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segfaultxr7 t1_j6oe33m wrote

Reply to comment by InTheZayn in Onion Maiden is shutting down at the end of March by timesuck

> Pittsburgh has way, way too many local restaurants (and other businesses) that make themselves needlessly difficult to patronize.

It's like the "only in the mood for Chick-Fil-A on Sunday" problem, but for half the week! I'll try to eat somewhere and find that they won't be open for 3 more days, or they are open, but only for dinner and I need lunch. Or vice versa. Eventually I lose all interest and quit trying.

And then there are the times where all the stars align, I call in an order, and they act like I'm crazy for trying to buy something that doesn't exist. Because their menu on their website is 6 years out of date, and I'm supposed to just magically know that.

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InTheZayn t1_j6ogfk3 wrote

I hesitate to even reference them specifically because I know I'm going to get overwhelmed by folks raving about them, but there's that donut place in the West End that's supposed to be the absolute best donuts in the city, and they sell out by like 9am every day. Why in the world would I ever go there? In literally every other city I've ever lived in or visited frequently, if you ask what the "best" of something is, you are reliably told about a place that operates like a normal business that you can just...go to. When you ask that question in Pittsburgh, though, the answer is always some place in a neighborhood you've never heard of, somehow it's never anywhere near you (no matter where you live), they're only open for 30 minutes one Thursday per month, and they accept every currency except the US dollar.

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