Primanti Brothers, in an old warehouse district by the Allegheny River known as the Strip, boasts perhaps the city’s best-known sandwiches. (John Colombo / For The Times)
Primanti Manager Toni Corradetti takes a slab of Italian bread and adorns it with diners’ choices of a couple of dozen meats (pastrami, Italian sausage, etc.), and tops it all with sweet and sour coleslaw, sliced tomato and chunky French fries. That’s a sandwich, Pittsburgh style. (John Colombo / For The Times)
Jan Puglin serves a beer sampler at Max’s Allegheny Tavern. (John Colombo / For The Times)
Bloomfield Bridge Tavern may be located in Pittsburgh’s Little Italy, but it’s a self-proclaimed “Polish Party House” known for its outstanding pirogis. (John Colombo / For The Times)
Bloomfield Bridge Tavern is known for pirogis, but feel free to partake of them as part of a sampler platter with other Polish treats, such as golabki (stuffed cabbage) and kluski (noodles and cottage cheese). (John Colombo / For The Times)
Del’s Bar & Ristorante DelPizzo is renowned for Italian classics: more than 150 combinations of pastas and sauces, lasagna, eggplant parmigiana, and entrees such as chicken Marsala. It also boasts a U-shaped bar decked out with Steelers memorabilia. (John Colombo / For The Times)
