Diners' Choice: Best Ambiance restaurants in Pittsburgh

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Updated September 05, 2024

Looking for restaurants with the best ambiance in Pittsburgh? You’re in the right place. Each month, OpenTable analyzes nearly 2 million global diner reviews from the past four months. We sort the results by location and category to help you discover new favorite restaurants. It's a great partnership: you reserve, eat, and review. We listen...and deliver the results for all to benefit. Enjoy!

TreeTops Restaurant

4.8

4.8 (1923)

$50 and over

Contemporary American

Acme

About the restaurant

Award Winning Destination Dining Experiences. Discover the Height of Exceptional Cuisine in the Laurel Highlands. Dining enriched with Nature in a Frank Lloyd Wright inspired setting. Deck Dining, Acoustic Entertainment, Remarkable Entree's.

Top review

Caroline

Dined 6 days ago

Our 5 course meal was superb! The courses were delicious, attractively presented, generous and well-paced. Our server was also excellent. We opted to dine indoors in the dining room and felt like we were in the trees since there were windows all around us. I highly recommend this restaurant for a memorable dining experience.

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Experience

TreeHouse Dining Pod - Twilight Dinner

Experience

TreeHouse Dining Pods- Lunch

Experience

TreeHouse Dining Pods- Dayspring Brunch

Mary's Vine

4.8

4.8 (710)

$30 and under

Wine Bar

Homestead

About the restaurant

Our wine lounge is a perfect meeting place to celebrate a special occasion, meet up with friends, date night, or out with another couple. Come enjoy a glass of wine or a classic cocktail, partake of some amazing food that is fun to share! We are a 21 and over establishment.

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Ben

Dined 4 days ago

The food and wine that we had were delicious. We started with the meat/cheese board and the homemade focaccia, split a vegetable salad and finished with the salmon entree. Each coarse was very good and we can’t wait to get the salmon again, it was exceptional. We chose a wine flight and then each had an additional glass. The prices are on the higher side, but there plenty of mix and match options. There is nothing quite like this in our area and the service and ambiance make for an enjoyable evening.

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4.8

4.8 (6239)

$50 and over

Contemporary American

Mt. Washington

About the restaurant

As Executive Chef & Partner of Altius, Jessica Bauer's approach to contemporary American cuisine is refined and modern with a respect for the integrity and quality of her ingredient driven menu. Your first visit may be for the view, but you will return again and again to enjoy one of Pittsburgh’s best premiere fine dining experiences. With modern surroundings, higher hospitality and an organic and sustainable wine menu, every part of your experience has been thought of and designed with care.

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OpenTable Diner

Dined 2 days ago

We had an amazing anniversary dinner here. I have celiac and am gluten free and they were very careful and knowledgeable. The food was delicious. The attention to detail was superb. Staff was also great. Wine list was amazing. Pricy and totally worth it. We will be back!

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Popular dish

Chilean Seabass

Popular dish

Heritage Breed Tomahawk Pork Chop

Popular dish

Chilled Oysters

Gi-Jin

4.9

4.9 (837)

$50 and over

Japanese

Downtown

About the restaurant

Gi-Jin is a gin and raw bar that re-imagines the sushi experience where we marry global ingredients with traditional Japanese flavors to create inspired combinations of color, technique, and style.

Our intimate space operates on a reservation-only basis for parties of
no more than FOUR (4) people per table and ONE/TWO per seating at our counter.
Online reservations are always open with real-time availability.
Each reservation seating is designated 2 hours per booking.

We do not allow any outside alcohol. if you have a request for a specific beverage please email info@gijinpgh.com prior to your visit and we will try our best to bring it in!

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Jamaal

Dined 6 days ago

Experience was amazing! Food was great! Our server Nimra was awesome as well with all types of recommendations and plenty of laughs. All in all a 10 out of 10 experience. Thanks again

Umi Japanese Restaurant

5.0

5 (698)

$50 and over

Japanese

Shadyside

About the restaurant

With every detail considered and every arrangement intended, Umi exists to please with gentle perfection. Perfectly fresh fish is prepared in an elegantly and understated manner. Traditional Japanese decor reflects the ancient art of sushi while lively music and contemporary service align with the modern and masterful preparation of the plates. Climb the steps for an exquisitely refined journey.

Umi is located directly upstairs from Soba in Shadyside.

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Vincent

Dined 5 days ago

The food was good but the 11 course meal was mainly sashimi and I like rolls and nigiri more. The price is super high for the value in my opinion and a lot of other places that I prefer. Food was good but not worth the money in my opinion.

Monterey Bay Fish Grotto - Mt. Washington

4.8

4.8 (8457)

$31 to $50

Seafood

Mt. Washington

About the restaurant

Thank you for considering Monterey Bay Fish Grotto. This award-winning restaurant has always taken pride in its level of standards and excellence. These exceptional standards are reflected in the mouth-watering fresh fish and impeccable service. Guests have come to expect this level of quality in every aspect of the main dining room as well as the private dining room.

Monterey Bay Fish Grotto's fish is fresh and flown in from a number of locations on the East Coast, West Coast and Hawaiian Islands. For this reason, we are the regions Premier Fresh Fish Restaurant offering 20 kinds of fresh fish in an array of original, delicious styles.

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Julie

Dined 2 days ago

We came here for our anniversary and it was by far one of the the best experiences we’ve had in the Pittsburgh area!

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Eddie V's - Pittsburgh

4.9

4.9 (3687)

$50 and over

Seafood

Downtown

About the restaurant

Eddie V's Prime Seafood is a luxury dining destination known for the seafood flown in from pristine waters around the world, as well as its premium hand-carved steaks. Dishes are artistically prepared and feature an ever-changing array of seasonal seafood, along with critically acclaimed prime center-cut steaks broiled to perfection. The restaurant's award-wining wine list, which has been recognized by Wine Spectator, has more than 300 wines curated by Eddie V's very own Advanced Sommelier. In the V Lounge, guests can sip classic and creative cocktails, and enjoy signature appetizers against a backdrop of live music trios.

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Donvip

Dined 4 days ago

Server Ron (the face of the front of house) makes the EV’s experience the experience we expect.

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4.9

4.9 (625)

$31 to $50

American

Downtown

About the restaurant

We believe that hospitality comes from optimism, compassion, and trust.
By fostering a culture that values collaboration and encouragement, we make it possible to take chances and grow, and to have hospitality be an expression of who we are.
The resulting offerings are carefully crafted food and beverage, and a welcome that passes our care for each other and our profession on to our guests.

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Kimvip

Dined 4 days ago

Great date night choice. The ambience is classy but unfussy. Really attentive service. All of the food we ordered was very good, but the creative and excellently crafted drinks here were really the star of the show. Someone commented on the "aggressively salted" ice cream in a review - I found it to be sweet and salty perfection.

Napa Prime Chophouse

4.9

4.9 (2253)

$31 to $50

Steakhouse

Warrendale

About the restaurant

Napa Prime Chophouse is the traditional steakhouse with an innovative cuisine twist for today's astute diners.
"Rustic Chic" - combining Northwest High Plateau USDA Prime Beef with the grace of Napa Valley vineyards.

We feature 1855 ranch's beef along with an in-house Himalayan Sea Salt Dry Age locker sets Napa Prime Chophouse apart.

Award-winning wine list, Private wine lockers, Ultra Premium Wine by the Glass List that adjoins a Cigar and luxury spirits lounge.

Restauranteur's, Glenn & Lisa Hawley after successfully opening Off The Hook - a Premium Fresh Fish concept over 5 years ago are adding a Premium Steak House to their portfolio. In combination with long-time Executive Chef, Sean Karpuzi, the focus to bring single ranch premium beef with authentic dining experience is realized.

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Ignacio

Dined 3 days ago

Amazing experience. Amazing food. Everything was perfect.

Pino's Contemporary Italian Restaurant & Wine Bar

4.9

4.9 (1178)

$31 to $50

Italian

Point Breeze

About the restaurant

Welcome to Pino's Contemporary Italian Restaurant & Wine Bar!
Pino's is a small neighborhood eatery tucked away in Pittsburgh's popular East End neighborhood of Point Breeze. You will often find regulars from the neighborhood and new guests enjoying dinner and drinks. With a warm decor of Italian mosaic tabletops, rich woods and colors, Pino's is a welcoming spot where Executive Chef & Owner Joseph "Pino" Mico proves there's more to Italian cuisine than just red sauce. Here you will find a merging of creative interpretations of the Italian classics as well as Mediterranean cuisine that is thoughtful and complex. Please be sure to view our most current menu offering on our website at : www.chefpino.com

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Jennifervip

Dined 5 days ago

My husband and I visited for the first time it's a suggestion and with our daughter and her family to celebrate my daughter's birthday. The entire experience was highly successful. The menu is varied and impressive. The food was delicious from the appetizers to the main course. The cocktail choices were very good to include nonalcoholic ones. I absolutely loved cioppino and this was the best I've ever, to include a dish I had in San Francisco. My husband, enjoyed the Bronzino stuffed with risotto. My son-in-law brought a birthday cake which they served very elegantly. Can't wait to go back. The only regret I have is that they could not accompany a table of five and they're outside patio, but they did see us near the open front part of the restaurant

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Popular dish

Fried Calamari

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