Spots to go to , spots to avoid?

BAD

The McDonald's closest to the Omni was terrible. We only ate there because it was the nearest available thing still open at the hour we got in Thursday.

How does it take you five minutes to screw up a 2 item order? There were a couple other folks standing around too and I think they screw up every single person's order.

Amazingly awful.

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GOOD

Fernando's sub shop was excellent. They were jam packed when we went with perhaps twenty people in line, but got everybody through within a two minutes window. Amazingly efficient. Good food. Highly recommended.

The Italian restaurant in the theatre district was very nice if you want a fancier meal. (I'm blanking on name) Reasonably priced for a fancier sit down dinner. The night we were there, we were apparently first congoers they had seen, so were very interested in what was going on. Service was very fast. Wait time was maybe 10 minutes between time we ordered and got food. Might be longer for something more complicated than pasta, but not a whole lot. One warning, tables are very small and the space it tight! Cozy, but not a lot of spare space. Leave bags and prints in the hotel room. There's not really any space to put gear down.

Sushi Kim's was also excellent. The walk is a little daunting since there's a gap between it and anything else on that street and you start wondering if you missed it. I have no idea what we ate. We pointed at pictures to order since we'd never had Korean food. If you order off the Korean menu (rather than the sushi) and have a party of two or more, dinner comes with about four little pots of strange sidedishes. Very affordable, very pleasant.

Subway is one of my favourite places to eat at Anthrocon. There were two that I had spotted on Liberty Avenue (I think that's the street), both within just blocks of each other. If you're a health nut... well, let's face it, it's going to be exponentially better than Mickey D's... you might as well go to Subway.

There's a variety of nutritious options for your sub sandwich. I like turkey and bacon with shredded cheese, onions, tomato, lettuce and spinach with a splash of mayo. A footlong is good enough to keep me going throughout the day. 6" for lunch, and a 6" for dinner. Doesn't hurt to throw in a cookie or a bag of chips, but the sandwich is the big thing. Get a Powerade or bottled water with your lunch instead of cola. You'll feel a lot better and much more alert with healthier food in your system.

Well one thing about the McDonald's, which I guess is near the Omni, I'm surprised that they don't serve Big Macs after a certain time.

I saw it last year but didn't go.

I plan on riding the Duquesne Incline this year. It's an old cable car from the 1880's I believe.

Speaking of füd, on my "To Eat" list is a nice big plate of chocolate chip pancakes.
Where's the best place to get those?
Noy

my fovorite places to eat,

Brown bag deli (in the lil mall next to the hotel)
the pizza n panini place.

I've had some stuff from mcd's, I've also walked to arbys

and steel city diner has some awesome breakfast sandwiches. it was Huge, and came with homefries.. YUM!

Well, I know there are some nice places to walk around, lovely views.
As for food, McD's was barely digestable. I would stay away from any place attached to the hotels, unless you like paying that much for three bites. I would deffinetly suggest Fernando's, great food, discount to furries. As well, more then sure All Fur Radio will be there pumping music and maybe giving away gift cards for that place as well. But I will be inhaling food from there. so see you there.

That's easy, when I went to college in pitt, our first day they took us up to the top of the building and pointed off "Look in that direction, see every thing across the river on that side of town? Don't go there." Then they turned to the other direction "See every thing on that side across that river? Don't go there alone." Which made it fun because I lived in the middle of the area they told us never to go in.

Find some one know knows pitt and they'll show you alot of fun stuff. The con gives us a map with hot spots usually. If you want some thing, head up the road into the dock area and there's lots of shops and stuff. Used to be the black market was there too when I went to college some years ago but its not that any more... no fun. Not sure what else you'd call a abandoned looking warehouse with tables inside covered in watches and radios with no price tags.

But wait, we're driving all that way and spending all that money to go to a furry con right? Why are you leaving the hotel?

I would recommend Primanti brothers ! They have 2 locations close to the convention center. On that is open 24 hours in the strip district not far from the convention center to the northeast.
and another by market square down by the point state park that is open late like 11pm or so. www.primantibrothers.com

theres also an Italian place thats very good http://www.montecellos.com/pittsburgh.html I have eaten many times at the Sewickley location up the river to the northwest of the downtown.

I wanted to chime in and also mention to avoid that McDonald's. I was down in Pittsburgh several months ago to see a show at the Benedum Center and while we were eating, there seemed to be a lot of traffic in and out of the men's room.
It was very suspicious and none of them ordered food. (This was roughly around 4pm also, mind you, so I assume the activity was probably worse later in the night.)

Two males also got into an argument in front of the place and continued it inside.

Add on to that, the floors and tables were filthy.

Places I will definitely recommend going to:

Steel City Diner* (very affordable and the food is yumtastic) I even spilled my drink all over the table and my friends and the waitress didn't tear my head off. She did threaten to give me a sippy cup though....

The sub shop less than a block away from the Westin on the same street as the SCD*. (Delicious subs and they had a special deal going on last year.)

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