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Best in Class: Our 2014 Chefs of the Year
photos by Laura Petrilla To recognize the city's accelerating restaurant scene, our independent dining panel wanted to recognize a group of elite Pittsburgh chefs as opposed to one or two...
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Best New Restaurant 2014: Grit & Grace
Photos by Laura Petrilla Although Grit & Grace is but one of the top-notch restaurants that opened here in 2013, it sets itself apart with imaginative cuisine and a polished interior. “Grit...
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Best Restaurants 2014: Readers' Poll Winners
E2 photo by Laura Petrilla Al Fresco ➊Pusadee’s Garden pusadeesgarden.com ➋Arpino Trattoria arpinotrattoria.com ➌Andora Restaurant andorarestaurant.com Atmosphere/Ambiance ➊Eleven elevenck.com...
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Best Restaurants 2014
As we celebrate our 25th Best Restaurants edition, it is our sincere pleasure to present this year’s list of 33 Best Restaurants. We welcome some newcomers — including Butcher and the Rye, Grit &...
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Pittsburgh Chefs Share Opinions on Customers, Each Other
Photos by Laura Petrilla (from left) Richard DeShantz, Trevett Hooper, Justin Severino and Brian Pekarcik Restaurants increasingly are associated with the personalities of the chef whose name...
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Special Events that Help Shape Pittsburgh's Food Scene
PHOTO BY RODGER OBLEY Our independent Restaurant Review Panel also opted to highlight a number of special dining events this year that enhanced the city’s culinary experiences by engaging diners...
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2015 Best New Dining Experience: The Wine Room at Bar Marco
photo courtesy of bar marco Every Wednesday through Saturday night The Wine Room at Bar Marco hosts a special event, where Executive Chef Jamilka Borges prepares tasting menus that are beautiful...
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2015 Delicious Design Winner: Not One Bad Seat at Altius
photos by laura petrilla When architect and designer Teresa Bucco started thinking about how she and her team would design Altius, which opened in the old Georgetown Inn space in 2014, she knew she...
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2015 Delicious Design Winner: Sienna Mercato is Three Restaurants in One
photos by Laura Petrilla The owners of Sienna Mercato had ambitious plans for their three-restaurant concept when they secured a long term lease on the old Trombino Piano Gallerie building...
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The Right Recipe: Spy Inside 5 Killer Kitchens
This year, our independent restaurant review panel celebrates five Killer Kitchens — the teams of largely unsung sous chefs, line cooks, prep cooks and dishwashers who work behind the executive chefs...
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Best Restaurants 2015
PHOTOS BY LAURA PETRILLA AND CHUCK BEARD This year, our independent Restaurant Review Panel has recommended 33 establishments for the Pittsburgh Magazine Best Restaurants list. We welcome a few...
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Delicious Design: Monterey Bay
newly renovated lower lounge at monterey bay fish grotto/photos by laura petrilla The biggest challenge Moss Architects faced during their redesign of Monterey Bay Fish Grotto wasn’t what to add but...
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Best New Restaurant in Pittsburgh: Morcilla
Justin Severino (left) and Nate Hobart/photos by laura petrilla Given the bumper crop of outstanding restaurants that opened in Pittsburgh last year — eight of them now are among our “Best...
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Fond Goodbye: Salt of the Earth
As Pittsburgh Magazine’s restaurant critic and food editor, I wanted to pay homage to what I felt was the most significant local restaurant closing of 2015. Salt of the Earth in Garfield shuttered on...
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Chef’s Poll: Pittsburgh Chefs Speak Up
This year we sent a list of seven questions to the chefs who appear on our Best Restaurants list, and we received responses from 25 chefs. In a reprise of our findings from last year’s poll,...
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Best Restaurant Contest: Winning Answers
photo by hal b. klein Lawrenceville: 3519 Butler St. 412/652-9924, morcillapittsburgh.com Executive Chef/Co-owner Justin Severino photos by laura petrilla Downtown: 214 Sixth St. 412/471-8256;...
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Six Pittsburgh Chefs Who Are Outstanding in Their Field
Photos by laura petrilla Pittsburgh Magazine recognizes five outstanding chefs for their extraordinary work in their specific fields: Kristin Butterworth, the chef de cuisine at Lautrec, takes...
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Best Restaurants 2016
This year, our independent restaurant review panel recommends 33 establishments to be honored on Pittsburgh Magazine’s Best Restaurants list. The biggest point of discussion and contention for our...
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Fond Goodbyes: Three Pittsburgh Restaurants We Will Miss
We lost some good ones in the past year. Perennial Pittsburgh Magazine Best Restaurant honorees Root 174, e2 and Dish Osteria and Bar all shut their doors since we last published a Best Restaurants...
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Chef's Poll 2017: Pittsburgh Chefs Speak Up
photo by laura petrilla This year, we asked chefs to name their choice for Pittsburgh’s Rising Star chef. It’s fair to say that there’s a bright future for the city: Kate Lasky and Tomasz Skowronski...
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Pittsburgh's Best Delicious Design: Cocothé
photos by laura petrilla It’s not just the food that’s beautifully crafted at Cocothé in Sewickley. The restaurant’s interior — from its deep display windows to its shimmering black granite bar —...
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Pittsburgh's Best New Restaurant: Apteka
An array of vegan dishes such as Kreple ziemniaczane z grzybami (top, left) and Kapusta z marchewka (bottom, right) entices diners at Apteka | photos by Laura Petrilla For years, it was an ongoing...
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Pittsburgh Chef of the Year: Bill Fuller
Story by Hal B. Klein | Photos by Laura Petrilla Bill Fuller last was Pittsburgh Magazine’s Chef of the Year in 1998. An accompanying photograph depicts the chef, then 30, as Don Juan of the kitchen,...
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Best Restaurants 2017
We go out to eat for different reasons. Some diners are drawn to an exploration of cuisine and are more interested in what’s on the plate than the the atmosphere that surrounds them. Other diners...
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Best Restaurants 2018
photo courtesy fl. 2 For a more recent Best Restaurants List, head to our 2019 List here. Pittsburgh’s dining options are expanding, and so is Pittsburgh Magazine’s annual Best Restaurants list. This...
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Best Restaurants in Pittsburgh in 2019
Pittsburgh Magazine’s 2019 Best Restaurants list is shorter than it has been in previous years; 30 establishments are honored. The relative brevity of the list is the result of the continued growth...
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Best Restaurants in Pittsburgh
Editor’s note: we have removed the restaurants that have closed since this feature was first published in May 2019 and no new restaurants have been added to the list. Due to COVID-19 safety measures,...
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The Best Restaurants in Pittsburgh
It’s been 14 months since Gov. Tom Wolf issued a public health directive for restaurants to close during the initial, uncertain wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. In that time, I’ve organized picnics in...
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The 25 Best Restaurants in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh restaurants are moving through a period of transition, resetting and restructuring. So this year, I’ve dialed back the Best Restaurants list to 25 establishments. What was I looking for...
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Here Are The 25 Best Restaurants in Pittsburgh
SCALLOP CRUDO AT COAST & MAIN I read somewhere (probably online, so the validity is questionable) that there are so many restaurants in New York City, a person could dine out every night for 54...
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