Munch once got busted.

It's true. A waitress, a few years back, at the Brillobox figured out the identity of Munch, or at least who Munch and companion of Munch were from the review. Munch only learned of this security breach later when that friend of Munch went back with someone else and the same waitress spotted said friend. It was an "aha" moment and the friend was not cool enough to deny everything.

That waitress is long gone from this city. Munch denies having anything to do with it.

So it was with much trepidation that Munch went to J'eet after the Brillobox debacle of 2006. Munch had received an email from someone completely unconnected to the waitress or her rush from the 'Burgh.

J'eet. 4200 Penn Ave., Lawrenceville. 412-682-5338 or www.jeetcafe.com.

The email was from Daniel Stern, the father of Eric Stern, who is the proprietor of the Brillobox.

It seems Eric Stern's brother, Marc Stern, is the smarter of the two because while Eric Stern opened a business that is open for lunch and dinner and well into the night, Marc has chosen life over profits. Marc Stern opened a restaurant right up the street from his brother's place. The new venture is J'eet -- a bright and airy restaurant that serves crepes, sandwiches and salads and has a coffee bar with a barista who made the most lovely little fern design in the Latte of Munch.

Munch was willing to go back to a Stern restaurant because of the name. It's a complete derivation of the Pittsburgh idiom without being over the top as say "J'eet, n'at" would be. It's elegant in its self-deprecation. "J'eet?" How many times has Munch heard that in this town? How perfectly Pittsburgh.

J'eet, and this is the brilliant part from a lifestyle point of view, is only open Monday and Tuesday from 6:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Wednesday to Friday from 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Everything about the place is so elegantly simple. The tables are made of bamboo, both hard and ecologically friendly; the colors are bright and the huge front window makes it so bright. There's no alcohol, so that eliminates that whole side of the restaurant business. And the menu, both in design and content, is really fresh.

For lunch the menu offers savory crepes ($6 to $7), sandwiches ($7-$8) and salads (from $4.50 for a small house salad to $9 for a chef's salad). For dessert there are sweet crepes from ($4.50 to $7).

Munch's lunch, the mushroom, onion and herb crepe with a bit of gruyere cheese ($6.50), had a lovely flavor even if the crepe was just slightly overcooked and thus tough.

Munch brought the Munchettes, two co-workers who love to eat. The first had the prosciutto sandwich ($8) -- French bread with asiago cheese, arugula, roasted red peppers and a tapenade of kalamata olives -- while the other Munchette ordered the pesto and cheese crepe ($6), which uses chevre (or goat) cream cheese for the filling with the pesto.

Each of the lunches was accompanied by a side salad with a very light balsamic vinaigrette. Three of us had lunch and sodas for just $25, so we turned to the sweet crepes and split two, the espresso and coffee bean crepe (the most expensive at $7), an espresso crepe served with melted chocolate, whipped cream and chocolate-covered coffee beans. The other dessert crepe was the chocolate banana ($5) with bananas and Nutella, topped with walnuts.

It was just all so good. Add a triple latte and even the Munchettes were ready to head back to work.

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