Review: Pi Coal Fired
Posted by mike | Filed under Beer, Reviews
I’m not typically a fan of pizza—mostly because so little of it is actually worth the calories involved. Then, every once in a while, I hear about a new pizza place—one that looks like it might actually serve some really good pizza. At that point, the pull of trying a new place overcomes the opposing [...]
Review: Dinette
Posted by mike | Filed under Reviews
Dinette is one of those places that just about everyone has told me I need to hit up, but yet I knew very little about. Part of that is because they’re in a part of town I don’t frequent all that often (East Liberty), and part of that is because they’re pretty well hidden even [...]
Review: Blue Grotto Pizza
Posted by mike | Filed under Reviews
Months ago, a friend of mine at work was raving about a Pizza Place in the South Side: Giotto’s. A quick Urbanspoon search for the place turned up nothing. Unwilling to give up, I kept on digging until I finally figured out that the place had changed its name—to Blue Grotto Pizza. Fast forward to [...]
Review: Aiello’s Pizza
Posted by mike | Filed under Reviews
There’s an ongoing battle in the Squirrel Hill pizza scene. Don’t be distracted by the more recent entrants. They all serve up decent pizza, but they’ll never have the fan base of either Mineo’s or their detested stepchild Aiello’s. Both offer completely different pizzas, and both boast a cult of (mutually exclusive) followers. At the [...]
