National Ice Cream Month: 6 Places to Get Cold Sweet Treats in Downtown Pittsburgh
July is National Ice Cream Month and there is truly no better time to celebrate it. With temperatures and the humidity only continuing to rise all month, enjoying a cold ice cream cone or milkshake inside has never sounded better.
The Best Meal We Ate This Week: Wedding Soup at Papa J’s
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.
Best Chefs in Pittsburgh: How Michael Troiani Carries on Family Traditions Through Food at Papa J’s
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.