Dining with the Enemy.

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | June 17, 2012

No. 853

If you are bored with the usual dining fare, here is (as far as we know) something you won’t find anywhere in America but, yes, Pittsburgh.

Conflict Kitchen.

Yes, Conflict Kitchen serves authentic take-outcuisine from places which are in conflict with the US.  It is located in East Liberty, at Highland Avenue.  Venues (one at a time) have included Iran, Afghanistan, Venezuela. It rotates identity every six months (so you don’t get bored) and has had Skype dinners with groups in the countries being featured.

Walk right up for window service.  But unlike Alice’s Restaurant, you can’t get anything you want.  It is a lot closer to the railroad track than Alice’s, though. Carnegie Mellon University started it, to stimulate dialogue with other countries.  And so, if you ever meet an Iranian, you can break the ice by saying something like: “I really hate your food.”

Its been reviewed in the LA Times and economics blog Marginal Revolution.

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