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The Eats of Pittsburgh: Fries on Everything!
Mar 24, 2025
Pittsburgh, Steel City, the city of bridges, but it really should be called the city that puts fries on a lot of stuff. From the famous Primanti Bros sandwiches to a Pittsburgh Salad you will see fries in many interesting places in Pittsburgh. There are a number of wonderful treats from milkshakes to smiley cookies to crepe pancakes at Pamela's. Here are some of our favorite eats of Pittsburgh. Filmed in Pittsburgh, PA Copyright Mark Wolters 2022 Learn how to plan your travels like we do with our Travel Planning 101 Course: https://www.brighttrip.com/woltersworld Visit Our Amazon Store for Drinkware, cookingware, travel gear, and other necessities of life. http://www.amazon.com/shop/woltersworld Follow Jocelyn on Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/jocelynwoltersworld Follow Simply Jocelyn on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Simply-Jocelyn-A-Globally-Inspired-Life-100312851709273/ Follow Our Shorts Channel for quick travel tips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmSIWRrLCcqamLlTEEBLFLA
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Hey there fellow hungry travelers, Mark here with Walter's World Eats and today we're here in
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Pittsburgh, the Steel City, and we're going to talk about what you need to eat when you come here
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to the Steel City and know you don't have to have a steel gut to enjoy the food here in Pittsburgh
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and probably the most famous thing from Pittsburgh are the Primanti Brothers sandwiches. There's
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actually a chain of restaurants. Primanti Brothers make these incredible, incredible sandwiches
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but their kind of shtick is you have the Italian bread on the bottom, then you've got the meat
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And then you've got coleslaw and tomatoes on there. And then fries on top
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And then the other slice of bread. So when you order your meal, it all comes in one sandwich
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But I'll be honest with you. It can be a bit much sometimes when you do get one if you're not ready for it
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And it can be a bit messy. So just be ready to have a really big mouth to bite on to one of those Ramatis Brothers sandwiches
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Because they are good. And there's a number of them around town. You can go on to the Strip District to have one there
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There's one at Market Square. it's kind of becoming a bigger thing but this is where it's from that's one thing you have to have
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no matter who you talk to from pittsburgh that'll be the first thing they'll tell you have to eat
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when you're here is a primanti brothers sandwich okay you got to get that and and those fries on
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top theme that's very much a pittsburgh thing like they love getting their fries on top of stuff so
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if you get a salad in pittsburgh okay some people say oh it's a pittsburgh salad but honestly if
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you order a chicken salad when you're here in pittsburgh don't be surprised if there's actually
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french fries on top like you actually have to order your chicken salad without fries and if you
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go to sheets which you will when you're here and you're doing one of their self-ordering things
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whether you're getting a burger or whether you're getting a salad it says oh fries on top and i'm
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my wife going don't they mean fries on the side no no no no no even a pittsburgh salad has fries
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in there now if you think of pittsburgh salad it's a normal side lettuce and veggies and some
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cheese and some meat and stuff but yeah french fries on top and i guess another thing you can get to the Primanti Brothers but other places too It the Pitts Burger which is just again it a burger instead of the deli meat with the burger the coleslaw tomato and then the fries on top
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You got to have that. So it's the fries on top thing is really a thing here
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I mean, I think it's like the number one don't I have when you come to Pittsburgh
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If you watch our travel channel, it's just like, dude, what's with the fries on everything or in everything
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It's not really odd. It's more in. It's crazy. Now, something that isn't French fry based are the pierogies
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So you have a lot of Polish immigration here in Pittsburgh and so they brought their food too
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And you can have fantastic pierogies. You're not sure what those are. They give them kind of like dumplings or raviolis from Poland and there's different flavors
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Like you can have it with the meat inside. But my personal favorite, if you get them with the fruit inside, oh, it can make a fantastic dessert or starter or just a meal
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And they're just great. So if you get a chance to get pierogies when you're here, you gotta have pierogies. Now another sandwich you might have when you're here, which seems to be more of a thing you'll have at home than you'll have at restaurants
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You can still find it some places. It's actually a chipped ham sandwich or barbecue sandwich
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Basically, it just looks like deli ham. There's some chunks of ham in there as well
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And some barbecue sauce on a roll. You'll have that. That's kind of a quick grab-and-go kind of thing
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Again, you don't see a lot in the restaurants so much, but you will know that the locals do like it
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So another thing you might see on the appetizer menu here are zucchini planks
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This is one thing that my mom really liked and she wanted to make sure I mentioned. and basically what zucchini planks are sorry i'm getting it's food i get excited it's hot i'm like
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oh i need to go in and get an iron city beer because i'm dying anyway so if you want to look
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at a zucchini plank basically what you do is it's thinly sliced zucchini you know like a strip of it
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and they'll season it then fry it up a little bit it's really really good with a beer to like just
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chat with friends you don't see it as often as you used to on the menus i feel compared to what
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my mom was talking about at least so it could be one of those things you might want to grab when
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you're here and that's why it's important to mention those beer snacks
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you want to have the right beer and you want to have iron city beer when you here iron city brewery there actually a sign for it up by the incline over there going up to Mount Washington And you see it I sure there be a video of it somewhere
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But Iron City beer is a thing here. And there's typically Iron City beer and there's icy light and stuff
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But I know when I told my friends I was coming to Pittsburgh back home in Illinois, they're like, oh, you got to bring me some Iron City beer
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I'm like, all right, all right, I'll get you a case or something. Because who knows how the liquor laws are here when you're looking at Pittsburgh
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when I'm buying my liquor and I'm buying my beer. But yeah, Iron City beer is what you should have when you're here
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And they have other local breweries you can have as well, no problem. But I mean, Iron City is kind of the original
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Now it's getting hot. I mean, you can't tell from me dripping on my fat self
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And I think it's time to talk about some things that might help you cool off when you're here. Now, last night, it was a nice warm summer's evening and we went to the Milkshake Factory
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There's one here in downtown and it is fantastic. They make some of the best milkshakes I've ever had
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It's not the, oh, I've got to suck my brain out to get it out. It's a perfect balance of ice cream and flavors
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They have all kinds. I have banana fosters. Jocelyn had a non-dairy milkshake yesterday that was actually fantastic
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I mean, so the milkshake factory is a definite, definite thing you've got to go see and do and drink when you're here
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That's really nice. Millie's ice cream. You just want to get some ice cream when you're here. now the ice cream stuff is really nice here but i think if you want a true pittsburgh institution
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you gotta go and get gus and yaya's shaved ice i mean honestly if you're going up you're on the
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north side of town okay you got to go to alganity commons park you go there and you'll see just a
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like an old dude with a cart he's got a little cart there and he's got shaved ice and you gotta
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go i mean it's like it's a thing that people have to do when you're here so go and see gus okay go
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to Gus and Yaya's and get that shaved ice and just help support a local institution here
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in Pittsburgh. And speaking of another local institution, if you're looking for breakfast, Pamela's
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is a very popular place and they have a few locations Probably the most popular one is in the Strip District and you can go there They have great breakfast there But what you want to get when you there are their crepe pancakes
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That's what you want to have for breakfast when you're there. I mean, they have other food during the day. But, I mean, honestly, it's the crepe pancakes you've got to have
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I mean, that's another one of those places that my local friend said, Look, you've got to go to Pabadi Brothers
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You've got to get a sandwich. And you've got to go to Pamela's and have the pancakes, the crepe pancakes
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Okay? I'm like, All right. All right. I'm on it. I'm on it. So that's one of those things
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And I'll be honest with you. If you're here in Pittsburgh or you know anybody from Pittsburgh, they will gladly tell you the best restaurants to go to, the best place to go eat, drink, make merry
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And what's cool is when you come to Pittsburgh, this is very much a city of neighborhoods, of districts
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So you might want to go eat at the Strip District or maybe you're going to the Mexican War Streets District or maybe you're just North Shore
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You're going to the universities, going up to Mount Washington. You have so many different dishes, so many different vibes, so many different foods to have that you really can explore and have a different kind of taste in different parts of the city
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But no matter where you are, if you see a Sheetz, Sheetz will help you out with food whenever you need it
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If you're not sure what Sheetz is, it's a gas station, okay? And convenience store, and mini mart, and Western Pennsylvania institution, okay
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And so when you're driving around, you see a Sheetz, go in. because you know usually when you go to a gas station they have just a pre-made food sitting
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there there no you go on the kiosk and you order your stuff remember you can go up and make your
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own salad like you put in what you want and you know the french fries come on top yeah you can go
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there and make that they have breakfast it's a good backup breakfast place too if you're going
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to be on the road just pull in grab some stuff you'll order there they do it really quick but
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honestly sheets is one of those things yes gas station food is good it's good here in pittsburgh
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okay and all western Pennsylvania so so don't knock it when you're here okay so there's a lot
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of other great food to have when you're here in Pittsburgh but I want to ask you if you've been
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to Pittsburgh what's the food that you love put in the comment section below so people can have
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some more good eats in this great steel city bye from here in Pittsburgh
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