After getting a strong recommendation for Reynolds on Bryant from a neighbor at the HPCC meeting, seven of us went for dinner this week. What a treat! We all ordered different entrees, including one vegetarian, and everyone gave rave reviews. The salads were interesting and nice-sized. The entrees had interesting touches. I ordered salmon with a little melted goat cheese on top (a terrific touch) and roasted red peppers. This was one of the best salmon dishes I have tasted anywhere. The deserts were excellent and interesting. Chef Rey's five year experience cooking on a major cruise ship really shows. And we got to take our own wine instead of paying the usual triple cost at most restaurants. Not including desert, meals averaged $18 ( half what Shadyside charges).

I don't believe we should go to businesses on Bryant St. just because they are there. BUT once they have earned my business, then I think they deserve our support. This is the restaurant, within a walk or a three minute drive and no parking charge, that Highland Park has been asking for, for the last 25 years.

And to the couple who left in a huff because they wanted to eat, not in the dining room, but in a smaller room devoted to private parties on a different floor--and then drove to Shadyside--and then took the time to disparage a new restaurant when they had not even eaten there-- I say you missed an excellent meal at a bargain price right in our neighborhood.