So, I work on the radio and I drive EVERYWHERE from gig to gig. When I drive down Rt 51, I make it a point to leave myself "enough time" to stop & eat at Tavern 51. Want a steak hoagie that isn't steak em's? You're in luck, I ordered mine medium rare and it was! I went local the last time I was there and had perogies. They were exactly what I expected in Pittsburgh, great! The only reason they get 4 outta 5 is; although they list the kitchen hours as:
Mon. - Thu. 11:30am til 10:00pm
Friday 11:30am til 11:00pm
Saturday 4:00pm til 11:00pm
Twice I've arrived mid-afternoon and had to wait for the cook to arrive.
PS. I think the cook & afternoon bartender may be husband & wife (maybe the owners), but that's speculation....
They NOW accept credit cards, but NOT Discover.
Last, but not least in my book... They serve COKE!
Jack & Diet Coke is a 1000 times better than Jack & Diet Pepsi!
Nuff said!
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My wife and I decided to stop in for a quick bite and were very pleased with our meal. Â Unless there is a back room that I didn't notice, this is a small place, with only 6 or so tables and a bar, but the food was very good. Â My wife had a burger and I had a steak sandwich. Â Each was cooked to order and came with a side of house-made chips. Â I was pleased that the steak was actual steak and not processed minute steaks. Â They do accept credit cards and the staff was very friendly. Â It is a good neighborhood tavern and we will be back.
Review Source:Excellent food and what a value! Â My wife and I stopped by after a local community meeting at the Whitehall municipal building. Â In true Yinzer fashion we ordered pierogies as our appetizer. Â They are sauteed in butter and delicious. Â My wife ordered the steak sandwich and was pleasantly suprised by how tender the meat was because it was a flat iron style, not shredded like a Philly Cheese Steak. Â I ordered the orzo pasta in a homemade chicken broth and it was excellent. Â This chef has taken comfort food to the next level!
Contrary to some reports, Tavern 51 accepts credit cards (Visa or Mastercard) now. Â This is quite a find. Â My wife and I ate for under $50 including tip and two glasses of wine.
Wife met some friends there & got me some take out because I was still working. Got the Italian hoagie. If you like burnt bread saturated with Italian dressing, this is right up your alley. Homemade potato chips were stale, & I'm still trying to figure out how they screwed up the pickle.
Glad they have a full service bar, because you'd have to be stone stinking drunk to eat there.
The storefront is unassuming  Walked in.  It is clean.  "mom" runs the bar.  She quickly serves me a yuengling black and tan.  It is quiet but big enough to accommodate a rowdy Steelers crowd.  I order a bacon wrapped pretzel.  The man next to me receives three bags of food and finishes his glass of Chardonnay. There is a menu for martinis, and a rack of domestic beer like Pittsburgh's own Red Eye and The Duke.  Other local lites are available.  No Stella, but you can get Spaten.  It's a Steelers bar with top shelf vodka.  Bacon wrapped anything is awesome.  Can't wait.
Review Source:Tavern 51 is a very warm neighborhood restaurnat and Bar. The Fish Sandwich is awesome  on Friday's  very large but very light.  I love the stuffed pretzel with cheese wrapped in bacon, Yummo! Another favorite is the rosetto poppers , so creamy and spicey, delicious!  My daughter really enjoyed the zuchinni parm on the app list, some of the very best she ever tasted .
The owners and staff  are very friendly and just good people to be around. So people if you get the chance give them a try.
Small bar / eatery, family owned. Â Cash only. Â Really nice people. Â Doing something different with their menu. Â Had a flat iron steak special that looked good, but we honestly never made it past the appetizer menu.
Was going to get a steak sandwich which the people next to me at the bar were eating, but we ended up with the rice poppers - risotto with finely minced jalapeno then fried. Â Even the ranch that it's served with works. Â Cheesy, crispy, creamy goodness, hits all the right notes. Â I think it demands pancetta or bacon, but then everything does.
The bacon wrapped pretzel log with cheese was just OK for me, but my brother liked it. Â The mustard it was served with wasn't overpowering, which is often a problem.
Finally, stuffed banana (frying) peppers with tomato sauce. Â A great ground beef with cheese another layer of gooey mozzarella and some parmesan on top, broiled and covered in a nice light tomato sauce. Â Really excellent.
Sounds strange, but with the exception of the pretzel, reminded me of the kind of food I got in Rome at bars there. Â Do yourself a favor and check this place out.
Note 1: CASH ONLY. You'll see an ATM inside as you walk in.
Note 2: Their kitchen closes an hour to an hour and a half prior to the listed closing time.
On Friday evening (the 10th), I found myself with some money (payday!) and in the car of my ladyfriend who picked me up from work and reluctantly agreed to eat here before she whisked me away to her place wayyyy out in the boonies. Yes, I was kidnapped. Sorta.
This unassuming place (it looks like a renovated home and have no idea how long its been here as it took a while for me to notice it), is as noisy as Kaib's in Mt. Washington! Man, the neighborhood locals (mostly people in their 40's-50's this trip) were feelin' good and loud on a Friday night. Big screen TV's showed college football games with people ooohing, ahhhing, and essentially whoopin' it up.
Now because it is somewhat rowdy, it may not be the kind of place you want to go to, but if you choose not to go, you'll be missing out on some dandy food.
They mostly serve typical bar fare; burgers, sandwiches, wings, apps, but Tavern 51 also offers more upscale items like Chicken Marsala, Vegetable Orzo, Pepper Encrusted Salmon, and Shrimp Scampi (!), all prepared by the mysterious Chef Tom.
Darren the Burger Slayer advanced his campaign.
Their 8oz. Black Angus Burger, served with the best homemade potato chips I've had to date, and a pale-on-the-inside, crunchy, cold dill pickle (which means it ruled) , was more than a match for my appetite. However, I felled the ground beefbeast like Tessaro's and Cheeburger Cheeburger's before. It's hearty, charred, and pretty much checks off the boxes in terms of burger quality control. It was just what I needed to finish my week. Please, golf claps are in order for this fine specimen of burgerdom. You won't be left wanting.
I tasted my date's BBQ Salmon Salad and began to regret my life's vocation as hunter and killer of burgers because it was that tasty. The salmon might as well have been ice cream, because you guessed it, it melted in my mouth (how many ways can you say it?). Â The viniagrette it was dressed with took me to Heaven faster than a...
Whoa! Let's keep it PG.
How could I forget our pre-meal munchie? They call it the Cheesy Bacon Pretzel Stick, which is a phat Sahs Syde-style doughrod that is stuffed with cheddar cheese and bound in bacon. Horseradish mustard is supplied for dipping, but this newfangled thing really didn't need it. They split it in two for us. Awww. Or as Pittsburgh girls say, "Oooohawwww." Ya gotta hear 'em say it.
We shared a slice of apple pie, which they get from Signature Desserts in Castle Shannon according to the waitress. That's usually their only dessert offering, but we were told that they sometimes have homemade cheesecake on their menu.
More than decent food + good service (from the excellent Renee)=A place you need to keep an eye out for if you're ever on Clairton Blvd. The menu keeps it from being just another dive bar. Raise a pint for Chef Tom, whoever he is.
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