Bar Symon

I should have gone with my standard TGIF. The tomato soup tasted more like a tomato sauce. It took me a little bit to figure out what the ground pork Mac n cheese tasted like. Then it hit me… a can of Chef Boyardee Macaroni and Meat Sauce. Tomato sauce was so greasy. The ground pork taste like ground beef. I was extremely disappointed. I normally give a place a second chance but I won’t be going back here.

Last time I was flying out of here I wanted to try it. It’s got to be awesome if Chef Symon has his name on it.
Ordered the biscuits and gravy
The plating was decent, a little skimpy on the gravy and the eggs and bacon were both overlooked. But good flavor and compared to most airport food priced right and overall good but not great. I just had a little higher expectation, I’ll give it another try next month when I am back.
The menu looks good and was given the opportunity to have either breakfast or lunch. The staff were helpful although when I arrived I was expecting to be greeted by a hostess but wound up showing myself to a seat and they caught up with me.
I would say to give them a shot and I will try it again next time but was hoping for that perfect first impression.

I am a really big fan of Michael Symon so I was excited to try his restaurant. I opted for the grilled cheese and fries. I wasn’t in the mood for a burger and I didn’t see anything else on the menu that I wanted at the time. The grilled cheese was fancy it had a good bread selection it had red peppers and arugula on it. I am not a big beer fan so I opted for an Anger Orchard. The service was good but I wasn’t really impressed with the food selection. I heard the breakfast is amazing so the next time I am in Pittsburgh I will try that instead.

I grade airport restaurants on a serious curve. compared with adjacent alternatives like McDonalds and Friday’s, this place is James Beard worthy. the uniqueness of the menu justifies the $ 2-​$ 4 per meal premium you’re paying. if you want cheap, the Golden Arches are right across the terminal. if you want genuine gourmet, eat on the way.
I tried the Pittsburgher sandwich. it was a taste of the region — smoked kielbasa, pierogi (sort of a polish ravioli stuffed with potato and cheese) and sauerkraut with a side of rosemary fries — $ 15ish. get it to go and grab a bottle of Turner tea from the cooler in Rite Aid — another taste of the area. and try the Sarris chocolate covered pretzels when you’re there. I swear they put crack in those things…
even if you don’t like it, at least you tried something you won’t find anywhere else.

A little $$ but love the option to get hot breakfast for takeaway. Love the egg white sandwich.

I don’t think I will be eating anywhere else in the Pittsburgh airport. Good breakfast with timely service and coffee refills in the bar area.

Exceeded my expectations for airport bar food. This will be my go-​to place when passing through Pittsburgh airport. I even ate all the coleslaw, and who does that!

While I enjoyed my meal, it probably deserves more than 3 stars, but not 4 stars, so 3 it is. Service was OK. Staff was not friendly and on their phones way to much. I had the Fat Doug Burger w/​pastrami, swiss cheese, creamy coleslaw and some top notch stadium mustard… a good mustard that is hard to find in this area. The burger was cooked perfectly and was very good, nice combo of flavors, good pastrami and swiss cheese. Had a side of the Lola fries which were good but similar to many places with the rosemary seasoning. It is a real good spot in the airport but again the competition in the airport is moot.

We stopped here for dinner before our flight. The food was decent for airport food. It was overpriced because of location. It reminded me of TGI Friday/​Ruby Tuesday. I expected better from one of my favorite Iron Chef!

We all know that airport food is overpriced, but this place is good. Would have personally like a bit less past and a bit more feta, but the Mac & Cheese with ground lamb is good. Fries perfectly cooked, and Parmesan + Rosemary topping a great compliment. Decent beer selection, both on tap and in bottles, with a full bar. Helpful, friendly staff. Garage décor and staff in grease monkey garb a bit of a stretch. However, next time I have to find food at this airport it’s good to know that there’s at least one place that is good and out of the ordinary.

Eh, had an early arrival at the airport and a few hours to spare. We were planning on grabbing some breakfast food, and we came across Bar Symon. For anyone that knows me, I’m a huge Food Network fan and Mike Symon is by far one of my favorite chefs on there. So I wanted to give this restaurant a try.
The menu was interesting and small for breakfast so the choices weren’t hard to make at all. Our waitress asked me what type of egg I wanted since it was «any style» so I asked for poached. She immediately said «we don’t do poached.» So maybe that should be specified a little better. The service was terrible, after our waitress first rushed us through our order — never once asked us how our meal was — not once asked us if we wanted a refill for our $ 3 a piece free refill drinks and just threw the bill on our table never asking us if our order was complete. One of the most horrible servers I can ever remember having.
The food was good though, aside from my spoonful amount of home fries and lack of enough butter and jam to get even on half one side of my English muffin. Extremely pricey breakfast for the amount. My fiancé got eggs with biscuits and gravy — you’d think there’d be sausage like normal biscuits and gravy — not here.
I liked the ambience of the restaurant — the décor was unusual and modern and interesting — but the chairs weren’t comfortable — hard wood.
I would eat here again to give it another try because it wasn’t the food that was bad– but make sure I get a different waitress because I didn’t see any other server that day be as rude as ours was. So maybe it would’ve made my experience a little better had that been the case.

I came here for breakfast. There are plenty of outlets for charging your phone at your table and the service is quick, which is great for an airport restaurant when people are needing to get out and go.
The food was really good, too. I wanted to order the pulled pork burrito because it sounded pretty interesting but the waiter was nice enough to wince and give me that look like «uh maybe go with something else.» So instead I ordered the omelette, which was stuffed with bacon (thick cut!), tomatoes, avocado, and arugula and then I added feta since it oddly doesn’t come with cheese already. The feta was a great addition that the waiter suggested, no extra charge. The omelette came with tasty rosemary, Parmesan home fries (country breakfast potatoes) and your choice of toast.
It’s owned by Michael Symon from The Chew and famous James Beard award winner. Pretty cool. Overall, it was a good breakfast experience for an airport restaurant.

Not bad, not bad! Bar seating has ample power outlets, and the restaurant has free wifi.
I loved the Rosemary Fries that everyone raved about, and I just got a plain Cheeseburger. The bun was a little stale, but they buttered it up and grilled it, so it was fine. For the burger, you get two choices: «pink» or «no pink.» I ordered «pink,» and it was cooked OK– the burger had good flavor.
The reason I can’t give it 4 stars is that if I have to eat at the airport, I wouldn’t make a sure beeline to Symon, with TGIs next to it. The burger was good, but not sure the price was justified with all items a la carte. TGIs also has more options.

Four stars based on the airport options only.
Very meat and fried food centric.
Loud.
Good attentive service.
Outside of an airport its a 3 at best.
Not your best representation of an Iron Chef and his cuisine.

This place is good when you’re waiting for a flight. I had the Greek yogurt. It was very good (although it was the most expensive yogurt I ever had.). It had a tasty granola, honey on the bottom, and fresh black berries, raspberries, and blue berries.

This is my second time eating here before a flight at PIT. The service is good and the lunch/​dinner menu has a great selection of burgers. On the table they have some tasty BBQ sauces. When I had breakfast on this recent trip I ordered the pulled pork egg burrito. Someone from the kitchen delivered it to me and suggested I try it with the coffee BBQ sauce. Good call.
They also have their own free wifi for you to use while dining here.

Stopped in here after my flight landed from DC as I was not sure what I would find at my nearby hotel in terms of dining options. Since it was just me, I opted to sit at the bar and was promptly greeted and welcomed by Tee. They have at least eight beers on tap albeit most of them are IPAs as pointed out by a non IPA lover at the bar. I picked one anyway with an interesting handle as I don’t usually get an IPA nor am familiar with too many of them. It worked out well when paired with the french onion burger I ordered. This was one messy but tasty burger with fried onion bits serverd with it. In lieu of fries, I opted for a house salad that had a tasty Italian dressing. Everything was fresh and delicious. I was a little shocked by the price of my $ 10.59 20oz beer though once the bill came and should have inquired up front about prices.

Here I sit drinking a fine Kraft beer enjoying the atmosphere and food. For starters I had the Tomato & Blue Cheeses soup. This is very thick and chunky, not creamy. Kind of like spaghetti sauce. My taste would have preferred more blue cheese and cream. It was tasty but not my preference. The server called it «bisque like». But I disagreed, it is up to the chef to interpret the meaning of bisque.
Hello Mac & Cheese! So many choices, so little time. I went with the pulled pork +jalepinos. Add their coffee BBQ and holy crap — home run!!!
Some many things I wanted, Lola fries, fried bologna sandwich —- a few different burgers — so much!!! Much better change from my PITT stop across at TGIF.
By the way ALL the staff is 5 star.

Nothing special, but definitely beats the usual McDonalds/​Subway/​Quiznos nonsense and TGIF, the other main «bar» option at the airport.
Good beer selection for an airport bar. They had my beloved Headhunter and a handful of other decent craft beers on tap.
Had the parmesan rosemary fries which were very mediocre. The parmesan was kind of mealy and dry, not melted into the fries which I have come to expect from cheesy fries and would have been much better.
I will come back for beer the next time, but I’ll probably just head to Pinkberry for sustenance.

I’m never a sucker for advertisements, but my flight was delayed, and I saw an ad saying that this place had «the best burger» so we stopped by.
I got an order of their macaroni with tomatoes and beef. It was a large portion and comforting and filling, with melted cheese on top. Nothing particularly great about the dish but it’s what I was craving at the time!
My husband got their burger with cheese and bacon. It was too big and overwhelming and I didn’t think it was that great. The burgers don’t come with fries so that was annoying, you had to order them separately if you wanted them.
This place is a typical casual airport eatery, don’t be fooled there’s an Iron Chef promoting it!