4 ranked
The best Brewpub restaurants in Pittsburgh
4 Brewpub kitchens on the map, all in the same price bracket. Strip District carries the most of them, and every one is ranked by the same 1-5 score as the rest of the site.
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Strip District · $$ · No. 119 of 157 overall
The big Smallman warehouse where the beer is genuinely excellent and the kitchen refuses to coast. Loud, industrial, good for a group that can't agree on anything.
Order: A hazy pint and the fried chicken
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Squirrel Hill · $$ · No. 122 of 157 overall
Squirrel Hill's beer bar, pouring almost exclusively Pennsylvania breweries. Knowledgeable without being insufferable about it.
Order: A local draft and the beef empanadas
- 3Penn Brewery3.1
North Side · $$ · No. 143 of 157 overall
The city's oldest craft brewery, doing German food in Troy Hill's shadow. The lagers are the real accomplishment. Go when the biergarten is open.
Order: A pierogi plate and a lager
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Lawrenceville · $$ · No. 146 of 157 overall
Yes, it is a brewery inside a deconsecrated church, and yes the copper kettles sit where the altar was. Tourist bait that happens to brew genuinely good beer. Go once for the room, stay for the pierogi pizza.
Order: A pierogi pizza under the altar
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Every list on this site is cut from the same board: 157 restaurants scored 1-5 by one critic, where nothing can be bought. How the ratings work →