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A Pittsburgh-Based, Golf-Themed Brewery Hopes To Swing Nationwide
PHOTOS COURTESY OF LINKS BREWING CO. Links Brewing Company wants to be the official brand of golf’s unofficial beverage. From its humble facility on the North Side, the business supplies suds to 16...
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Tiny Allegheny City Brewing Is Planning Big Things In 2024
RENDERINGS COURTESY OF LAB 8 ARCHITECTS To celebrate its seventh anniversary, tiny Allegheny City Brewery is throwing a big bash. The festivities start at noon on Saturday, Sept. 30 with beer, bites,...
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Pittsburgh Brewing Company Gets Into The Spirit With Iron City Distilling
PHOTOS BY KRISTY GRAVER “Whiskey is basically beer that’s been distilled,” says Master Distiller Matt Strickland as he stands on a platform overlooking Iron City Distilling, Pittsburgh Brewing Co.’s...
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Is A (Big) Burrito With A Cult Following One Of PA’s Best Fall Flavors? You...
PHOTO COURTESY OF MAD MEX What are Pennsylvania’s best fall flavors? The PA Chamber of Business and Industry is holding a bracket competition on X, formerly Twitter, to determine the Commonwealth’s top...
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River Road Sprinkle Co. Adds Sparkle And Sweetness To Desserts Near And Far
PHOTOS BY LEEANN K PHOTOGRAPHY. Pretty please with sugar on top, read this love story. Married couple Surrae Shield and Rachel Madden run River Road Sprinkle Co., an Armstrong County-based business...
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Caliente Pizza & Drafthouse Offers Ghoulish To-Go Containers For The...
PHOTOS COURTESY OF CALIENTE PIZZA & DRAFTHOUSE They keep coming back in a bloodthirsty lust for … pizza? Caliente Pizza & Drafthouse is getting its ghoul on this Halloween season by offering...
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What Makes The Bulldog Pub Much More Than Just a Neighborhood Watering Hole
Jesse DiRenzo serves Italian food in an Irish bar that’s a go-to spot for sports fans, including those dedicated to the Union of European Football Associations. Yet it’s quintessentially Pittsburgh....
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Meals with a Mission: Breakfast of Heroes
PHOTOS BY SHAUN HALL During the height of the pandemic, Todd DePastino organized a virtual dinner party for more than 100 veterans. Men and women representing all branches of the armed forces gathered...
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Three Brothers Bagels Brings Big Apple-Style Breakfast Staples to the Steel City
PHOTO COURTESY OF THREE BROTHERS BAGELS Have you ever tasted something that transports you to a very specific, but seemingly mundane, moment in your past? That happened to me at Three Brothers Bagels...
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A Pittsburgh-Based Condiment Company Promotes Local Music on Bottles of...
PHOTO COURTESY OF BEANO’S In 1991, after running Beano’s Pizza & Subs in Blawnox for six years, the Conroy family decided to “liquidate” the successful business. The shop’s signature submarine...
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How a Mobile Coffee Shop Came To Be Hauled By a Hearse
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE COFFIN BEAN & CO. After working the 9-to-5 grind for decades, Jen Mullins was at a dead end. To raise her spirits, the Apollo resident launched her own to-die-for business....
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Celebrate Good Food and Drink at Alta Via in Market Square
PHOTOS BY KRISTY GRAVER The original Alta Via Ristorante opened in Fox Chapel on April Fool’s Day 2019. AVP, the brand’s pizzeria, debuted in Bakery Square a few years later on April 12, the date...
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Clown Around at the South Side’s Double Wide Grill One Last Time
PHOTOS BY KRISTY GRAVER Before the South Side’s Double Wide Grill can become Spork Island Trading Co., owner Steve Zumoff has to jump through a few hoops with Pittsburgh zoning regulators. In the...
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Free Your Spirit When Tortured Souls Brewing Co. Opens in New Kensington
PHOTO BY KRISTY GRAVER For a while, Scott and Angela Wyman felt like they were in limbo. “Tortured Souls is what we named our brand, but we didn’t expect it to be so literal,” says Angela, co-owner of...
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At Mic’s Market in Sewickley, Nutritious Food is the Star of the Show
PHOTO BY ALEXIS KAPPEL Michaela Blaney’s life is like a romantic comedy: A Big City girl moves to a small town to follow her dream of opening a health food store and ends up falling in love in the...
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Bunny Bakes is Hoppin’ in Squirrel Hill With a Special Ingredient
PHOTOS BY KRISTY GRAVER Rachel Herskowitz works for Bunny Bakes & Specialty Coffee in Squirrel Hill, even on her days off. “She recruits a lot of customers. No one is a better salesperson for...
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Where You Can Purchase International Foods for Pocket Change
PHOTOS BY KRISTY GRAVER In “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving,” a Peanuts special that turns 50 in 2023, our favorite blockhead serves a holiday meal consisting of popcorn, toast, pretzel sticks and jelly...
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Get Food for Thought at Buttery Spread, a Culinary-Themed Art Exhibition on...
PHOTOS BY KRISTY GRAVER Any chef will tell you cooking is a creative outlet. A new exhibition at Brew House Arts on the South Side celebrates food through drawings, paintings, sculptures and the...
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Go to Infinity and Beyond at Space Bar in Market Square
PHOTOS BY KRISTY GRAVER Houston native Dale Thomas Vaughn spent his childhood visiting NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where his grandfather worked as an engineer. Last week he launched Space Bar in...
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Do You Know The Story Behind Pittsburgh’s Most Enduring Commercial?
PHOTO COURTESY EAT’N PARK Forget Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” In Pittsburgh, Walt Woodward’s little ditty ushers in the holiday season. The folk singer-turned-jingle writer penned...
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His Grandma Taught Him Home Cookin’ and Their Biscuits Are The Bomb
PHOTO BY KRISTY GRAVER Editor’s Note: This story has been updated since its original publication. For Army brat James Wolfe, buttermilk biscuits taste like home. His Grandma Sallie, who taught him the...
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Why An Award-Winning Distillery Is Expanding to the Suburbs
PHOTOS COURTESY OF ALLEGHENY DISTILLING Allegheny Distilling, the decade-old, Strip District-based facility that makes Maggie’s Farm Rum, is experiencing a lot of growth; so much so that owner Tim...
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What’s Old is Stew: A New Eatery Opens in a Beloved Oakland Bar
PHOTOS BY KRISTY GRAVER I’ve been stewed at 212 Oakland Ave. numerous times, but never like this. The former Fuel and Fuddle space — my favorite bar where I was a card-carrying member of the Beer Cult...
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Eat, Drink and Be Scary at Krampus Events Throughout Pittsburgh
PHOTO BY KRISTY GRAVER In my house, Christmas is less about comfort and joy and more about threats and intimidation. We’re only a few days into December and I’ve already shouted “Santa doesn’t bring...
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The Dog Penn Bringing Pints and Pups to the Strip District This Spring
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE DOG PENN The Strip District is going to the dogs. This spring, Alissa and Travis May plan to unleash the hounds at a combination pup park and a full-service bar at 2614 Penn...
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Local food photographer going to the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl — as a referee
PHOTOS COURTESY OF JEN BERKE Jen Berke is a food photographer who’s headed to the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl on Dec. 23. But, the Hampton resident won’t be snapping pictures of prize spuds; she’s one of...
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Burghers Brewing Now Open on the South Side
PHOTO COURTESY OF BURGHERS BREWING Burghers Brewing has big expansion plans, starting with its tiny new space at The Highline. The business, which has restaurants in Zelienople and Lawrenceville and a...
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The Best Places for Fried Chicken in Pittsburgh
PHOTOS BY KRISTY GRAVER There sure are a lot of deep-fried poultry restaurants hatching around town. Folks are flocking to Raising Cane’s, an Ohio-based chain that recently opened eateries in Oakland...
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Looking for Good Soup? Try this North Hills Brewery
PHOTO BY KRISTY GRAVER Comfort & Spice, a pop-up kitchen featuring gourmet soups and stews, is Toby Vann’s business du jour. During the winter months, the jack-of-all-trades makes everything from...
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Best New Breweries Coming to Pittsburgh
PHOTO COURTESY OF TRACE BREWING Happy Brew Year! Pittsburgh will be awash in beer 2024. Here’s some booze news you can use. But, please do so responsibly. RENDERINGS COURTESY OF LAB 8 ARCHITECTS...
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