Wed. July 8, 2026
Hello Folks,
It is hard to imagine that so many horrible things can go on with one restaurant visit. Here is the write up
I plan to put into Yelp and also the Le Mont's Own comment section, which Becky they will surely take down.
Happy reading below. What a horrible experience with initially my believing that I am taking Becky to "one of
the classiest spots in all of Pittsburgh. Boy was I wrong!!!
Harvey Sherman
Bethesda, Md.
(Grew Up In Carnegie, Pa. -- Carnegie, Pa. Is A close-In Suburb Of Pitt. Pa.--
and lived there for 27 years prior to moving to DC)
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I WANTED TO TAKE MY LONG TIME GIRLFRIEND TO WHAT I BELIEVED TO BE ONE
OF THE CLASSIEST & EXPENSIVE RESTAURANTS IN THE
PITTSBURGH, PA. AREA. BOY WAS I WRONG!!!
ONCE INSIDE, GOT INSTEAD, ONE DISASTER AFTER ANOTHER THERE
My name is Harvey Sherman Bethesda, Maryland. Grew Up in Carnegie, Pa. and for the first 27 years lived there also. Then I
moved to the Washington DC area, but come to visit to the Pittsburgh area 2-3 times a year to visit there, and to
spend time with these 2 longtime special buddies of mine and their wives, along with my longtime girlfriend.
The Lemont Restaurant was considered "one of the top classiest restaurants in the Pittsburgh area".
No longer; They have lost their golden crown. So, finally I did so, and got a reservation ahead of time for the six of us to go to the Lamont Restaurant for dinner the 6 of us, 6:30 PM Friday, July 3.
NOW THE STORY GETS JUICY; AND THIS HORRIBLE DEBACLE ABOUT OUR HORRIFIC DINNER EXPERIENCE BEGINS.
FIRST, we ordered two appetizers and surprisingly, they were served and all OK with them. Then we each ordered our entrées
and the calamity of a major nature started happening, And quite shockingly unexpected.
My girlfriend ordered seafood; her entree was OK. Then, they came out with my one male friend's order ... a seafood
pasta that came out OK.
NOW WAIT; THE DISASTERS NOW BEGIN
My guy friend's wife ordered a vegetable entree in which the tofu came out like hard pieces of cardboard ... four or five slices.
They looked horrible; she couldn't eat them. The other guy's wife ordered a steak; and she wanted it pink; it didn't come out as she ordered it. Big disappointment for her. My other male friend ordered a crabcakes' entree; they were mostly filler; he was quite angry and called the general manager, who took it off the bill, not to be charged. Are you getting the lack of high-quality professionalism at this restaurant?
As for me, I ordered two lesser items because I was somewhat full from the appetizers. I ordered onion soup, which was fine and also a Caesar salad with anchovies on it. What I got instead of anchovies were small baby sardines, which turned me off, and the Caesar salad at the time I ate it tasted good. BUT BUT BUT........disaster hit me that night about 1 AM.
By 1 AM that evening I began getting a very sour stomach, nearly throwing up and every 45 minutes from about 1 AM July 4 through about 4 PM July 4, I had to visit the bathroom terribly often .... at least 8 to 10 times (about every 25-35 minutes) feeling super sick.
I ask myself, is this my time to DIE? By then I knew, I had food poisoning from the Caesar salad.
How did I recognize food poisoning on myself? Years ago when I was in business, I went to a trade function various times in Baltimore; it was a bull-oyster roast. The last time I went to that function, I pigged-out on oysters which I did before; came home
that night and got stricken severely with the same identical symptoms, sore stomach, headache, and bathroom runs for over 12 hours. I knew I had food poisoning. Also, I knew by the extensive reading I do that Caesar salad is made from Romain lettuce; and if you look on the Internet, it is known to have a good amount of e coli in many of the bags or whole Romain lettuce heads.
STILL MORE FUN READING BELOW....
And then, lastly, to top it off with the many debacles mentioned above, I asked them where the men's room was, and they pointed to stairs going upstairs. Not only do I have a bad hip that I have to get operated on, but for one to have to go upstairs with a sore hip was not so nice. They then told me that on this main floor, that there's a men's bathroom to the left. I said why did you not tell me that there's a Men's bathroom on the main floor to the left? I said to them where is a sign on the wall that there is a men's room on same floor? Didn't have one. read more