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   Cork & Crust4.7

   Oakland · $$$ · No. 12 of 157 overall

   A Forbes Five-Star chef came home and picked pizza as the hill to die on. Three-day dough, blistered and structurally serious - proof a hotel restaurant can be the whole reason you drive to Oakland.

   Order: The 72-hour dough pizza

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   Tessaro's American Bar & Hardwood Grill4.6

   Bloomfield · $$ · No. 22 of 157 overall

   The best burger in Pittsburgh and it has been for decades. Hardwood grill, butcher on site, no reinvention required. Cash flows, the bar is loud, and the char on that patty is the whole argument.

   Order: The hardwood-grilled burger

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   Bar Marco4.1

   Strip District · $$$ · No. 37 of 157 overall

   The old No. 1 Engine House, and one of the rooms that taught this city to take cocktails seriously. Menu turns over constantly, which is either the appeal or the risk depending on your mood.

   Order: Whatever the kitchen is excited about

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   Allegheny Wine Mixer3.9

   Lawrenceville · $$ · No. 45 of 157 overall

   A tiny Butler Street wine bar with a name that is a joke and a list that is not. Tell them what you like and let them ignore you productively.

   Order: A glass you have never heard of and a cheese plate

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   Colangelo's Pizza3.9

   Strip District · $ · No. 46 of 157 overall

   Strip District bakery counter doing tomato pie the old way: room temperature, heavy on the sauce, no cheese to speak of. Buy more than you think you need.

   Order: A square of tomato pie

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   Dancing Gnome Beer3.9

   Sharpsburg · $$ · No. 47 of 157 overall

   The hop people. Dancing Gnome makes the best IPAs in western Pennsylvania and knows it. Small taproom, serious beer, worth the drive up the river.

   Order: Lustra, every time

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   Fig & Ash3.9

   North Side · $$$ · No. 48 of 157 overall

   Everything meets the fire first, and this kitchen knows exactly when to pull it. Deutschtown's grown-up dinner - order across the wood-fired half of the menu and pass every plate around.

   Order: Whatever came off the wood fire

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   La Prima Espresso Company - Strip District3.9

   Strip District · $ · No. 50 of 157 overall

   Old men arguing in Italian over tiny cups at seven in the morning. No laptops, no oat milk theatre, just the best espresso in the city served the way it should be.

   Order: Espresso, standing up

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   Le Mont Restaurant3.9

   Mt. Washington · $$$$ · No. 51 of 157 overall

   The Grandview institution: white tablecloths, tableside flambe, and the best window in Pennsylvania. You are paying for the view and the theatre, and on an anniversary that is a fair trade.

   Order: Chateaubriand and the skyline

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    Piper's Pub3.9

    South Side · $$ · No. 55 of 157 overall

    Two hundred-odd whiskies and a kitchen that takes bar food seriously. The Scotch egg is the order, the whisky list is the reason you stay for three more.

    Order: Scotch eggs and a whisky flight

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