Lobby Bar (Sheraton Station Square)

The reasons are manifold: while waiting for a table in the adjacent Pittsburgh Rare Restaurant; apres dinner to keep the groove going; between the entree and the dessert for a cigarette since the restaurant is non-smoking.

In ShortOn an elevated platform, this hotel lounge mates easy chairs and loveseats, some cabaret tables and one wrought-iron circular bar, an illuminated blue-glass centerpiece and a blue-speckled, granite countertop. The finely tuned, CD-programmed, baby grand player-piano sets an appropriately mellow tone, as uniformed servers quietly hustle between solid panels of multi-colored glass and...