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Recent Steelers trades got you down? (You know it’s bad when Primanti Brothers in the Strip District offers to trade $25 gift cards for Kenny Pickett jerseys.)
Here’s a different team that’s been dishing out wins while repping the black and gold for the past nine years.
Caliente Pizza and Draft House helped to prove that Pittsburgh’s a cut above the rest and brought home a handful of wins from the 2023 International Pizza Expo & Conference in Las Vegas. In the Pizza Games, the team took home first, second and fifth in the Pizza Triathalon, (Matt Hickey, Perry Bogacz and Max Mathious), second in the largest dough stretch contest (Hickey), third in the freestyle acrobatics contest (Hickey) and fifth in the fastest dough contest (Hickey).
Other Pittsburgh pizza makers recognized last year in the International Pizza Challenge were Sara Boyer of Iron Born Pizza who was third in the overall Non-Traditional Division and first in the Northeast and Rico Lunardi of Slice on Broadway who was third in the Traditional Division in the Northeast.
The 2024 expo is underway this week for its 40th year. At publication time, Caliente has already brought home third-place victories in three categories: Ooni Traditional Pizza, Northeast Nontraditional Pizza and Northeast Traditional Pizza.
Enough sauce — let’s get to the meat of this pizza pie.
Closings
South Side’s Irish pub poured its last pints on Sunday, March 17 — St. Patrick’s Day. In the Facebook post announcing the closure, the business did not indicate why the closure came about, only that its 85-year run was ending.
Patrons flooded the original and following posts with pictures and comments of support and sorrow.
Openings
Don’t mind the snow earlier this week; Page’s uncovered window means it’s officially spring!
The South Side scoop shop opened on Friday, March 8, and resumed its daily 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. hours. Page’s is usually open until mid-October, so there’s plenty of time for your ice cream fix.
There’s more than one ice cream shop in Pittsburgh, though. Here’s a quick list of NEXT staff favorites. If your pick didn’t make this list, drop me an email — I pinky-promise it’s for work and not for pleasure:
- Swissvale Dari Delite, 1990 Monongahela Ave., Swissvale. Opens March 21.
- Hours: Wednesdays through Sundays, 12 p.m. to 9 p.m.
- Twisters, 4210 Main St., Bloomfield. Opens March 21.
- Hours: Daily, 1 to 9 p.m.
- Sugar Spell Scoops, 1014 N. Canal St., Sharpsburg. Open now
- Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, 1 to 6 p.m., may change come summer.
One of French-Korean bakery Tous les Jours’ newest locations just opened on the cusp of Shadyside and East Liberty. The cafe offers tastes of both cultures — pain au chocolat, spinach and feta Danishes, red bean doughnuts, milk bread, honey cheese mochi pancakes, croque monsieurs and so many more. A cluster of coffees and teas seals the deal.
The ideal spot for a carbivore like myself.
Tous les Jours is open 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.
The wait is over — dinner reservations for Fet-Fisk’s new Bloomfield location go live on Monday, March 25.
For more information on the space and the veteran team’s plans, check out our previous coverage.
Come March 28, Fet-Fisk will be open Thursdays through Mondays from 5 p.m. to midnight.
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