I post this review as a learning moment for this café.

We ate at Sun Dawgs on Friday evening for my husband and my 7th Wedding Anniversary after a day of exploring Latrobe/Greensburg area. We are new to Pittsburgh and we took the train/bus out to explore a new to us area. We chose Sun Dawgs because it seemed like a quality healthy restaurant based on the online dinner menu. As vegetarians it's too often that touring food is heavy in bread and cheese (yummy but, can zap the energy). We noticed online the prices were kind of high for veggie bowls but the reviews were so good, we thought, well, let's splurge and treat ourselves. If it's good value (quality ingredients, good flavors/taste, nice place to be etc), I'm alright with that.

Well, I can say in general, service staff was good and our food came swiftly but after that it goes downhill.

Here's what didn't work out or was very disappointing and frankly terrible customer service/resolution for a problem with the food we ordered.

-Big menu on a chalk board when you walk in.... if you are eating dinner ignore it. They have a dinner menu on paper with limited options, no vegetarian tacos, and upped prices. We had already picked out what we wanted before they had a chance to catch us and say, nope. you can't have. So immediately we felt bummed about our dinner choices and wished we'd gotten there earlier for lunch.

-I found a chunk of pork in my vegetarian bowl 3-4 bites in. That's pretty bad... like really bad. I was kind about it but my meal should have been comped after that. In fact the owner came out saying how sorry she was that this happened and that was what we thought was happening when she said, I'll take care of you...let me get you another one. I changed to a different bowl because I did not want the same if it still had more meat in it. She said she'd "take care of it" which we thought meant, get me another replacement meal free on the house, which seems like the right response to the situation. Later with our waitress when we were brought the full bill, we explained what the owner said, or we thought implied and she nodded and said oh, ok... only to come back and have a higher bill with the 1.50 extra added on for my replacement bowl. At this point we were tired, had no time to get it resolved since we had to go meet our train back to Pittsburgh. Until then, we thought, well, this place isn't great for us for dinner, but maybe lunch. Now Never again. Nope nope nope.

-But the kicker is the food isn't fabulous. The quinoa bowl is 50% white rice bowl. Which is weird. Brown rice would be better. And there's not much in it unless you pay more for proteins. The peanut noodle bowl is super heavy on green onions, lacks complex flavors and would be nice with raw shredded carrots or some bean sprouts or something fresh and crunchy. I did order mine without jalapeños, so maybe that made a difference. I sensed the costs were low on the foods in the bowl, for example the quinoa bowl had some shredded cheese which I hadn't noticed when ordering, but it seemed like the cheap kind you buy at the supermarket, out a bag. I could be wrong, but the value didn't seem to add up.

-As an Anniversary meal it will go down as the worse in the books. I had to eat my over oniony noodles quickly while my husband just sat and watched because he'd finished his already because my original meal had accidental meat in it. The outdoor seating is in the direct sun in the evening (living up to it's Sun Dawg name! lol) and not nice at all (not 100% fault of the café, and we were originally glad they offered it), but we wouldn't have eaten there if there wasn't an outside option because with Covid in the community we are staying out of indoor eating spaces. Now I wish they hadn't had any outdoor seating because we would have never gone in the first place.