Food & Drink category, Page 81

Authentic Neapolitan pizza and award-winning gelato has landed in O’Hara. Mercurio’s, a family owned and operated Italian eatery in Shadyside since 2012, opened a second location in June at 1335 Freeport Road. Three sibling co-owners, Anna Crucitt and Michael and Joe Mercurio, were raised around the original family gelato business...

Jeremy Bustamante, the respected bartender who poured drinks at Superior Motors restaurant in Braddock since it opened in 2017, has a new gig. He’s the the food and beverage director at Kingfly Spirits, a craft distillery, in the Strip District. Bustamante worked for Superior Motors chef Kevin Sousa since 2010...

Twenty-five years of ice cream, families and fun is worth celebrating anytime – especially on a warm summer’s evening. Pressley Ridge will be scooping up 14 different flavors of Graeter’s frozen dessert at its signature fundraiser, the 25th Pressley Ridge Ice Cream Fundae, from 6-9 p.m. Aug. 11 at Pittsburgh...

You don’t thrive in the restaurant business the way Gordon Ramsay has without developing a thick skin. That’s not to say a bad review doesn’t sting, but he can at least understand such evaluations are made by sampling his product. That was not the case with the initial reaction to...

Grant Saylor learned to brew beer on his back porch. Now he helps run Lincoln Avenue Brewery in the once-dry borough of Bellevue, where a May 2015 referendum overturned the longtime ban on liquor licenses. “We know it’s a leap of faith to try this business in a once-dry town,”...