The Pleasure Bar

The Pleasure Bar; what a name. It suggests that your visit will involve relaxing on a chaise lounge with your favorite cocktail, while getting a massage from a scantily clad fill-in-your-sexual-preference here. This is not that place. Get that out of your head right now. Let's set the bar a little lower. Maybe it is a nice bar with good lighting, comfortable seating, and decent food.  Nope. Forget that too. Let's try an awkwardly shaped old-man bar, attached to a sub-standard Italian restaurant. Ding! Winner!

It is a horseshoe bar, but one side of the horseshoe is literally two feet from a giant mirror wall. So, that is not comfortable. If someone in the middle of that side needs to get up, everyone has to get up to let them out. Two people took up the entire space on the other side of the horseshoe somehow. It’s a space that could have contained 6 or 7 people, but was totally filled by two people...

There were some high tops near the windows, as well. The bartender was nice and attentive. We were told by friends that we got the "good" bartender, but that is only hearsay.

We did not eat there this time, but A had the misfortune of eating at the attached restaurant 8 months ago or so, and would recommend steering clear.

The rest of the bar space, which is another room almost, seems like it could be an Applebee's or something.  Seriously, look at the picture. It is so bright! How on Earth does this space get a cool name like The Pleasure Bar?

Don't be fooled. There is no pleasure to be found here. We strongly recommend going somewhere else, like Applebee's*; at least you know what you are getting there.

*  We strongly discourage anyone from going to Applebee's. This recommendation was made solely for illustrative purposes only. Applebee’s is terrible and should be avoided at all costs.

Address:	4729 Liberty Ave, 15224   http://pleasurebarpittsburgh.com/	Games:	Magic Touch
Façade:	Not Scary	Scene:	Bloomfield Local
Parking:	Easy	Patio/Outdoor:	No
Kitchen:	Full Italian menu, not very good	Cleanliness:	Normal
Smoking:	None	Jukebox:	Internet Crap
Hours:	11am-2am	Cig Machine:	No
Drink Prices:	Average	# taps:	12
Bathrooms:	Sit	Specials:	Not really
Live music:	No	Riley Factor:	$10
ATM:	Yes	Cash Only	No
TVs:	4	Size:	Average