Downtown Neighbors Alliance went to PaPa J’s this week to taste their wedding soup. We made a great choice of restaurants and a great selection to try. Wedding soup is sometimes called Italian Penicillin, because this bone broth soup is a comfort food that heals the sick.

Michael Troiani has been around the restaurant industry his whole life. As one of eight children, he jokes that “a Sunday dinner was like a restaurant event.” When he was 9, his father opened Papa J’s first location in Cranberry where he spent his youth cleaning tables and his later years in the kitchen before taking the reins of ownership around 2000.

This week the DNA staff went to a few downtown restaurants and shared a few meals. The consensus was the Broccoli Chicken entree at Nicky's Thai was the best dish we ate this week.