Review: Sababa Middle Eastern Grill
Posted by mike | Filed under Reviews
Not all that long ago, Mr. Willies Barbecue closed its doors (and, in retrospect, foreshadowed the closure of Kazansky’s). Willies never seemed to really pull together something that got people excited, and eventually shuttered—and, yes, the missing apostrophe bothers me too. Whenever a restaurant closes like that, I see opportunity: I see it as a [...]
Review: Juice Box Cafe
Posted by mike | Filed under Reviews
I think I have a new Pittsburgh favorite in the Juice Box Cafe. This is actually the tail of my queue—my most recent restaurant visit. I’m bumping it to the top of the order because they really deserve it. My backlogged posts tend to go up in priority order anyway.
There’s a funny story in this [...]
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: Monterey Pub
Posted by mike | Filed under Beer, Reviews
I feel like I’ve had this one tucked away for a little while, but it’s enough of a hidden gem that I really couldn’t let it slide off my queue. I’ve been in Pittsburgh for years now, and I had never even heard of the Monterey Pub. On a bit of a whim, I recently [...]
Review: Yo Rita
Posted by mike | Filed under Reviews
Yo Rita. I have no idea what the name suggests, but it’s been on the tip of every Pittsburgh foodie’s tongue for more than a year now. Somewhat surprisingly, I had never made my way out there. Then, just when I was gearing up to make it my next stop, I realized that it ranked [...]
Review: Abay Ethiopian Cuisine
Posted by mike | Filed under Reviews
Pittsburgh is home to a wealth of small ethnic restaurants—most of them independently owned, and nearly all of them at least worth a visit. Having previously been scheduling most of my outings for the Pittsburgh Beer Meetup, those establishments just didn’t come up. On the other hand, the newly created The FoodBurgh Meetup brings a [...]
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: The Bar at 2132
Posted by mike | Filed under Beer, Reviews
Just before things got really busy for Christmas, I made my way over to the South Side after work to exchange gifts with a pair of friends. For the sake of some new FoodBurgh content, I had suggested we do the exchange at a relatively new place: The Bar @ 2132. I had been there [...]
Review: Carson Street Deli
Posted by mike | Filed under Reviews
One of my favorite trends in the restaurant world is the ever increasing prevalence of free WiFi. I’m always toting a laptop around, and don’t always have the benefit of a group of friends when I’m out looking for a new place to try (or even just a bite to eat). In the absence of [...]
Review: Fajita Grill (Ellsworth)
Posted by mike | Filed under Reviews
At some point, one of my readers recommended a FoodBurgh visit to Fajita Grill. When the request first came in, I snooped around the web a little and didn’t know what to think. Given the association with Si Senior, I suspected large-ish (but delicious) burritos and wraps—just like the ones I remember from my CMU [...]
