Absolutely delicious! DeBlaze at 131 is an Italian-American restaurant we discovered online, and…read morewe were beyond impressed by the ambiance, service, and, most importantly, the food. We made a reservation online, and upon arrival, we were immediately greeted and seated by the very kind young host. There is also a public parking lot next door that offers free parking in the evenings, which made our visit even more convenient. We were seated upstairs, where our waitress took excellent care of us throughout the evening. She was prompt, friendly, and incredibly helpful when answering our questions and making recommendations. After ordering our drinks, which were deliciously crafted, we were served two rolls accompanied by their homemade olive oil dip. I wish I had asked what ingredients were in the dip because it was absolutely phenomenal! For our appetizer, we chose the House Made Meatballs in their Sunday Sauce. The sauce was unlike any other, but had the perfect balance of tangy, salty, and sweet. For dinner, we ordered the Shrimp and Lobster Florentine, Carbonara, and Smoked Gouda Pierogies. Every dish came out quickly, the perfect temperature, and packed with flavor. We truly had nothing negative to say about our experience at DeBlaze at 131. We were hoping to try one, or more, of their homemade desserts, but unfortunately, we were too full. Thankfully, that's just one more reason to come back and enjoy another incredible meal!

My husband and I visited for my birthday dinner, and we had a wonderful experience. Our server,…read moreAnna, was friendly, attentive, and made us feel very welcome throughout the evening. We started with the bruschetta appetizer, which was absolutely delicious. For dinner, I had the chicken marsala, and the portion was huge with incredible flavor. My husband ordered the filet and lobster tail, and both were cooked perfectly. We were seated on the porch, where we enjoyed a beautiful view and a great breeze that made the evening even more enjoyable. Between the excellent food, outstanding service, and relaxing atmosphere, it was the perfect place to celebrate my birthday. We will definitely be back!

Came for live music for the first time and only had some drinks. Saw some quality looking food and…read morecame back a few weeks later for Thursday trivia night. The service is great and the buffalo Pittsburgh salad was one of the best in the city, truly! Creamy ranch, buffalo sauce mild but flavorful, and generous portion. As a craft beer person, I'd love a few more craft options for longer stays like trivia night...sipped on an IC light as options are a little limited there. Will definitely be back to try more items on menu...buddy said the wings were quality as well

Good food and great staff. Great fish sandwiches on Friday. And great wings. Miss the Big Guyread more

Locally owned spot that's been a West Liberty staple for a couple of decades…read more I'm giving three-stars because it's not always consistent and sometimes really just hit or miss with the food. Back in the day it was 4-5 stars all day everyday. Service is always decent though. Typical neighborhood local vibe. When the food is good, it's great. Here are things I've had and loved and sometimes only liked: Burgers (they do crazy things with them like topping with a pierogi) Fries Chicken Pesto Sandwich Mac & Cheese

Came here during Lent for a fried fish sandwich, which came highly recommended from many locals…read more The atmosphere is very casual and you're able to sit anywhere you're comfortable. Our waiter came immediately and let us know the drinks on draft were $2 off for Happy Hour. I ordered the Purple Haze, a raspberry lager, and really enjoyed it's smooth fruity flavor. As a meal, I ordered the fish sandwich with chips, since upgrading to fries was an extra $3. The sandwich came out within 10mins, freshly hot and fried crispy. They split the big fish in half and stacked it on a bun, so it's very filling. On the side they give you a small portion of tarter sauce, which wasn't nearly enough for how much fish was on the sandwich. It was in need for a bit more flavor, so we requested hot sauce. Tabasco was free (other sauces were 50 cents) but unfortunately the bottle stated it expired in June of 2023. It didn't have any spice left and was a brownish color, so I didn't want to put it on my fish. The chips on the side were good, seasoned with salt and pepper. Overall the fish sandwich was good and a large portion, it just needed more sauce or maybe seasoning on the batter to give it more flavoring. For $15, I would recommend supporting a Firehall or Church fish fry that provides more sides with their menu items for the same quality.

My husband and I stopped in for a late lunch today. My Happy Hippie salad with chicken might be…read moreone of the best salads I have ever eaten! Very filling (I even have left overs for lunch tomorrow). Home made dressings were delicious too! Hubby had a ginormous Reuben sandwich which he said is one of the best he's ever eaten (also has lunch for tomorrow). Service was splendid and our server was very friendly!

I haven't been to Brick and Mortar in years...like since they renovated the place, probably…read morepre-pandemic. What an improvement over the tiny little order-at-the-counter spot with the free wine and rickety folding chairs! The food was good before, and it's still good, but the place is now a full service, upstairs-downstairs cozy spot. We had fried pickles, a sunshine salad (as a side salad), and a couple of hot dogs--the bacon dog and the Picklesburgh dog. Pickles were a tiny bit greasy but crunchy and substantial. The side salad was absolutely delicious with lots of textures and crunch, both acidic and a little sweet all at the same time. I would order it as a dinner salad for sure. I didn't try the bacon dog, but my husband liked it. The Picklesburgh dog was a delicious mess--truly, it was so messy--but it was crunchy and salty and briny, and totally worth ordering next time I'm in the mood for a dog. I shouldn't have waited so long to go back to Brick and Mortar; I'm glad we finally checked it out.

Stopped here on a Friday afternoon around 2:30 and my party were the only ones there. I had the…read moreShotgun Shrimp and the Nachos with chicken. the 2 others in my group had Chicken Tenders & Fries, Rival SmashBurger and Rival Stix. The Shrimp was reminiscent of Bang Bang shrimp. Its a decent serving size for an appetizer. I enjoyed it. The nachos were surprisingly tasty. When they came out I was unsure about them because any other time I've ever ordered a loaded type nacho they're, how do I explain it, more colorful I guess. Usually its like bacon and American cheese, guac, pico, etc., but these were just shades of white and green. I wish I could've finished them but the portion was quite a bit for 1 person. My only gripe would be the chicken. It reminded me of the meat you get in a launchable. I think I would rather prefer a crispy diced chicken. But that's just me. The other 2 didn't have any complaints about the Rival Stix or the burger. The Chicken Tenders were said to not have much flavor in the breading. The person who ordered them didn't care for the breading. I was also tempted into some sort of creme brulee donut I think. It was really good but I was already so stuffed from the nachos that I couldn't finish it. Its for the sweet tooth folks. The general space is all sports themed as expected. Quite spacious. Seems like the perfect place to come after work for a beer...and nachos!

Our service for the Super Bowl with a large group was amazing. I wish I remembered our waitress's…read morename. She was so sweet and service was great too. Our table tried a lot more of the food including a pizza with the garlic sauce instead of red sauce (delicious), crème brûlée donut (amazing), spinach dip (decent and much better than it looked), brownie sundae (looked great and friends said it was), nachos (also looked good and included lettuce, which is a nice touch). The drinks were also very good! The sound wasn't the best for the Super Bowl/commercials. I couldn't hear some of what was said in commercials, but I record the game, so I'll watch some of them again later. I still hope we go there again next year for the Super Bowl. It was a lot of fun.

For a hotel restaurant, I was pretty surprised at the food. I ordered the coconut shrimp. The were…read morecrispy and came with an orange marmalade dip that had a bit of a kick too it. Very much lacking in the coconut flavor itself. Then I got the chicken caesar wrap. It was a good chicken to filler ratio. Again just wish it had a bit more flavor to it. I finished with a side of fries that were perfectly cooked. Crispy outside soft inside. Would have liked some ranch with the fries but they said this wasn't something they had at the moment. All in all, if you are staying at the hotel and want a quiet night there, the limited menu is fresh and well prepared. However, I would not seek the restaurant out otherwise.

This is the bar restaurant just off of the lobby…read more The bar tenders are wonderful people and take very good care of the patrons. I ended up getting wings 2 nights in a row and I can say the wings here are very good. Worth it as a meal. I also got the tiramisu which isn't what I would call tiramisu, but it is still very good. I can't wait to eat here again. Normally I would not eat more than once at a hotel, but I seen there salad and Caprese burger and both look amazing and for the price it is still reasonable and I will enjoy again before I leave.

the food was horrible - the wings looked like chicken nuggets and were as hard as a rock - the…read morefries were not good either. The raspberry tea did not taste like anything like raspberry. This was the Greentree PA location. we sent back the first order and the second one was just as bad. First of all how do wings look like nuggets. Felt bad for our waitress because it wasn't her fault the food was horrible.

I'm not sure where to begin, there were so many problems…read more I guess the worst was at payment. The server clicked a button on the list on-the-table-pay-for-stuff thing, turned it around and left. It showed just the grand total. I wanted to see an itemized bill, and so clicked a button to show that to me. Glad I did, it tried to charge us for games we never paid; in fact, we never even touch the thing until after the server set it up to take our payment. So I waited and waited for the server to come back. She looked at it and played with and said she needed to get the manager to come fix it. We waited and waited, and finally the server came back, but without the manger, though apparently the manager had cleared things so we could pay. Whew. The server also said we were her third customer that day with the problem. What? If it's that common just for the people that check, how many more never bothered to look and just paid for the games they didn't play anyway? It does make you wonder if this is just incompetence, or if it's a deliberate scam. At the very least they servers should be trained to actively LOOK for this problem before presenting the bill to their customers. After paying I asked for an email receipt. It was murder adding it--it appears to really want a domain ending in .com, not .org which mine is. But before I could finish entering my address it said "thank, receipt sent," I guess because it timed out or something; I wonder where that receipt went? Certainly not to me. It then asked for my opinions. First it asked if the manager had ever been visible in the dining room. Nope, even when the server when to get them! Next it asked how satisfied? I was honest and clicked the "extremely dissatisfied" button. It then, appropriately, asked "why?" So I started to type in an explanation of all the things that had gone wrong. Guess what, it only allows a tweet-length explanation, I never got most of problems entered, so they have no idea how many things they got wrong. And it's not like they're going to try to reach out to me since they refused to take my email address earlier. And all this was at the very end. The first problem was they didn't have what my wife wanted. Not an entree they were out of, but broccoli? How can you be out of broccoli? They could just walk to grocery store that's practically next door and get some if they need it. Go figure. Since the mixed veggie they offered as a replacement was so unpalatable my wife asked, when the food was finally after a long wait, delivered to our table, for an additional side of cole slaw (which we would and did pay for). The waitress said "sure." We waited and waited, and it never came. Finally we just ate what they had delivered. And after we finished we waited some more. Eventually the server came back, and started to ask about desert. My wife politely mentioned that she'd never gotten her cole slaw, and the server apologized and went off to get it. After we'd finished our meals. Another long wait. eventually it arrived, in time for us to take home. Then, of course, the above debacle paying I described above. Oh, we neither of us thought the food was all that good. The pretzel appetizer was good, though the "beer cheese" we suspect wasn't that at all, but Alfredo sauce. Weird. And the mashed potatoes were good. Everything else was pretty "meh." Oh, and my wife did not enjoy being forced to watch the bloodshed of some sort of women's professional fighting on the TV facing her five feet away right over my head; fortunately I couldn't see it and so didn't have to watch (I did ofter to swap places with her, but she didn't want me to have to watch the bloodshed even more then she didn't want to forced to watch it. Applebee's gets Fs for all of service, food, payment and ambiance. Altogether not a pleasant meal.

Crafton Ice Cream Delite is a cute little roadside stand, window only service, with a few tables…read moreoutside for seating. I stopped by for ice cream, but noticed they have a full menu of savory items as well. I ordered a single scoop of coffeehouse cookies and cream. It was an extra $0.50 to pay with a card, but the prices are already very fair so it wasn't an issue at all. I waited maybe a minute and then my ice cream was ready at the next window. The service is prompt and friendly. The only downside is the parking lot is situated at a weird angle to the road that it's on. If you pull head in to the spot, it's very difficult to pull out again without worrying about all of the oncoming traffic and the line of cars waiting right behind you for the light to change at the intersection.

Love this place!! It's so good truly not much you can go wrong with in terms of their ice cream…read more(have not tried the food) the service is quick and they are all very kind. It's such a cute spot but there is only outdoor seating so be mindful of that. I highly recommend it's the perfect local spot!

Celebrated my wife's birthday along with our daughters tonight at Mad Mex. Not a great experience…read more Our server (I'll call her "Regina" because she reminded me of Regina George from Mean Girls) set the tone as we took our seats, hurriedly asking us what we wanted to drink. I was still settling into my chair, but I said "Oh - OK, let me see," and flipped through the menu while the kids gave their drink orders. I realized after a few seconds that the drinks must be listed elsewhere, but I didn't want to drag things out so I just said, "I'll take a margarita." Regina gave me a pitying half-smile and said with withering condescension, "Uh, that's the drink menu over there," gesturing toward it (while she didn't actually add "loser," it seemed implied somehow). I wanted to say, "I'm very sorry, but you see I just sat down 3 seconds ago and hadn't even had time to look around the table to spot the drink menu. Could you maybe slow it down a little?" But I didn't think to say that until after she had speed-walked away. After about a minute had passed, she returned with the kids' drinks and asked us if we were ready to order. Our youngest got a little flustered and started to order but clearly hadn't made up her mind yet, so Regina took the hint and offered to come back. When she returned with my wife's and my drinks a few minutes later, she then asked us what we were having in a way that made it clear she would be taking our order now, right now. I wasn't ready but the others were, so I let them order while I quickly scanned the menu. We ordered chips and salsa as an appetizer, specifically the "Pickadippa" with queso blanco, guac and salsa. I was hungry and was looking forward to that as a starter. The appetizer was a no-show but the rest of our food showed up with impressive speed - everything we'd ordered was on our table within, I'd say, under 10 minutes. I'd barely touched my drink so far but that was OK, I was hungry, as mentioned previously. I tucked into my dinner, but my wife had the presence of mind to catch our retreating server and ask about the appetizer. Regina said she would check on it. Shortly afterward a manager came out and explained that our appetizer had been given to another table in error, who had claimed it as their own. So she kindly comped it and promised we'd have it soon, and we did. We were now halfway through our meals and had lost a lot of our interest in chips and salsa, but we gamely ate it along with our entrees. (I recount the appetizer incident not because it was a big deal - it wasn't, these things happen - but because Regina didn't take any ownership of it and left it for her manager to take care of. Our actual server never said a word about it.) When it came time to pay the check, along with my card I included the printout of the birthday discount my wife had brought with her (a nice loyalty perk that Big Burrito offers). Regina swung by, grabbed the check tray and started to hurry away, but before she had vanished I turned to her and mentioned, just to make sure she was aware of it, "We have a birthday coupon there for one of our entrees," to which Regina sort of grimaced and said, "Uh...OK?" as though it was completely unnecessary for me to say that, which maybe it was. But again, the frosty mean-girl disdain. In truth, she had treated my whole family like we smelled bad from the moment we sat down. Literally as though there was something repulsive about us and she could barely bring herself to speak to us. I can attest that we all shower daily and that my wife and daughters are not remotely repulsive. Me, I dunno. So, thanks to speed queen Regina, our entire birthday dinner lasted about 45 minutes, tops, from walking in to walking out. And that would be great if we'd been, I don't know, late for the opera and really needed a speedy meal. But personally, on the rare occasions when we go out to eat at a halfway civilized restaurant, I like to sit and enjoy my food. You know, chew it. I don't need hours and hours, but maybe a little longer than 45 minutes including drinks, appetizer, entree and (the kids') dessert. The food was fine, reliably tasty Mad Mex food. No problems there. And the kids had fun and didn't notice anything amiss, thankfully. But for me and my wife, our server's demeanor just made the whole experience kind of unpleasant. Maybe Regina was just having a bad day and I should cut her some slack. But I mean...it's hard not to take it personally when your server is not only rushing the meal to an almost comical degree, but also seems to have an attitude toward you from start to finish when you did nothing to upset them other than being seated in their section. Maybe it's not her fault at all - maybe Big Burrito is training their servers to turn around tables as fast as humanly possible now. They didn't used to. Whatever the problem, it will probably be a good long while before we go back.

Spectacular service, cool ambiance, and the most flavorful foods! Plus kitchen open til 19 this…read moreSunday (in our book we squeezed in around 8:30) I had the most delicious jalapeño margarine with ZERO Proof tequila! Delicious!! The Pennsyltucky fried tofu app with bean sprout is to die for! I laughed that we actually still had entrées coming because the drinks and app were so good. He had a Spicy Man Mex Burrito, and I loved a streak fajitas and shrimp skewer- divine. Yes, with all that food for the two of us, there will certainly be leftovers! Such a convenient spot right off Cochran, with its own parking. We still miss the OG spot in Oakland but are very grateful to have this location!! Thanks to Erin and the team for a wonderful hospitality