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Pittsburgh’s Giant Eagle Ranked Last in a 2026 Grocery Satisfaction Survey
Money is tight enough without leaving a grocery store feeling let down. A national shopper survey this year put a Pittsburgh-based chain at the bottom, while a few others did far better. Here’s how the ranking played out, and what it may mean for Pennsylvanians who shop at Giant Eagle....
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This Pittsburgh Restaurant Cooks Steaks Over Cherry, Oak, and Hickory
Steak at Gaucho Parrilla Argentina does not disappear behind a kitchen door and emerge from a conventional grill. The Pittsburgh restaurant builds much of its cooking around a wood-fired parrilla fueled by hardwoods including cherry, oak, and hickory. Cooks adjust the grill over glowing embers, moving meats between hotter and...
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This Ain't Tucson: Pepperoni rolls, Primanti Bros. are West Virginia and Pittsburgh staples
MORGANTOWN, West Virginia — For the last three-plus seasons, Arizona football beat writer Justin Spears (yours truly) has highlighted multiple restaurants and food spots that can only be found in the cities the Wildcats are playing in. To honor our friends over at ThisIsTucson.com, which just promoted food writer...
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Visit This Pennsylvania Italian Restaurant And You’ll Find A Real Dining Car From Another Era
Dinner feels a little different inside DiSalvo’s Station Restaurant in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The Italian restaurant fills a restored train station, while a real railcar adds another layer of old-time charm to the setting. Inside, the historic surroundings give an ordinary meal a little more character without taking away from the food itself.
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Since 1938, This Pittsburgh Diner Has Been Serving Pie And Coffee To Night-Shift Regulars
Some restaurants chase trends, and some just keep the coffee coming for decades while the city changes around them. This Pittsburgh diner belongs firmly in the second group, with a counter, booths, and tabletop jukeboxes that have stayed loyal to their old-school roots. People who grew up eating here come...
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This Charming Small-Town Pennsylvania Restaurant Serves Up A Breakfast Of Champions You’ll Never Forget
Somewhere in the rolling hills of western Pennsylvania, tucked into the quiet borough of Claysville, a breakfast spot exists that makes you question every life choice that kept you away from it for this long. Farmhouse Kitchen & Bakery is the kind of place that reminds you why small towns...
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The Devil Wears Polo dishes on abusive power dynamics in Pittsburgh’s restaurant scene
Alana Wenk was proud of the chicken parmesan. She chose it for a billboard promoting a struggling Pittsburgh restaurant, reasoning that a familiar dish made sense for a menu that frequently changed. She says her boss approved the image and location. When she spotted the finished advertisement from the Parkway West, she pointed it out to her fiancé. There it was, something she had made, big enough for passing motorists to see.
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Ranking 10 Of Pennsylvania’s Most Talked-About Italian Restaurants
Pennsylvania has a deep love for Italian food, from old red-sauce dining rooms in Philadelphia to cozy pasta spots in Pittsburgh and polished kitchens in Lancaster and Scranton. Italian cooking has become an important part of the state’s dining culture, shaped by generations of families who brought cherished recipes and traditions with them and passed them down over time. These restaurants matter because they help tell the story of Pennsylvania, where family recipes, immigrant traditions, handmade pasta, and local ingredients all share the same table.
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Pittsburgh-area restaurants embrace fall flavors with pumpkin, squash, apples and more
The double-cut pork chop with apple cider glaze at Fig & Ash. (Massoud Hossaini | TribLive) This week, the Pittsburgh region approached peak fall foliage, and restaurant menus are following suit with comforting flavors of squash, apples, pumpkin and hearty meats. But fall menus aren’t all cinnamon and sage. Across...
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Pittsburgh's 6pm Dance Party Returns, Honoring Co-Founder Who Died Last Year
A dance party that ends before most Pittsburgh nightlife even gets going is finally landing on the North Shore. Earlybirds Club, the national 6 to 10 p.m. dance series built for people who love to dance but not necessarily until 2 a.m., will take over Stage AE on October 24, with DJ Jess spinning pop, hip-hop, new wave and R&B hits from the 1980s through the 2000s.
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Now Hiring: Restaurant Jobs Edition
This isn’t our usual jobs roundup. Earlier this month, Richard DeShantz, the chef and owner behind Meat & Potatoes, Butcher and the Rye, täkō, and more than a dozen other Pittsburgh restaurants, was charged with strangulation and assault after a woman told police he attacked her early on the morning of Oct. 3. He was released on bail, and the case is now moving through the courts.
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Pennsylvania Sweet Tooths Keep Making the Trip to Sarris Candies in Canonsburg for Hand-Dipped Chocolates and an Old-Fashioned Ice Cream Parlor
A twelve-foot castle made entirely of chocolate was the last thing I expected to find after pulling off an interstate in western Pennsylvania. I came for a quick cone and walked into a candy shop that stretches across a whole city block, smelling of warm cocoa and fudge. Glass cases...
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7 Croatian and Slovenian Dishes from Pittsburgh to the Iron Range
I use AI to help draft these articles. Every recipe and every fact in them is checked before publishing. Croatian and Slovenian families came to Pittsburgh and Cleveland for the steel mills, and to Hibbing and Eveleth on Minnesota's Iron Range for the iron mines. By the 1920s, the Croatian neighborhoods on Pittsburgh's North Side and just up the Allegheny in Millvale each had their own St. Nicholas parish, and the church halls ran the holiday baking. The cooking those families kept was dense and slow, built around pork, cabbage, beans, and whatever pastry the grandmother knew how to make.