Hell, if you partook in the Pgh pizza challenges run by pghgooddeeds, you'd know you could slice any pizza into at least 36 slices.

Not for what this thread is about. But admittedly wages would come into it. So how about we say instead, there probably is a returning demand for late-evening non-bar locations for socializing, etc. Hopefully, these places will be providing a proper living wage to their employees.

Now that we're done trying to hijack via antiwork to the purpose of the thread:

Until the late 2000s, Pittsburgh was a very "close early" city. Outside of Bars, the city shutdown at 7 or 8pm. Anything that didn't involve drinking alcohol was closed. Downtown was DEAD. None of the bars existed on Penn Ave or 6th street (with a couple exceptions). But there was nowhere for anyone to go to socialize outside of a bar or a few restaurants.

We had exceptions as others have mentioned like The Beehive, The Hookah Lounge and other speakeasys where < 21 year olds could have something to do or others could have a place to socialize and mingle that wasn't overrun like South Side.

It took years for Pittsburgh to catch up with some of the "later night" crowds that had non-drinking alternatives and be a real city that could cater to people who had different hours and didn't conform to the 9-5 crowd.

Now everything seems to regressed back to like it was 10+ years ago.

Pizza Fiesta is the spot for cheap quality pizza

Same tho

I am going to be the outlier here and say that I was pretty obsessed with Doughbar pizza lol. And I don't think the prices were insane. It was luxury pizza with indulgent toppings for $20-25. Could easily feed 2-3 people, so less than $10/per person. Their pizzas were so good we literally brought all visitors there any chance we could bc we loved it, and everyone we brought loved it too. Don't even get me started on the whipped ricotta!!! And their thick crust was sooo good.

I think the bigger issue here was the size of the space, as some others have mentioned, and general economic challenges with supply chain and inflation hitting small businesses hard. Also saw 2 commenters say they worked for the owner previously and he's shitty and doesn't know how to run a business.

I just wanna defend their food bc I loved it a lot and will be sad to see this go, lol.

Yep. Chains like Olive Garden that is glorified fast food has become fine dining with the prices they charge. I don’t know what the answer is for this to get better. This pandemic really fucked things up bad.

Hooray for foot traffic! I have explored from shore to shore in this town, and I agree with you. Downtown is quiet most the day, even during the weekends.

I haven’t understood all the negative things I hear people have with exploring the city. I’ve had people tell me; don’t go to the south side, best to stay off the north shore, oh you’ll get killed downtown, you’ll get hit with a bullet on the west end, don’t get murdered in insert area here followed by absolute disgust and disbelief when I tell them that I have walked and explored a majority of this cities neighborhoods.

I was only threatened once in uptown, and tbh I was completely lost and probably looked shady.

I hear the same types of disgust when I mention that I use public transportation too. I don’t understand this mentality, what is wrong with public transportation? For a small city, it is decent and usually really clean.

Amen. But I do miss the dining out experience.

The Stack'd I went to in Gibsonia had one really nice seating area with booths but my wife and I were sat in a lower area that had all the vibes of an East German cafeteria.

Yes to Thai Tamarind, so consistently good! I liked EVIA but the portions seemed way small, that could just be me

Legit cost is what does it for us, we are a family of 5 and can’t get out of eat n park for less than 65 or 70 with tip now and they don’t serve alcohol. Dinner out once a week is now dinner out once a month.

Even fast food eating off the deals menus are 35 to 40.

I’m all for paying more if the money goes to the service workers and I understand the increases, but my household income hasn’t gone up enough to continue to eat out as we did even a year ago.

Yoo, domino's pan pizza is where it's at. Slight up charge, but so worth it. Bacon pineapple pan pizza is my go to.

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Honestly the most disappointing thing of my time as a Pitt student is that Antoons is now $11 for a large and yet pre-pandemic walking home from a party at 1am I could get a large from them for $6

Hog's Head Saloon is just some legit bar food and burgers.

We also like Bado's in Mt. Lebanon, nice beer selection and pizza/bar food.

If you're out of the city, Hollywood Gardens in Rochester, awesome vibe but their hours are very limited.

Have you guys ever been to Black Forge Coffee in Mckees Rocks? So much like the Beehive but goth. Lots of live music. And death metal yoga classes.

And Jolina’s is arguably even better.

The Blvd is the epicenter of Mediterranean grub in Western PA.

Is this place run by Souza?

We rarely go out as a family anymore. Most of the time if my wife and I want go out, we make something for the kids at home to save money. Or we drive though somewhere on our way home for them (fast food has gone up also though). And incomes definitely haven’t adjusted, my percentage raise every year is always the same.

Bad things can happen anywhere at any time

Yea I mean , i spent many nights there for years and never saw or heard stuff happening so I know it’s statistically rare but it’s also not unheard of for bad things to happen there before midnight

what is the cost of a membership to one of these places? They're not very clear on their website at all.

As others have said, it was an error between the billing department and the call center. Likely a (few) phone calls were due to go out, and it accidentally called everyone 🤦🏻‍♂️. If your account is in arrears you will get a “posting” which is a letter taped to your front door stating that your bill is past due. If you fail to pay your bill after a posting, you will then get a shutoff notice. After that is when you actually get your service cut off.

Source: me, I work there

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That's fortunate for all the people going out to dinner during business hours I guess.