Pittsburgh, 1st day.....

So here are the photos of Pittsburgh with our 1st day of stay. The whole purpose of the trip is to go to Xiao-Zhen's wedding, but since the tickets were super expensive I decided we should just go to a city I haven't been to and use the time efficiently....Well...Pittsburgh is really not all that big, so I guess with the time we had we did pretty well checking out diff. places....

The flight was a very tiring one and I almost didn't sleep at all through the whole night. We got to Pittsburgh about 10:30 in the morning, rented the car, and then started our trip by finding a restaurant for lunch. Thanks for the yelp application on my iphone, I was able to find this place for lunch with superb view of Pittsburgh downtown.....The name was "Grand Concourse" at Station Square which was developed from an old train station.

Oyster bar at the entrance....

It looks very classy inside....but we were sitting next to the windows that can look out to the downtown view next to the river....

This is the view we see from where we sat at....

Menu.....

The bread spread in pink was salmon spread....Billy said it was good. I liked their varieties of breads....

You can see the train in the back....this used to be a train station....

Billy's salmon steak, and my crab cake with shrimps....

We tried to go up on the bridge next to the restaurant to take pictures...turned out only ok....and the crazy wind gave me crazy hair styles....

Nice views of downtown from this elevated viewpoint at station square :)



Went straight to the hotel at Monroeville after we took pictures from the station square....I was so dead tired I actually slept for few hours before dinner...

We found this Italian place that is very small and looks like nothing impressive from the outside....turned out to be a pleasant surprise at the end....

Bread was given with this red olive oil...kinda interesting....

The menu...

You would not be able to tell how it looks like from the outside....

salad obviously...

Wedding soup....with meat balls, chicken, and those small grainy thing that I am not sure what they were....

Waitress did a good job taking photo for us I guess....since we looked so happy....

I didn't know my lamb ragu was gonna look like this...but it tasted quite nice I almost finished the whole thing. Billy ordered sea food pasta...

The almond cake didn't taste all that special but sweet....and I noticed the cute menu thingy before we left....Good dinner at an unexpected place....and that concludes our 1st day....