Visitors to Pittsburgh might well enjoy a lunch or dinner at the Carlton on Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. If you are staying in one of the four downtown hotels then you are just a stones throw away from both the restaurant and the Pittsburgh Convention Centre.
Best known in the town for the caricatures of Pittsburgh celebrities that adorn its entrance; the restaurant offers a really good wine list and some great food. The restaurant is easy to find in the Mellon Bank Centre and is a nationally recognized award winning restaurant; having won the Dirona Award for dining of excellence 2000-2006. It has also been voted a favorite restaurant among the residents of Pittsburgh and can get quite busy.
The restaurant has a long dining room, decorated in dark wood and brass which is relieved by sprays of fresh cut flowers. The restaurant is a favorite lunching spot for the city's businessmen and offers a wide ranging menu of excellent dishes - including a favorite veal pasta, excellent seafoods and creative salads put together by the restaurant's talented Italian chefs. The menu changes at least once a week to capitalize on the freshness of local meat, seafood and vegetables.
The Carlton is noted for its wine list which is more affordable then many restaurants of this quality as it only marks the bottles up by $10; allowing visitors to taste a wider range of the products available. So it should come as know surprise that locals vote it as having the best wine list in the City of Pittsburgh.
