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Sunday Night Pot Roast at Pittsburgh Blue

Filed under: Food

Sunday nights can be slow in the restaurant business, so it's not a bad time to play around and try out some recurring, customer-building, weekly specials.

Few places in the area have approached the dead zone/opportunity with as much smarts and moxie as Pittsburgh Blue, the relatively new Parasole property out in Maple Grove.

For $8.95 — an amount fractional in terms of the restaurant's other offerings — you can get a share of a table-sized helping of old-school pot roast (two people are needed for a minimum order, and it scales up as needed). It's not much more than a humble cut of beef stewed until forkably tender and served up with carrots, potatoes and small (possibly Bermuda?) onions.

Covered in pan gravy, impeccably seasoned, lip-smackingly moist and flavorful; this is old-school home cooking, available, surprisingly and affordably, at an upscale concept restaurant. The craziest thing is that while the name suggests a load of heavy food, the actual portion sizes are modest and reasonable. The stuff sticks to your ribs, but doesn't bust a gut.

Posted by James Norton at March 31, 2008 10:05 PM

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A few of the other Parasole restaurants are running similar deals. Here's the info if anyone wants to try them and compare:

Salut in Edina is doing Sunday Slider Night--$8.95 for two mini burgers and a pile of fries. They throw in an extra burger for every two guests, so a table of two would get 5 of 'em.

Figlio in Uptown is serving $8.95 lasagna Sunday nights--there's a two person minimum, but, again they throw in an extra piece for every two guests.

Posted by: RH at April 1, 2008 3:13 PM

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