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Type of Business: Restaurant
Cuisine: American
Price: $$$
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Rating Criteria
1. From Scratch: Serves mostly (i.e., more than half of the menu) fresh food, prepared from scratch. Does NOT rely primarily on kits or prepared/partially prepared foods from commercial food services.
Yes
2. Local/Organic: Offers at least some locally sourced and/or organically produced food and/or wild-caught seafood.
Yes
3. Pastured: Offers at least some pastured animal foods.
No
4. Organs: Offers some dishes made with organ meats (liver/paté, sweetbreads, heart, kidney, brains, etc.).
Yes
5. Cooking Fats: Cooks (sautés) in natural fats such as butter, lard, tallow, duck fat, coconut oil, or olive oil; uses lard, duck fat, or tallow for frying.
No
6. Bone Broth: Makes own bone broths/stocks for use in soups, stews, gravies, and sauces (does NOT use canned broth or powdered soup bases).
Yes
7. Seasonings: Makes most of its own seasoning mixes (does NOT use flavoring packets or MSG).
Yes
8. Salad oils: Makes most of its own salad dressings using olive oil or cold-pressed sesame oil.
Yes
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
No
10. Beverages: Offers lacto-fermented beverages (such as kombucha or kvass).
No
11. Condiments: Offers lacto-fermented condiments.
No
12. Desserts: Offers desserts made with natural sweeteners (such as raw honey, maple syrup, maple sugar, molasses, date sugar, palm sugar, coconut sugar, sorghum syrup, or malt syrup).
No
Comments: Most of the food is made from scratch. They use locally produced ricotta cheese, but I don't know of any other local products, and the ricotta is not organic. The shrimp is wild-caught, possibly other seafood is as well. The only organ meat that I know they serve is tripe. They regularly have huge pots of bone broth simmering in the prep rooms. Most of the house-made dressings (or the purchased dressings) are unfortunately made with soybean oil (and sugar), but I believe the oil-and-vinegar option is actually olive oil. There is plenty here to be cautious about, but they certainly deserve at least a couple of spoons. I have worked there in food preparation for just over a year, though just part time, mainly on weekends. Other things to ask about and look out for are sugar content and microwave use. When I request my employee meal, I nearly always just get grilled chicken and vegetables, and take some real butter from the server station to melt over the food myself.[end character limit]
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Bethanie Westgate
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Location & Contact
533 Allegheny Avenue
Oakmont, PA
Hoffstot's is an elegant Italian restaurant with delicious food made from scratch. Their soups and sauces are made from broths that are all made in-house. They accept reservations or walk-ins, you can dine in or carry out, or also request a set menu for a large gathering in the restaurant or arrange for catering to be brought to another location.