Food & Drink category, Page 83
Taco Bell’s free taco promotion happening WednesdayVideo
Taco Bell’s “Steal a Base, Steal a Taco” promotion is a go this year and is happening Wednesday. The annual promotion offers diners a free taco if a base is stolen during the World Series. This year’s taco hero is Trea Turner of the Washington Nationals for taking a bag...
Nutty, cookie crust makes a better pumpkin pie
How do you make the classic pumpkin pie even better? Replace your basic pie crust with this delicious pecan sandy cookie crust instead. Pecan candies bring a delicious buttery, nutty goodness to everyone’s all-time favorite holiday pie. The unexpected twist adds some mild fun without upsetting the pumpkin pie purists....
What’s the difference between stock and broth?
For most of my cooking life, I thought “stock” and “broth” were just two different terms for the same thing. (Perhaps one was old timey and the other new age.) I didn’t really think much about those savory meat-flavored liquids beyond the occasion I wanted to make soup. But as...
Scary good cocktails make celebrating Halloween sweeter
With wineries holding trick-or-treat events for adults, and restaurants and bars hosting Halloween for the 21-and up crowd, who says the holiday is strictly for kids? And speaking of wineries and bars, what’s a holiday without a few special, signature cocktails? The mixologists at the Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel, where revelers...
The Wine Cellar: An insider’s peek at Northern Italy’s wineries
It’s a privilege to visit vineyards during the hectic harvest season. Seeing ripening grapes hanging heavily on the vines provides a thrill and creates an appreciation for the hard work required to produce a tasty bottle of wine. A recent tour of three leading northern Italian wineries proved the point....
Popeyes returns ‘sold out’ chicken sandwiches to menuVideo
Popeyes is announcing the return of its popular chicken sandwich by resuming its online “feud” with Chick-fil-A. The sandwich, which sold out in two weeks over the summer, will be available again — permanently — beginning Sunday, Nov. 3. Chick-fil-A outlets are closed on Sundays, a fact Popeyes notes with...
Millennials fueling hard cider craze
On a warm, sunny Saturday afternoon in October, dozens of people packed into the upper floor of South Side restaurant Steel Cactus for the start of a bar crawl. A bar crawl on the South Side is no feat, but this one eschewed beers and shots for hard cider. “It’s...
Frick Park Tavern opens in Regent Square at site of former Dunning’s GrillVideo
There’s a new restaurant at the site of the once-beloved Dunning’s Grill in Regent Square . Frick Park Tavern on Braddock Avenue opened Tuesday. Owner James Brown chose the name because his mother, Louise Brown, once worked as director of Citiparks, and he grew up close to Frick Park. Brown...
Bob Evans offers couples year’s worth of free date nights
If your date nights include comfort food — think mac and cheese, biscuits and gravy, chicken pot pie — you might be familiar with the menu items at Bob Evans restaurants. If you’d like to up your entree game, the “down on the farm” restaurant is releasing four new steak...
Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve in Unity offers fire cider demo, sample
Fire cider isn’t a variation on the caramel-colored apple beverage found at fruit stands each fall. It’s a trendy health tonic, typically made with apple cider vinegar, and Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve in Unity is ready to reveal how to concoct the liquid. The free pop-up workshop for adults is...
Pour Tour maps out Laurel Highlands’ craft beverage purveyorsVideo
West Overton Village and Museums in East Huntingdon anticipates reviving its own history by producing and selling whiskey by next year. Already, though, the historical site is a designated stop on the new Laurel Highlands Pour Tour, which offers free passports visitors can take to many of the region’s craft...
TRYP Hotel in Lawrenceville has dining options: Brick Shop and Over Eden
Brandon Blumenfeld is working double-time at TRYP Hotel in Lawrenceville. The chef helms the kitchen at the hotel’s two restaurants: Over Eden — a rooftop spot that opened in June — and Brick Shop, a more formal eatery on the ground floor that debuted its dinner menu Tuesday. Located in...
West Overton annual Whiskey Smash salutes its history
West Overton Village and Museums is planning its fifth annual Whiskey Smash, celebrating local distilleries and the popularity of craft whiskey and distilled products. The historical site in East Huntingdon holds the popular fundraiser to help ensure ongoing preservation and interpretation efforts. The fun begins at 6 p.m. Nov. 16...
Pa. baker creates life-size deer wedding cake
A couple asked a Lancaster County baker to create a wedding cake in the shape of a deer. The result has been deerly beloved on Facebook. Pam McNeal sculpted the life-size deer at Shady Maple Farm Market in East Earl, according to the market’s Facebook page. The couple provided the...
Pizza Hut testing plant-based pizza in round box
Round pizza. Square box. It’s an ages old problem, but one pizza chain thinks it has a solution. Pizza Hut is introducing a test of a specialty pizza with a plant-based topping called Incogmeato from Kellogg. The pizza will be delivered in a round box. Let that stink in -...
Sidewalk patio at Square Cafe in Regent Square can remain open, borough says
The outdoor seating at the Square Cafe in Regent Square, once in jeopardy, can remain open year-round, borough council members decided during a Monday meeting. Edgewood Borough members unanimously voted in favor of an amendment to adjust some of the seating to allow sidewalk access, filed by the popular restaurant’s...
Hershey’s Mini ranks as Pennsylvania’s favorite Halloween candy
You can’t keep a good candy bar down. Only two years after coming in third as Pennsylvania’s favorite Halloween candy, Hershey’s mini bars lands at No. 1 this year as the state’s most popular candy treat. Each year, Candystore.com adds up several years’ worth of sales figures — 12 to...
Samuel Adams’ most extreme and expensive beer now available
Samuel Adams is back with its latest version of Utopias, its extreme beer. Utopias is Sam Adams’ limited-release beer that clocks in at a whopping 28% ABV and sells for $210 a bottle. It has been available at select locations since last week and for the first time will be...
Hartwood Restaurant, a ‘hidden gem’ in Indiana Township, celebrates 10th anniversaryVideo
A best-kept dining secret is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Hartwood Restaurant and Whispers Pub, located at 3400 Harts Run Road in Indiana Township, is touted as a “hidden gem” by owners Kate and Jeff Fenton of Fox Chapel. “We have customers telling us that they never knew we existed here,”...
Red Robin’s fall menu has new items, brings back favorites
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Brews is introducing a new burger and bringing back a few fan favorites as part of a limited-time menu. Through Jan. 26, diners can enjoy the new French Onion Ringer. Topped with Swiss cheese, crispy onion straws, French onion spread and tomatoes on a melted...
Does outsourcing affect our personal connection to food?
The growing options for outsourcing meal planning, grocery shopping and cooking can be called time-saving blessings or culture-destroying curses. In the end, they’re probably a complicated mix of both. The positive spin goes something like this: Assuming you can afford it, you’ll save precious time by clicking a few digital...
Prantl’s Bakery and Platform Beer collaborate for a 2nd tasty brew
For a second time, 500 pounds of burnt almonds made their way from Pittsburgh to Cleveland — all in the name of beer. Platform Beer Co. and Prantl’s Bakery in Shadyside have collaborated on a second brew: a Chocolate Almond Torte Stout. It’s a twist on the first beer —...
Guillermo Rodriguez of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ stops at Pittsburgh’s Primanti Bros.Video
There was a special guest behind the bar on Wednesday at Primanti Bros. in the Strip District. Wearing a red Primanti Bros. T-shirt with the words “Bite Me” on the back, comedian Guillermo Rodriguez stopped by to film a segment for ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” He posed for photos with...
Poll: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups most popular candy
People — and this time of year, trick-or-treaters — really like peanut butter cups. Far and away the favorite candy bar in a new poll was Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, with 36% of respondents picking it as their favorite. Snickers are OK, too, with 18% picking that as their favorite....
Laurel Highlands Meadery sweetens production with expansion in South Greensburg
What began as a home hobby about 15 years ago has grown into an expanding business for Matt Falenski, with the recent opening of a second Laurel Highlands Meadery location. Falenski and his wife, Mandy, began manufacturing at their previous homes in Herminie and South Greensburg around 2010, selling their...
