Attention Pittsburgh amateur chefs and people that like to eat and drink good beer: The Brooklyn Brewery Food Experiment Tour is coming to Pittsburgh. For the Competitors The tour is trying to find the best amateur chefs from around the nation and they will be making a stop in Pittsburgh on Sunday May 20th. Chefs [...]
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Penn’s Corner CSA Week 3 – 5
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, so hopefully this will get me back into the swing of things. (I’ve been busy packing and moving my stuff to Utah – yes, my house is still for sale.) I have a few posts in the pipe (visit to BRGR, a trip to the Strip District, and [...]
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Pittsburgh Craft Beer Week
Yes that’s right – an entire week devoted to celebrating the wonders of craft beer! A craft brewer is defined as a small, independent, traditional beer maker. Generally a craft brewer produces 6 million barrels of beer per year (or fewer). The majority of craft brewers are not owned by a larger alcoholic beverage industry [...]
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Penn’s Corner CSA Week 2
I was so excited about the first week, that I decided I should share my bounty from week #2. If you aren’t familiar with what a farm share is, check out my post from last week about the Penn’s Corner Farm Share – Week 1. We got the preview email over the weekend while we [...]
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Penn’s Corner Farm Share
“It’s like Christmas for grownups, except the presents come every week, and instead of toys there are turnips and spinach.” A coworker of mine turned me on to the idea of buying into a farm share last summer. Before that mention, I’d never heard of the concept. And although I grow my own garden every [...]
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The Franklin Inn
I know I promised this review last week. I put it off a little too long so I’m going to try to write about everything I can remember. We had a pretty big group, so if any of you are reading this, feel free to chime in below in the comment section. Ever since I [...]
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The Golden Goblet
Although I’m not a religious person, the period of Lent always puts me in the mood for fish sandwiches just because my co-workers always end up having to go out and eat fish on Fridays. And so it turned out this past Good Friday that a co-worker and I were looking for somewhere to eat, [...]
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Tsuki Japanese Restaurant
I’m a big fan of sushi, but living in Penn Hills, my only option has pretty much been to drive somewhere else – either toward the city into Squirrel Hill or Shadyside or out to Saga in the Monroeville Mall. The quality food options are slim enough as it is in Penn Hills, and when [...]
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Diving into Jack’s
For my first bar review I’m going to start with a place many people like to finish the night, Jack’s. Jack’s located on 1117 E Carson Street boasts that it’s a, “Pittsburgh Legend.” When people hear “dive bar” it evokes a variety of responses. To some they are nothing more than dimly lit, smoke filled [...]
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Pittsburgh Groupons: See and Eat Pittsburgh on a Budget
By now you’ve probably at least heard about the website Groupon. More than likely you’ve probably already even bout a groupon for yourself or as a gift for someone else. (If you haven’t noticed, you can now see today’s Groupon over on the right sidebar ===> ) But if you’ve really never heard of Groupon.com [...]
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