Skyvue

We’ve dined here twice recently. While there isn’t a great deal of ambiance, the food is very good. We were using a discount dining card so we could not order the specials but the menu items were more than adequate. The entrees come with soup or salad, vegetable of the day plus another side — quite a lot to eat! The wait staff was pleasant and helpful on both occasions. There was a bit of wait for the meals on our second visit but nothing too long. We plan to dine here again.

I was very skeptical when the hotel we were staying at recommended this place. We arrived at 8:30 in the evening on a Friday. Walking into the dining room it reminded me of a room a wedding would be held in. Don’t let that put you off.
I ordered Pasta Diablo and my wife a steak. I read that service was slow but this wasn’t the case with our server, a young, thin, rather tall young lady with a sense of humor.
The food was excellent. The pasta was loaded with chunks of chicken and was spicy as advertised… and as I like. The peppers on top were perfect neither under or over cooked.
My wife’s steak was fork tender and very delicious. She also had a baked potato that she claimed was the best that she had had in a long time. I would definitely go back there when in the area again.

Great food option within walking distance of holiday inn. The service and hospitality was excellent. The food far exceeded my expectations, with a home cooked feel and high quality restaurant preparation and presentation for what I expected. The fried ice cream stood out with our desserts. Would go back for sure.

Food was good and reasonable. Bartender was great. We’ll be back!

Back in the day…1999 and earlier this place was a great place to visit. good times, good friends, good food. However, I think it is worn out… location is bad, food not that great, the management is a disaster. not a fan favorite. As with this restaurant or any restaurant prior to visiting, please go to Allegheny county Health Department for inspection reports.
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Might be some of the worst service I have ever experienced. Large party, maybe 40 people. Two waitresses. Empty drinks, over and hour for appetizers (cold vegetable trays ordered weeks in advance). Our family and friends were walking around with pitchers refilling drinks. The wait staff and the owners were both rude and inappropriate. Never again. This restaurant is not what it used to be.

I don’t often feel the need to update reviews but alas I am compelled. I came here last Saturday with Bry and the boy. Walking in it was smokey. Maybe the ventilation in the kitchen wasn’t working right. Anyways we were seated right away and our waitress showed up and took our drink orders. After she returned with our drinks we were ready to order. I went with the coconut crusted mahi mahi and the boy got a cheeseburger.
This is where the issues start. So I checked in right after ordering. So 20 min go by and our waitress is nowhere to be seen. My water is empty and my easily served soup is also nowhere to be found along with the table bread. Bry and I are looking at each other like did she leave? Several min later Bryan’s soup comes out which is weird because he ordered French onion which goes under a broiler to melt the cheese on top and I ordered a house soup that only had to be put into a bowl. Well 5 min later my soup and the house bread come out. The waitress refills drinks finally as well. The food here has never disappointed and the soup was no exception. Once done with soup we waited and waited. Finally our waitress comes over and says she’s so sorry and the kitchen is backed up and asks if there’s anything she could get us. So I say yes a Moscow mule. My favorite drink at the moment. Well 15 min later after my son has asked any waitress walking by where his food is. Finally a server showed up with our food. I ask about my drink and she says let me check. 10 more min go by before our waitress shows up and asks how everything is. The food is great but where’s my drink. A few min later she comes back and says they are out of ginger beer. Great so I’ve been waiting 30 min for a drink that you can’t make. So I said I’ll have an appletini. By the time my drink came out I was already done with my meal and ready to go home. So I pounded the drink and asked for the check. Well check was full price they didn’t even take my drink off. So a meal that maybe should have been an hour lasted 2 hours with horrible service and a slow kitchen. I do like the food here. It’s fresh and it’s very good I just can’t get over the horrible service and the wait.

Have driven by here for years, finally decided to try it a year or so ago. Pleasantly surprised. Been back a half dozen times. Food is always quite good, service can be hit or miss — never bad, just sometimes slow. The other night there were new waiters right on top of things. Place is nicely decorated, and even the kitchen is spotlessly clean. Have kept this on my list and have crossed off a couple of my usual chain places with mass prepared food in favor of freshly made meals here. Give it a try!

Great local place! Nice Change from a chain restaurant. Friendly staff and great home made food

Quiet semi-​formal place for a good meal.

Five stars because for what this place is it’s perfect. No, the steak isn’t like Ruth’s Cris, but it’s priced fairly and the beer taps are cold. Nice people and clean too. Come here get a big pasta dish or a steak and a beer and be happy. Neighborhood restaurant and bar with warm and welcoming staff. Sit at the bar and be a local if only for a night. Our hotel recommended Skyvue and glad they did. Not pretentious or stuffy. Just good and reliable. Perfect place to take refuge from the cold winds and rain.

From the beginning dealing with this place was a disaster however, being as though we had booked it for a bridal shower, sent out invites & the whole 9 yards we decided to stick it out. Before I knock the customer service & the «planner» (hardly) Debbi morrow I will say the food was excellent & the place is updated & clean. The food & the atmosphere will not be enough to make me come back. Debbi had repeatedly not returned phone calls, everyone working there gave different information regarding questions about seating, how food would be served, linens, You name it. I won’t even begin to say what a disaster the shower was & the how the «planner» sat at the bar the whole time with her husband or whoever the other owner is. Debbi, you ruined our experience & made a joke of your restaurant when they heard you screaming from the bar area. Needless to say I will never, ever come back & I’m sure I can speak for the other shower guests when I say they won’t either. Maybe this place needs to rethink there «planning» staff.

This place is really good. First, the atmosphere inside is very nice. It’s right across from the Allegheny County Airport, so of course the place has model airplanes, airplane pictures, and other neat stuff like that tactfully place throughout.
The food is worth the visit. I had a steak, garlic potatoes, and veggies… cooked to perfection. My wife had chicken parm which she liked a lot (it wasn’t Jioio’s, but very tasty).
Try this place. Yinz will love it!

Pleasantly surprised to say the least. Looked dismal from the outside but the food is excellent. Sword fish is grilled perfectly. I firmly recommend.

Total surprise… Was staying in the area and was recommended by the hotel staff.
Really nice wait staff, and had a really good meal (pasta angel hair diablo chicken) with a Caesar salad. Fair prices as well. Good stuff

Stopped in for lunch after a soccer game. Not being from the area, we checked the Unilocal ap and this great little place popped up. We were seated in the bar because of a private party, and ended up having a great time. The staff was warm and friendly. The food was incredible. The owner came over several times and chatted up our son, she even gave him a Halloween swag bag.
The french onion soup was really good. A good slab of bread covered in lots of gooey cheese with a rich beef broth. The wedding soup had plenty of meatballs, that were really really good. Our son had a bacon cheeseburger, perfectly cooked with crisp bacon. The chicken quesadilla is large enough to share and filled edge to edge with well seasoned chicken and peppers. The crab stuffed mushroom had a lot of lump crab and very little filler.
Our drinks were always full, and plates cleared promptly. The food was reasonably priced, and not over salted. The restaurant is spotless. The other patrons were really friendly, and everyone chatted back and forth. It was a nice place to hang out for a while. Wish we lived closer, but we usually have 4 or 5 games a year in the area, so we’ll definitely be back

Darren had been dying to come here for some reason. It’s near the Wal-​Mart we go to, so I said why not? lol. The décor inside is neat and centered around airplanes since it’s near an airport. The service was off, though, and the food wasn’t that great. The Parmesan Crusted Artichoke Hearts were really good, but things went downhill from there. The Chicken Cordon Bleu was bland and rubbery. Dessert was a flavorless chocolate cake. Some people walked out while we were dining since the hostess wasn’t around to seat them. Heh.

Man, my late grandfather, an aviation buff, would have loved this place for the theme alone…
Located near the Allegheny County Airport, The Skyvue, a West Mifflin mainstay that is currently celebrating its 75^th anniversary, was fairly recently renovated after having been closed for several years.
The small bar was well-​attended by what surely were regulars. That dining room, however, was gorgeously and unexpectedly appointed with its bright, hardwood floors, model airplanes, propellers, jukebox, and old, framed photographs. Hit songs from the 1950’s played continuously. Kay and I were the only ones not bellying up for beer. A local food critic who goes by the pseudonym «Munch» gave Skyvue a favorable write-​up as well as a glimpse into its backstory. What… could go… wrong?
After being ignored for 5 minutes we were told by an apologetic and cheery barmaid to «Just sit anywhere.» Hmph. We coulda done that on our own.
Sleuthing their menu online before visiting this past Monday night en route to Wal-​Mart (ugh), I already knew which entrée I wanted: Swordfish! It had been a good while since I had some! No burgers tonight!
It wasn’t until I was halfway finished with the slab of fierce sea creature that Kay slipped a Reader’s Digest-​worthy factoid into my glass ‘o Pepsi.
«Hon, you should never order fish at a restaurant on a Monday unless they specialize in it. It’s probably not fresh. I would think you’d know that, Mr. Foodie.»
«I did not know that,» I responded, channeling Johnny Carson. Hence the uneven nature of my blackened filet. Some morsels were arid and tough. Others were juicy, fatty, and flavorsome. A stunning remoulade sauce and a tasteful presentation almost made up for the lackluster hunk of oceanic protein. Almost.
Seconding my fish was a dish of unseasoned, drab garlic mashed potatoes and a colorful, buttery, tasty, and all too brief medley of red bell peppers and zucchini.
A hopeful appetizer consisting of parmesan-​encrusted, deep-​fried artichoke hearts complete with a side of horseradish mayonnaise only furthered my disappointment with the main course. I had seen Bobby Flay eat these on Food Network special program on carnival food and had hankered for them since then. Apparently, anything can be plunged in hot fat after having been battered, and these fleshy nuggets were indeed a treat.
A garden salad came close to winning me over as well, its bold, snappy honey-​mustard dressing proving delightful.
Dessert for moi was a humble pecan ball in an elegant goblet. A mound of piped on (real?) whipped cream topped the cold, golden, caramel-​laced vanilla spheroid. ‘Twas nothing to salivate nor vomit o’er.
Dessert for Her was an absolute floozy of a chocolate cake cut. Kay refused to finish it, so I intervened, and found its lack of personality striking. The icing tasted like chocolate vegetable shortening, and the cake itself was akin to a dry sponge. Her turn-​ons? Greasy hair, barbed wire tats, expensive stuff married men buy for her, reality TV, lonely old millionaires, plastic surgery, and juiceheads. Turn-​offs? Reading, thinking, working, and other women. At least she looked good, though. A gal like that needs to make the fellas rubberneck.
Also forcing me to reduce my appraisal was the inexcusably poor service. I have to reiterate that The Skyvue’s dining area was empty when we arrived, and not only were we disregarded for a time, but so was another couple who became annoyed and left unbeknownst to the staff! One more party of 2 came in while Kay and I ate, and not only did they eventually seat themselves, but the barkeep waited on them herself.
Our actual server, a sweet, pretty young lass, barely handled one group (that’s us!) competently and had to enlist the reserves. To be fair, the bartender sort of had enough to deal with. Conversely, the waitress had what any other person in her field would consider a dead night.
Moreover, our dishes took much too long to arrive at our table, and we had to remind our server for refills constantly.
Crud, did I want to like eating here, especially after motoring past it uncounted times.
Well, I kinda did, anyway. I guess I should have ordered a Bacon Cheeseburger like Munch did, and like I do far too often.
P. S. Am I being lenient here? Our meal before tip cost $ 60! And no, I only left a gratuity of 15%. As you may know, I usually give around 20.

The food is decent but the bar service sucks. I’ve been here for 20 minutes and still appetizer. It was the same way last time I stopped.

We were spending the week in West Mifflin and Skyvue was recommended by our hotel. We ended up eating there every night. The food, service, drinks and price were all fantastic. It was very clean and they treated you like family. Loved the fish sandwich, salmon and the GB margaritas!