Alex

Ippudo NY / 65 4th Ave.

hirata pork buns
akamaru modern ramen with kakuni
matcha bruleé

Pittsburgh

Having stayed up until 5 or 6 in the morning for no apparent reason, everyone in the room woke up around 3 in the afternoon.  We ate at Panera (I so did not travel to Pittsburgh just to have Panera — nonetheless, I’ll take a soup & sandwich any day).

Pretty fun discussion over late night dinner at Eaton Park (home of “Fake Big Macs”) and then mega-games of Sardines in the Gates Building at Carnegie Mellon.  Eddy & Prakash dropped me off at the airport around 5AM & thanks to free wi-fi, I’m having an easier time staying up for my flight to New York.

Pittsburgh? 10 stars (with & without the CMU scale), far from “standard,” and more fun than I’d imagined it to be.

In summary, a “cheese shop job.”