The Across Pittsburgh Food and Drink guide to restaurants, brewpubs, taprooms, wineries, and more is a premier resource for locals in Pittsburgh and the surrounding areas of Pittsburgh.
The Across Pittsburgh Food & Drink Guide is a resource for exploration of the rich offering of restaurants in the Pittsburgh area. We are focusing on creating food and drink guides to the great local restaurants and bars located in the North Hills area of Pittsburgh.
The purpose of the Across Pittsburgh Food & Drink guide is to highlight the wonderful dining and drinking establishments that you will find across them Pittsburgh and the 412 aera code.
How is Across Pittsburgh Food & Drink guide different than say just googling restaurants?
For one thing, Google can't be everything, and they do try. You may see so-called "local guides" that have reviewed businesses on Google and while this was a neat idea in theory, in practicality it resulting in ho-hum information, if not spammy and poor quality information, about local restaurants. Oh, there is Yelp too. Don't get us started.
Okay. We got started.
Yelp aims to show nothing but user reviews of restaurants. Hey, they do a good job of that, but our approach is more curatorial and editorial, if you will.
In other words, we want to carefully review what is said about our shops and services and therefore our restaurant and bars. This is not the place to complain about a cold meal, a rude waiter, or a weak drink. Hey, no matter how great a business is, there will be instances of less than desirable service. That is to be understood. But, if you are represented on Across Pittsburgh we are committed to providing a quality listing be it free or a featured one.
While you have a right to be unhappy about poor service, we don't provide a platform for griping about instances of less than desired service. If your meal was incorrect, cold, overcooked, whatever - take it up with the restaurant. However, if you have something constructive to say or a suggestion that is more than a complaint but a way for a restaurant to legitimately enhance its customer experience, then we would love to approve a review like that.
So you might ask. Is this than just a platform to say nothing critical about a business?
No. We are only saying this is not a complaint website. All comments must useful and present a balanced perspective otherwise we will not approve it. Now, that being said, we will pay attention to complaints.
If we get a lot of bad critical complaints about a business, we may likely investigate, and then choose, at our discretion, to remove them from the website. We just are not a public one-sided forum for disputes. In fact, featured restaurants have full control over their so-called "endorsements".
Yes, featured restaurants can choose what appears on their listing page. That being said, it must be true stuff that real customers have actually said. We will do our part to ensure that anything posted about a restaurant or business is true and attributable to real customers. If we feel a restaurant is making up stuff, then we will remove them from our site at our sole discretion.
Admittedly, the Pittsburgh Food & Drink is a work in progress, but in progress it is. As the editor, I personally invite anyone to contribute to Pittsburgh Food & Drink. The purpose of our Food & Drink guide is to showcase our shop local restaurants and bars and if you are interested in helping us do that, then we would love to hear from you. Use the contact form and send us a message.
Happy eating—and drinking across Pittsburgh and the 412!
