PM Dining Critic / Food Editor Hal B. Klein’s list of 25 restaurants reflects the state of dining in Pittsburgh as the region slowly emerges from the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic.
PM Dining Critic Hal B. Klein’s list of 31 restaurants reflects the way Pittsburgh dined throughout the COVID-19 pandemic while looking forward to what comes next. From sandwiches worth driving for to fine dining, we have you covered.
Our annual roundup of Pittsburgh's Best Restaurants covers a lot of ground. The list includes everything from fine dining at a resort hotel to a scrappy farm-to-table breakfast and lunch counter in Bloomfield.
Apteka, operated by Kate Lasky and Tomasz Skowronski, is a vegan eatery that draws on Lasky’s sixth-generation Pittsburgh roots and Skowronski’s Polish heritage.
This year we asked the chefs who appear on Pittsburgh Magazine’s Best Restaurants lists to answer seven questions; we received responses from 24 chefs. As was the case for our chefs’ polls in the previous two years, responses varied widely.
In addition to awarding Best Restaurant honors this year, our Independent Restaurant Review Panel also voted to recognize six chefs for their contributions to Pittsburgh’s culinary community in 2015.
We asked you to identify five our best restaurants from a picture of one of their dishes. Thanks to everyone who entered. Here are the winning answers.
The restaurant, a project of original Executive Chef Kevin Sousa and owners Doug and Liza Cruze, marked a turning point in Pittsburgh dining when it opened in September 2010.
Morcilla’s menu of Spanish cuisine is divided into small plates — which diners can enjoy at the front-room standing bar or in the 50-seat dining room — and platters, which are served only in the dining room.
Executive chefs often are given much of the credit for their restaurants’ success, but that praise would be hard to bestow if each did not lead an outstanding kitchen brigade.
Because the room seats only 10 people, you can book it for your own special event or share it with other people who are bound to become new friends by the end of the evening.
