4800 2^nd Ave
Hazelwood, 15207
412-422-1886
M-F 11-6, otherwise by appointment

Need an adventure? A new place with new food? A restaurant completely like any other in the whole of Pittsburgh? Well you’ve hit right upon it! Jozsa Corner is a tiny Hungarian restaurant in Hazelwood and is at the very tip top of my recommendation list at this moment in time. You have to make an appointment with the chef, not a reservation – an appointment, and when you go for dinner he just brings you pile after pile of food, you know not what till it arrives. Mysterious enough yet? You have to go – trust me, you’ll love it! (more…)

Umi
5849 Ellsworth Ave
Shadyside, 15232
412-362-6198
Tu-Th: 5-9:30; F-Sat: 5-10:30

In honor of our recent trip to Italy (literally, we just stepped off the plane yesterday), I’d like to review…..a sushi place?  What?  What’s wrong with me?  I just ate my way through fifteen days of incredible Italian food and I come home to review sushi?  Well, let me explain.  In Italy, the food ranges from good to the best you have ever had in your life.  Really, it is impossible to have a bad meal.  You can find an overpriced meal, or a scary octopus meal, but never a bad or even mediocre one.    Not even our meal in the basement of the airport hotel was bad.  In fact, the worst meal I think we had was a toast that was too big.  That’s it!  Italian food is just always a certain degree of good.  Now in the States, the bottom end of the range dips way way down into fuhgeddaboudit.  BUT, though I had some of the best meals of my life in Italy, most of the rest of them happened in America, and some even in Pittsburgh!  Very many, in fact.  Umi is one of them.  Their sushi is just so…succulent.  So….tasty.  So….fresh.  So…mind-blowing.  So…memorable!  And consistent in all those regards, too.  It is clearly the best in Pittsburgh, and may rival the top sushi in other cities as well.  Start saving up your dough in a sock, because you really shouldn’t miss a delish dish of fish from Umi. (more…)

Korea Garden
414 Semple Street
Oakland,  15213
412-681-6460
M-Sat: 11-10

In legend it is said there exists a hole-in-the-wall restaurant deep in the netherworld of South Oakland on the insidious Semple Street.  This restaurant serves Korean food, but not just any – the BEST.  It has been passed down that native Koreans proclaim it to be the most authentic in all of Pittsburgh, far more so than Sushi Kim or Winner’s.  Yet it remains elusive.  Well, after years of chasing the myth, I’ve found it!  It is in Oakland, just as the legend says.  It is also delicious, as the legend declares.  It is full of Koreans and Korean language is everywhere, in the air and on the menu.  Yup, this is it – the holy grail of Korean food in Pittsburgh. (more…)