Restaurant Echo in Cranberry serves skillfully prepared and thoughtfully conceived dishes
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Echo's executive chef Brian Hammond, left, and chef de cuisine Chris O'Brien.
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When word began to spread last year that a chef who had worked with culinary giants Grant Achatz and Rick Bayless was planning to open a restaurant in Cranberry, the news was greeted with part anticipation and part suspicion.
Why would a chef with such a promising resume move to the outskirts of Pittsburgh to open his first restaurant? What did this Chicago chef know about the Pittsburgh food scene, or the needs and desires of its northern suburbs?
But Brian Hammond, who opened Restaurant Echo in December, is quite familiar with the local restaurant scene. He moved to Western Pennsylvania with his family as a teenager, graduating from Seneca High School in Erie. Later, he married a Pittsburgher, Terri, who serves as Restaurant Echo's office manager.
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1740 Route 228
Cranberry
www.restaurantecho.com
724-779-3246
- Hours: Lunch, Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; dinner, Tuesday-Saturday, 5-10 p.m.; late night, Tuesday-Saturday, 10 p.m.-midnight.
- Basics: Modern design and ingredient-focused food shine at this substantial new addition to the Pittsburgh-area restaurant scene.
- Recommended dishes: Romaine salad, mushroom cigars, charcuterie plate, pappardelle with lamb, golden trout, pork shank, Meyer lemon pudding cake, sticky toffee date cake.
- Prices: Small plates, $7-$12; large plates, $18-$26; desserts, $7-$12.
- Drink: Full bar, including a cocktail list; wines loosely organized by region; 3 sparkling, 9 white and 10 red wines by the glass, starting at $7; 5 sparkling wines by the bottle, starting at $39; 24 whites by the bottle, 6 bottles for $40 or less; 47 reds by the bottle, 11 bottles for $50 or less. The ample beer list should be a tremendous draw, including three rotating draft selections ($6-$7) augmented by 50 bottle selections including a diverse selection of local, regional, national and international brewers, $4-$9.
- Summary: Wheelchair accessible; credit cards accepted; reservations encouraged; corkage, $15.
First Published March 17, 2011 12:00 am
