Taiwanese Bistro Cafe 33

Expect potstickers, scallion pancakes and soup dumplings, but also marinated turnips and jellyfish with celery. We'd be lying if we said we'd ever imagined dining in the laundromat behind the Shady Avenue Starbucks in Squirrel Hill. But now that it has become a Taiwanese restaurant, Cafe 33, we had just that opportunity.

It sure cleaned up nice. The building, a one-story postwar box, doesn't have much inherent character to play up, but it's set back from the sidewalk to create a pleasant forecourt permitting that holy grail of Pittsburgh dining, outdoor seating. Indoors, the ambience is stylish without straining at hipster cliches (no barn wood, no Edison bulbs).