Jade Grille - Mt. Lebanon (Pittsburgh, Greensburg: restaurants, kitchen, best)

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I mentioned this on the foodies thread, but since we're doing restaurants as they're own topic now, figured I'd promote it here. Interesting place, definitely not your typical Pittsburgh Chinese-American menu. No General Tso! And an open kitchen, so you can watch the 10 or so cooks ply their trade.

Noodles are hand-pulled and no question they're the best (maybe only) south of Oakland/SqH. Taste and texture are both spot-on, and any dish featuring noodles is an excellent bet - I can recommend the DanDan noodles and the seafood soup, which features abundant noodles. The house-made dumplings are a junior version of traditional soup dumplings, you'll get a decent squirt of tasty broth - but not the mouth-scalding volume you might get in Chinatown in NY or SF.

I haven't tried the bacon & quali eggs, nor the skewers yet, but expect to go back and try things I missed. But the noodles are definitely a star here.

Several sakes were already available on my last visit, but according to yesterday's PG, they're adding sake flights. I also learned from the bartender that the kitchen staff has a stash of baiju, the infamous Chinese liquor that tastes like a sake/turpentine cocktail, and if you ask, you might get some.

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I thought we were doing the foodies thread? There was one in Greensburg on its own and now you started a couple more. Is the foodies thread now kaput?

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Originally Posted by gg

I thought we were doing the foodies thread? There was one in Greensburg on its own and now you started a couple more. Is the foodies thread now kaput?

Follow along gg. No, the foodie thread isn't kaput, nor should it be.

But... if one person comes along and posts a thread on a restaurant, then why not everyone, right? It's only fair.