Meat and Potatoes - Pittsburgh

I recently made two visits to Meat Potatoes for the first time in years, the first time with a group of friends and the second for a business dinner. First of all, the service is excellent both times our waiters were attentive, flexible, and extremely polite/ personable/ professional. Seriously, no notes an +A experience on all fronts. The atmosphere is great too they strike the perfect balance between being fairly casual but with an upscale feel, all the while avoiding any pretentiousness. I think my two visits (and a recent one to the Rib Room) sum it up well it 's a great place for a date, a dinner with friends, or even a business dinner. The food is excellent overall, but I do have to knock a star off for one glaring issue on each visit. Good stuff first the sides were all excellent, the portion sizes are generous, and most of the entree 's were fantastic on both visits (a few people SWEAR there must be meat in the vegan meatloaf, in the best way possible). The first issue though was with the Steak Frites the strip was a decent sized portion, but the sear was pretty much non existent, and (perhaps correspondingly) it was far into rare territory as opposed to the medium rare I ordered. The amount of connective tissue also leads me to think that it was a vein steak , or a cut from the hip end of the striploin, which was a pretty huge disappointment for the $65 price. The second issue was with the scallops and crab risotto that a few of us had on my second visit. The scallops themselves were excellent and were cooked perfectly with a great sear, but the risotto was very clearly undercooked with a noticeable grit to it. Neither of these issues are unforgivable and can probably be chalked up to timing for parties of 6, but they they were disappointing nonetheless. Overall, I was pretty happy, and between these two experiences and a recent one at the Rib Room, I would certainly give them another shot.

This place we thought was going to be nice but bartender was rude food served was not hot and wine he served was not kept in refrigerator. Overall terrible customer service.

Good food but waited over an hour while a couple beside me and my fiancé ate two courses before we even got our first. Never got checked up on or even an apology for the lack of timing on food coming out. I was also told to use an outside restroom while my finance got to use the inside one. I believe this is because of my attire. I was definitely descriminated against and treated poorly for my attire. We would have loved this place otherwise if the service and timing wasn’t so horrible

The average at best the service is horrible the personel seem to feel intitled my party and I walked out before we ordered

Upscale atmosphere with great service. Really liked the appetizers like the bone marrow.