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This, my friends, is a sandwich.
Pittsburgh is basking in Superbowlular glory, so it seems like a relevent time to sing the city's praises (have I mentioned I've been there and really liked it?).
Pittsburgh is great. It's got a dynamic, compact downtown. It's got the Warhol Museum. It has one of the best dinosaur fossil collections on the continent at the Carnegie (promounced "car-naggy") Museum.
It's got the Penguins, even if they're having a stupid year. It's got the sublime Monterey Bay Fish Grotto, where I had an amazing wasabi bloody mary last February.
It's got the Superbowl Champion Steelers.
Best of all though it's got regional haute cuisine in the form of sandwiches stuffed with French Fries and coleslaw. They're the pride of place dish at Primanti Brothers Restaurant, a downtown sandwich shack a few blocks from the hotel that says they invented 'em.
Truly, the food of champions! (And yes, I did eat it.)
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1 comment:
Good call. I always wonder about certain American cities, basically NE and/or midwest rust-belt cities you could call second tier. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Cleveland, even Milwaukee and Philadelphia. Who are these people, what are they about? Are they 2nd rate New Yorkers? Do they have their own 'thing'? Minneapolis and Chicago seem close enough to Canadian; the south is the south.
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