Food & Drink category, Page 42

From light to heavy, vegan to meaty, the upcoming new menu at Knead Community Cafe in New Kensington is full of options. While the winter chill lingered this year, Knead’s fall and winter menu will exit with the launch of the spring and summer menu on May 10. It brings...

Diners can expect a new menu at a waterside cafe located in Aspinwall at Allegheny RiverTrail Park. Farmer x Baker, a repurposed shipping container cafe, reopened this month, introducing a vegan and vegetarian menu. Owner and baker/chef Jennifer Urich said the switch to a meat-free menu at the casual eatery...

“Strawberry Pie Forever” didn’t live up to its name. It was gone on Wednesday, the same day it was released. Cans of the brew collaboration between Pittsburgh-based Eat’n Park restaurant’s strawberry pie flavor and Grist House Craft Brewery of Millvale are sold out, according to the brewery. It’s still available...

The Pittsburgh area is known for its sports teams, sports fans and, to a lesser extent, its sports bars. And it looks like Western Pennsylvania will be making room for yet another one of the latter with a bit of a twist. The Twin Peaks Restaurant chain based in the...

After gaining acclaim as a pop-up restaurant, and then setting up a brick-and-mortar spot in Dormont, the popular Moonlit Burgers is expanding. The restaurant known for its signature “smash burger” is planning to open a new location on the Duquesne University campus in Pittsburgh’s Uptown neighborhood later this summer. “When...

A couple years after losing its popular Argentine joint when Gaucho moved to Downtown, Pittsburgh’s Strip District neighborhood will soon be gaining a South American restaurant when New York City-based Balvanera moves into a new ground level space on Smallman Street. Balvanera will occupy 4,400 square feet at the 1600...

A mariachi band will perform Sunday in downtown New Kensington as part of the opening of the city’s newest restaurant. Taqueria El Pastorcito will be open from 2 to 8 p.m. Sunday, with the band playing for a couple of hours in the mid-afternoon, owner and chef Jose Tecuanhuehue said....

City Winery, a national chain offering food and wine experiences paired with intimate live performances, is coming to Pittsburgh’s Strip District. A late fall opening is projected for the space at the westernmost end of The Terminal at 16th and Smallman streets. Founded in 2008 by Michael Dorf, City Winery...

What started as a vision for an ice cream shop evolved into a coffee shop and cafe, Barnyard Coffee & Creamery, offering experimental taste twists at the No Offseason Sports complex in Russellton. Barnyard owner Holly Johnston, a Richland resident and Shaler native, worked for years as a sales rep...

Taco Bell pulled Mexican pizza from its menu in 2020. Now, the fan-favorite item is returning, due in part to a petition on change.org. Fan Krish Jagirdar spearheaded a change.org petition that received more than 171,000 signatures. “Like many Indian-Americans who grew up vegetarian, we had limited access to the...

There might still be life in Tarentum’s Cycle Diner, just not as a traditional sit-down eatery. The 1949 diner is owned by Gatto Cycle Shop and attached to its Harley-­Davidson showroom along East Sixth Avenue. In January, it was denied a permit by the Allegheny County Health Department to reopen....

From old-fashioned saloons and greasy spoons to tattoo parlors, sports stadiums and a shop that sells only instruments you can pick, the South Side has edgy entertainment and enough history to call itself iconic. The neighborhood was once populated by steelworkers coming off their shifts and looking for a place...

Allison Lunko knew her specialty olive oil shop was a winner when someone asked, “How does it feel to have found something that people around here didn’t even realize they needed?” The Johnstown native opened Laurel Highlands Olive Oil at 140 E. Main St., Ligonier, in June 2021. Almost a...

Owners are unsure how long Sullivan’s Steakhouse in Downtown Pittsburgh will be closed after a fire this week. Pittsburgh firefighters responded to the fire Tuesday evening in the restaurant located on the first floor of the U.S. Steel Tower. They contained it to the kitchen. “We are sincerely grateful to...

The Pittsburgh Pirates aren’t the only ones celebrating an opening day on the North Side. Gus & Yiayia’s ice ball stand opened on Tuesday for the season. Ice balls were served from the bright orange cart under the rainbow-colored umbrella near West Park, a few blocks away from PNC Park....

“Play Ball.” Those two words will mark a much-anticipated rite of spring on Tuesday for Major League Baseball fans. It’s the Pittsburgh Pirates home opener. They host the Chicago Cubs at PNC Park on April 12. First pitch is, to mimic the date, at 4:12 p.m.— in the 4-1-2. The...

After five years of providing beer lovers with an opportunity to try the latest local brews, Greensburg Craft Beer Week is undergoing changes. This year, the 10-day event will focus on summer brews, with a move from its normal September time slot to June. In addition, the event will kick...

Drink a Mexican Volcano, and you never know what might happen. Zack Dreskler went from enjoying the signature beverage at Dv8 Espresso Bar & Gallery in Greensburg to owning the place. A longtime customer, Dreskler took over from former owners Kim and Patricia Elliott-Rentler in early April. The couple, who...

Craft beer fans soon will have a new option for wetting their whistles in downtown Greensburg. Yellow Bridge Brewing Co. of Delmont is working on a taproom at 33 E. Pittsburgh St., next door to Sittay’s Mediterranean Kitchen. While the opening date is not set, it probably will be early...

It’s one of the six symbolic foods on the Passover seder plate — and it’s pretty delicious, too. Charoset (also spelled haroset) is usually made from sweet fruits, nuts and some red wine, all nods to verses in the Bible. You can keep eating it, of course, once its role...

Aren’t Peeps bad enough on their own? Apparently not, if TribLive Taste Test guest host Anthony Varine is involved. This week, with Easter on the way, we try out one of the many variations on Peeps. When last we encountered this marshmallow monstrosity, the Taste Test team was sampling sour...

It’s back to square one for the Square Café. The restaurant reopened a second store – Square One — in the spot where it all began. Square One is located inside My Goodness Market on Braddock Avenue in Regent Square. The café is an addition to the market. The larger...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers viewing tips for the coming week. The latest Pittsburgh show on Hearst’s Very Local streaming service, available via Amazon Fire, Apple TV, Android TV and Roku devices, offers profiles of several Pittsburgh chefs in each half-hour episode. Unlike Very Local’s hosted culinary...

Keith and Heather Fry are showcasing their newly opened Own Brook Winery by participating in the GO Laurel Highlands “Red, White & Brews” micro-pour tour starting Friday. The winery is located at 129 Perry Hite Road, a dead-end residential street in Hempfield, on a nearly 2-acre, hilltop property overlooking the...