I texted my grandma from my view the end must’ve been on the water near the 16th st. bridge. It was beautiful.

i’ve seen school buses start to curve into the other lane when they’re letting kids off to make it so it can’t be passed. sucks it’s such an issue they’ve had to start doing that

It was staged.

Hell yeah! That's what adults do! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 🙄🤣

Is it secretly Kevin Sousa?

Fet-Fisk is phenomenal if you're able to try it, do it. Most of their pop-ups sell out rather quickly.

Nik is a great chef and a great person. The other two folks helping with logistics/planning/funding almost guarantee that this place will be fantastic. Greg is from 412 food rescue, and Kate runs Black Radish Kitchen in Point Breeze.

A brick and mortar location is gonna be amazing and something going into Lombardozzi's is a good thing.

Apteka is absolutely delicious. Both owners are some of the most wonderful people/chefs, and they deserve the love. Most importantly, they pay a fair and livable wage.

TLDR:. Both places absolutely deserve the love.

People driving like assholes have only themselves to blame. No one accepts "I had to get to work on time" as an excuse for anything.

Good for Apteka, that place owns.

I love it. The meat is extremely high quality and the prices aren't ridiculously crazy for what you're getting.

We bought 45 day dry aged ribeyes from them and it was hands down the best steak I've ever had.

I'll second Volkweins

I don’t use the circle a lot now, but when I did it everyday a long time ago, I liked that through traffic went underneath the circle, avoiding the traffic mess.

Thank you! I’m pretty close to moon actually so I’ll check out Volkweins.

F these idiots. parking in front of stores in fire lanes.

Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. The meta for this is changing and it’s useful to know what other people in your area are doing. I appreciated this post.

1. 10% usually
2. Don’t order delivery often but I feel like $5-$10 would be reasonable
3. 20%

not in the city but volkweins in moon/robinson and the brighton music shop in new brighton could easily and affordably take care of any instrument needs if you dont mind 20-40 mins of driving

It's not just the circle so I say it's not the light. For example today the traffic was backed up on corliss all the way the busway on chartiers. It took forever to get to carson street. Yesterday, exact same time there was zero traffic.

I worked downtown in the 90s and it was **exponentially worse** at the time. Homeless/mentally ill people taking a dump on the streets every day. Third and Fourth between Smithfield and Wood were so desolate back then, people would sleep on the street. Ppl would fall asleep and shit/piss themselves in the store I worked at on Smithfield every day.

Not to minimize at all that between the pandemic & lack of shelter/mental health services there's been a spike in people on the streets from who was there maybe 5-10 years ago. But downtown has never been a pristine experience. It may look prettier these days, filled with shiny places covered in white subway tile, but it's always been the messy, beating heart of the city.

This is even worse!

Yep I was just about to plug Waze too. I love Google Maps for browsing and searching, but Waze is 1000% better with navigation and traffic avoidance.

Also PAT busses.

Some jackass passed my stopped bus on the shoulder as I was getting off. My hand hurt for a week from repeatedly punching their shitty Rogue as it just missed me.

It takes about a year or longer for license

Most restaurants will likely lose money despite the incredible hard work that owners put into them. Most restaurant owners are undercapitalized and have no access to the lending that other businesses can access. No banks want to lend to restaurants. See first point above.

And so after doing a few thousand dish shifts, unclogging a few hundred toilets, canceling untold number of plans with family or friends because you have to cover a call off, taking no vacations (like literally zero), dealing with the general public (read every week there's an asshole), and too many other things to list here, you're lucky if your body hasn't broken down, you're not mentally strung out, and you're not broke. This is the life of overwhelming majority of restaurants owners.

I have no interest in Fet Fisk but I know the people involved and they are great people. They are not getting rich off this shit. They'll be lucky if they get fully funded and still don't go broke in three or four years. In the meanwhile, they will have created countless unforgettable dining experiences for Pittsburgh. But yeah, don't give them money, that would be an awful thing to do.

I used to do traffic studies at a previous job and they would only ever count Tuesday to Thursday. Mondays and Fridays were always different for some of the reasons you mentioned. Neat stuff.

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