Vegan style dishes are more popular than they once were. Many restaurants Downtown make it possible to get your greens while also enjoying a great meal. DNA has compiled our top seven choices for plant-based bites in the Golden Triangle.

Hurricane Sandy. Merril Hoge. Chicken and barley soup. Instagram. What do all of these seemingly random things have in common? Believe it or not, they have all played a role in Chef James Henry’s journey to becoming a decorated and visibly passionate chef and make for an origin story that, in his own words, “is so funny.”

This week, the DNA staff took advantage of the sunny weather and took a walk to Primo Hoagies’ new location on Penn Avenue.

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.

I am so proud to live in Downtown Pittsburgh! This is my home! Leaving Downtown is your choice. Going public about wanting to move your business out of downtown is also your choice, but doing that just makes the problems harder to resolve for the rest of us.