Pistachio Bar & Grille

10/20/09

Desserts to Die for!

by wak at Citysearch

From the Key Lime pie to the Chocolate cake, the portions are huge! Enough to share with another person or to eat some there and take the rest home. I have been here a handful of times just to eat dessert and I end up getting something different each time because each option is better than the next!

• Pros: Large Portions!
• Cons: A little cold inside.

10/02/09

Happy Hour

by adam m at Citysearch

I went back to Pistachios recently and found a new watering hole. This place now has not only a happy hour everyday of the week but it now has something i have never heard of. A reverse happy hour on friday and saturday nights from 10pm till midnight. Me and my friends thought we were going out for a drink and decided to make a night out of it. These happy hours could be one of the best kept secrets in the valley.

• Pros: Open space and atmosphere
• Cons: Acoustics

07/24/09

We tried again but...

by HVitae at Citysearch

Let's just say the food is good. Nice. Ok. Husband and I ordered a few Thai entrees. Drinks were nice. . BUT...

As we waited, some tables were offered artisan bread with olive oil dipping, others (read: "ours") was not. We had our drinks, our entrees. Waitress came to ask how everything was. I asked of her, "How do you, as a server, decide which tables GET bread and which do not?" (An issue my husband and I had a few times before!) She looked a bit nervous and responded, "Oh you just have to ask for some bread. Do you want some???" To which I responded, "No, we are done with our meal now!" She next said, "Sooo many people are on low carb diets and such!" I responded, "Huh!"

Not a good practice to treat different tables differently. It sets up a very bad dynamic. Our food was good, yet given the service issues, over-priced. If everything was even, table to table, we'd have left relatively happy customers.

PISTACHIO, get your act together! This is not the first time, as Allentown residents, we've felt this crazy, indiscriminate treatment. Offer ALL TABLES bread. Treat all customers exactly the same.

You're business will prosper because of it.

• Pros: Food is pretty good!
• Cons: Service is not consistent table to table