We decided to return to our old stomping grounds for this Saturday Lunch outing. East Liberty and the surrounding areas are very different today from what they were in the 80s. Sears, the post office, and the McDonalds on Penn Circle drew us to that area when we were in grad school. Now, it's new … Continue reading Larder of East End
After a busy summer of road trips to visit our children, we are happy to be back at home and back into our routine. For out first official Saturday Lunch since returning home, we were seeking a something simple. Our initial ideal was to park downtown and look for a lunch place within a couple … Continue reading Peppi’s + Page Dairy Mart
We lived in Shadyside in the 80s - one of us in a house converted to apartments near Walnut St. (before the days of resident parking permits when on-street parking was nearly impossible to find on the weekends) and the other in the area alternately known as East Shadyside or Point Breeze near the old Nabisco … Continue reading Choolaah Indian BBQ
One thing consistently took us to Bloomfield in the 80s: the now-closed Del’s Bar & Ristorante, which was a popular spot for dinner and pitchers of beer in graduate school. The food was good, plentiful, and inexpensive. More recently, aside from an occasional meal at Tessaro's, Bloomfield was simply a neighborhood that we passed through … Continue reading Baby Loves Tacos
Our Saturday Lunch excursions are as much about experience as about the food. Our posts are not food reviews; you can find extensive reviews written by others about many of the places we will visit. Our intent to be more of a travelogue—sometimes the best meals have mediocre food, but great company and circumstances. It … Continue reading Revisiting Pizza Favorites – Part II
One final teaser before we start our official Saturday Lunch posts... Back in the 80s we frequented four pizza shops: Aiello's Pizza, Mineo's Pizza House, and Napoli Pizzeria, all in Squirrel Hill, and Vincent's Pizza Park in North Braddock. The Vinnie Pie was HUGE, feeding us for days. Remember the never-ending Parkway East construction in … Continue reading Revisiting Pizza Favorites