Monday's Union Restaurant

Spicy fried pickles are amazing! It's our new wing spot for Thursdays. $.95 WHOLE wings & the Sweet & Hot is great. Their soups are so good, haven't had a bad one yet. Lent specials are great. They have a variety of pierogie flavors, love the mushroom & swiss. The only complaints I have is 1. No free refills because they don't have a soda fountain, so, I try to keep it at 2 drinks max because that's the price of most drinks, most places. 2. Service can be very slow as they are very low on servers. We wait a long time for refills (since they're not free that might be good?) or if they forget something, our food will start to get cold before we receive the missing item. Besides that, the food is FANTASTIC. I cant say enough about their soups! The only thing that needs work is the mashed potatoes could be creamier.

Decent little pizza joint in Western PA… Stopped in after checking out the local Christmas lights display at a nearby fairground. We called ahead to check if it would be okay to show up as late as we were and thankfully, they were cool with. So off we went. Unassuming from the outside and even more so on the inside, the place has a mom-and-pop / greasy spoon charm that I am attracted too. There’s a main dining area adjacent to a small barroom that unfortunately lets cigarette smoke from the barroom filter in. Fortunately the one smoker didn’t stay long. They have a surprisingly extensive menu of American fare favorites along with some untraditional but welcomed choices. The selections this evening varied fresh m a pizza roll, to steak salad, to massive Strombolis. All of it cooked fresh and/or hot as the plate dictated. Service was friendly, patient, and relatively attentive - given she was the only waitress in the place at this point in time of the night. I wish I could give this place 3.5 stars, but erred on the lower rating due to the cigarette smoke detracting from what was an otherwise pleasant surprise on a very cold, Western PA evening.