Hi foodies! While I return home to the food mecca I want to share my experiences over the past two days in the strip district in Pittsburgh. There are some excellent restaurants and ethnic markets. There is some great food and I want to tell you all about my perspective of the food in Pittsburgh.
In my last post I told everyone about Lidia's Italy Pittsburgh which was spectacular. Another amazing place is Pamela's P & G Diner. The Foodie Finders NYC crew and I went to Pamela's P & G Diner for breakfast. Here is my review.
Pamela's P & G Diner 60 21st St., Pittsburgh, PA, 15222
One of the best breakfast restaurants in town has to be Pamela's P & G Diner. The best delicacy on the menu is the hot cakes. The hotcakes are like crepes and there is a variety of fillings. My personal favorite is the blueberry but I thought the strawberry was good as well. Besides the hotcakes there was a Tex Mex omelet which was delicious and filled with chorizo and cheese. The service was good and the food came out fast. The setting is nice and is a place to absolutely return to when in Pittsburgh.
Another great breakfast restaurant is DeLuca's. Here is my review.
DeLuca's 2015 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA, 15222
Depending on what you order this place goes from average to excellent. The pumpkin pancakes are incredible. They are full of flavor and are addicting. They have decent buttermilk pancakes but they just didn't stand out. All of their meats, like bacon, sausage and chorizo, were really delicious. The food was very good and is definitely a place I would return too.
Besides Breakfast I have one more diner restaurant that was just okay which is the Primanti Bros. A unanimous vote between me and the Foodie Finders NYC crew decided it was mediocer. Here is my review.
Primanti Bros. 46 18th St., Pittsburgh, PA, 15222
Sandwiches are just okay at Primanti Bros. There isn't much flavor to the sandwiches. Some of the sandwiches we got were sausage, pastrami, and cheese steak. Probably the best one was the sausage. There are fries that are on the sandwich that were pretty good though. it was like a bar-like atmosphere and the service was hurried. Primanti Bros. would not be a first choice when eating out in Pittsburgh.
Now besides restaurants, one ethnic market really stood out to me. It is Reyna Foods which is a Mexican grocery market. They had so many products that cannot be found many other places like Mexican chorizo (not to be confused with Spanish chorizo), wide variety of Mexican chocolate, many Mexican spices, Mexican bottled drinks, homemade tortillas, and more. Reyna Foods had some really great things and I wish a store like Reyna Foods was more local and closer to New York.
And that is all the food experiences jammed into a two day weekend in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (which also includes Lidia's Italy Pittsburgh from the last post). Pittsburgh has a lot of good food and I hope if any of you foodies are going to Pittsburgh that you'll find this useful. Please feel free to leave comments and check back for some foodie events in New York City and Long Island.
-Mike
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