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Oakland’s Original Hot Dog shop to become 2 new food places
Maurry Mendelovich and Jamie Rodgers spent many a late Friday and Saturday night at the Original Hot Dog Shop in Oakland. “Yes, we were coming from the library,” said Rodgers, who roomed with Mendelovich when they were students at the University of Pittsburgh. The friends and business partners with Mero...
Pumpkin pie flavored milk is latest specialty drink from Schneider’s Dairy
With anything flavored with pumpkin popular in autumn, a local dairy is now offering pumpkin pie flavored milk. Whitehall-based Schneider’s Dairy is selling the flavored milk for a limited time as similar milk products gain in popularity. Sales of flavored whole milk jumped 36% from 2015 to the end of...
Can’t find canned pumpkin? Holiday staple should return to shelves soon
Bakers hunting for canned pumpkin have found it to be a hit-or-miss proposition lately. They’ve even taken to sharing sightings on social media. The good news, according to allrecipes.com, is that there isn’t really a shortage. The bad news is that it doesn’t make the Thanksgiving pie staple any easier...
Aldi, Amazon recall apple chips for possible salmonella contamination
Seneca Snack Co. of Washington has recalled two brands of apple chips that may be contaminated with salmonella. Clancy’s Cinnamon Apple Chips sold at Aldi and Seneca Cinnamon Apple Chips sold through Amazon are recalled. “Seneca was notified by an ingredient supplier that it shipped one lot of ingredients containing...
Edgewood Eat’n Park restaurant closing after 29 years
Richard Wilson stood outside Eat’n Park in Edgewood Towne Center after eating his final breakfast there. The restaurant is closing at 5 p.m. Monday after 29 years. “It was like a shock when I found out about this closing,” said Wilson, 40, of Swissvale, as he dined on a steak...
Fragrant dish captures Moroccan tagine flavor without hours of work
Vegetables mixed with fragrant spices of cinnamon, ginger and turmeric make a savory Moroccan tagine. A tagine is a dish made in a glazed earthenware dish with a conical lid, which is also called a tagine. Steam gathers at the top of the lid and falls on the food, keeping...
Delicate scallops and hearty bacon make flavorful grilled dish
Like most non-vegan Americans, I really enjoy bacon. As a kid, when mom made BLTs for all of us, I asked her to hold the L and the T. Mmmm, bacon sandwich. But apparently, unlike most, I find the trend of putting bacon on everything a bit much. It has...
Celebrity chef Guy Fieri dishes about why he chose Hempfield casino for latest restaurant 
Pittsburgh has the perfect mix of ingredients for Guy Fieri. “There are multiple reasons I chose Pittsburgh,” Fieri told the Tribune-Review about plans to open American Kitchen + Bar this year inside Live! Casino Pittsburgh, which will open before Thanksgiving at Westmoreland Mall in Hempfield. “It’s an All-American city, a...
Dianoia’s Eatery in Pittsburgh’s Strip District serves up Italian pumpkin dish
Gnocchi is the treat inside this pumpkin. DiAnoia’s Eatery in Pittsburgh’s Strip District has brought back its famous Gnocchi Pumpkin Bowl for a third year. The homemade Italian pasta is usually served in a “hearty” bread bowl, but chef and co-owner Dave Anoia adds what he calls a “festive flair...
Square Café’s East Liberty opening delayed
The opening of the Square Café in East Liberty has been delayed until early next week. The new location was scheduled to debut Thursday, but a final inspection detected a problem with the ventilation — the fire suppression system, to be exact — at the site. The restaurants Spoon and...
Downtown Pittsburgh restaurant Pork & Beans closes
After four years in Downtown Pittsburgh, the barbecue restaurant Pork & Beans is closing. “We’ve made the difficult decision to retire Pork & Beans, but all the wonderful friends and memories will last a lifetime,” the restaurant posted on Instagram. “Thank you so much for everything.” View this post on...
Subway bread isn’t bread, Irish court says
Ireland’s Supreme Court has ruled that bread sold by the fast food chain Subway contains so much sugar that it cannot be legally defined as bread. The ruling came in a tax dispute brought by Bookfinders Ltd., an Irish Subway franchisee, which argued that some of its takeaway products -...
Pittsburgh-area restaurant owners get creative to extend patio season as temps drop
When chef and restaurateur Brian Pekarcik contemplated how his two BRGR restaurants should approach this fall and winter, he thought of the restaurants’ perennial favorites: the Gobble Gobble turkey burger, a spiked pumpkin milkshake and a warmly spiced rum cocktail, among others. He also thought about covid-19 dining restrictions, many...
TribLive Taste Test: McDonald’s Spicy Chicken McNuggets 
As the weather got cooler, McDonald’s started heating up with the announcement that it would serve a spicy version of longstanding favorite Chicken McNuggets, along with a special “Mighty Hot Sauce,” for a limited time. TribLive Taste Test correspondent Patrick Varine is working out of “The Dungeon,” aka his basement...
Laurel Highlands Pour Tour relaunches with added locations
Thanks to interest in the region’s thriving craft beverage industry, the Laurel Highlands Pour Tour is returning for a second year. Since the tour launched in the fall of 2019, numerous new craft beverage locations have opened in the region, allowing version 2.0 to expand from about 30 to 45...
Cold weather means new challenges for struggling restaurants
U.S. restaurants are moving warily into fall, hoping their slow recovery persists despite the new challenge of chilly weather and a pandemic that’s expected to claim even more lives. New York opens indoor dining on Wednesday, restricting capacity to 25%. San Francisco may do the same as early as this...
Coca-Cola, Molson Coors teaming up on hard seltzer
SILVER SPRING, Md. — With the help of Molson Coors, Coca-Cola will start selling the “hard stuff” — hard seltzer, that is. The companies said the new alcoholic beverage will come in the form of Topo Chico Hard Seltzer, which they hope to have on store shelves in the first...
Celeb chef Guy Fieri to open restaurant at Live! Casino Pittsburgh in Hempfield
This sounds like a winning combination at Live! Casino Pittsburgh — a restaurant owned by Guy Fieri. An Emmy-award winning chef, restaurateur, New York Times best-selling author and television personality, Fieri is opening American Kitchen + Bar sometime this year, as was first reported by the Tribune-Review. “There is nothing...
Cool beans! Get some free perks on National Coffee Day 
Grab your cold press, your K-cup, your cafetiere — or hit your neighborhood cafe — it’s National Coffee Day. It’s a great time to be a coffee drinker, with the recent proliferation of coffee shops and at-home coffee- brewing equipment offering something for even the most discerning coffee palate. “Coffee...
Barstool’s Dave Portnoy takes a Pittsburgh bite out of Primanti’s 
Did Dave Portnoy just get tired of eating pizza? The Boston-based pizza reviewer and Barstool Sports founder has been bouncing between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia promoting his new sports betting app — and sampling as much pizza as he can stomach. Maybe Portnoy, who calls himself El Presidente, just needed a...
Western Pa. restaurants recognized for diverse wine selections
Pour a glass of wine and raise a toast. There are 17 Western Pennsylvania restaurants within a 50-mile radius of Pittsburgh that have been recognized — some for the first time — in Wine Spectator’s 2020 restaurant awards. Wine Spectator is a wine magazine that honors the world’s best wine...
Pittsburgh coffee van seeks musicians to create original, heavy metal jingle
The pure joy felt by children as they race toward an ice cream truck has few, if any, adult parallels. Perhaps it would be different if the truck sold coffee instead of ice cream and played heavy metal instead of a played-out nursery rhyme. It’s about to become a reality...
Mr. Smalls in Millvale switches focus to food, outdoor concerts
The scent of grilled burgers and Mexican street corn will fill Butler Street in Millvale on weekends as Mr. Smalls Cafe takes over the road for socially distanced food, friendship and live music. It is the latest move by the music venue to stay afloat after being hard hit by...
Bloomfield’s Little Italy Days rescheduled again
Bloomfield’s Little Italy Days festival has been moved to 2021. The four-day Italian festival was originally to be held in August. It was then moved to Oct. 8-11 because of the coronavirus pandemic. The event will, hopefully, go on in 2021, producer Sal Richetti said Wednesday. Dates are tentatively set...
Hilda’s Soul Food Kitchen in Homestead serves Southern fare
The plaque below the photo of Hilda Auburn reads: “Do small things with great love.” “My mother inspired me, because everything she did she did with love,” said her daughter Avis Williams, who opened Hilda’s Soul Food Kitchen in July in Homestead to honor her late mother. “I want this...


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