text: Brunchy brunch brunch brunch.  I'm a sucker, a real sucker for cocktails and cured salmon on a Sunday.  All they had to do was post photos to facebook and offer champagne to the first 20 reservations and voila! I had a reservation for 6 for the inauguration day for brunch.  I do LOVE places that keep their Facebook/website like super up-to-date!  Much appreciated!!\n\nThis place is cool.  It's cool for evening cocktails, appetizers, happy hour, or brunch.  It is also slightly \"cold\" as in, the acoustics.  It can be difficult to hear the person next to you when you turn your head.  Everything is like, concrete, tin, marble, tile, etc.\n\nThe tables and bar are nicely placed and the menu has prices and is easy to read.  There were no cocktails listed on the brunch menu, though, which I didn't really like, but since I've been for drinks before, I kind of knew what they had.  The sangria was small, but it was only $5 (but sangria is a cheap drink...)\n\nI got the whiskey cured salmon.  It comes with cream cheese and capers and rye bread.  It was good, but a very small portion for $13.  I left hungry.  The risotto looked delicious.  A friend got the yogurt with an extra egg and she seemed to enjoy it.  They did bring out a complimentary little cup of the yogurt with apple slices before hand, which was nice, but we had no spoons!  I asked for spoons about twice and never got them.  Then someone picked up our yogurts before we were ever able to eat it :(\n\nThe service is friendly (I've been once for cocktails and it was great service at the bar), but it was a little \"first time-y\", with the little things.  For example, we had a water jug, but no water glasses.  Then we had glasses but no more water. Had to ask a few times for it before we took a jug from an empty table.  The sangria took a good 20 min to get.  The food also took a while, but it was their first time, so that's understandable I guess.\n\nI hope that they improve.  I'd give the brunch 3 stars and the regular hours 4-5 stars.  I'd also love to see the patio that they are planning.  I think this place has tons of potential.\n\nDear Bar Marco, get it together-really together, very soon!  The Pittsburgh market is getting competitive for these kinds of places and I don't want you to be left out with bad reviews!  You're right at the edge of not being new anymore and going to lose people with a bad experience.  I will be back, but I'd like it to be a go-to place and it's not quite there yet.  Alchemy N Ale is a prime example of a great place that just fell off at the beginning and may not recover.