My spouse and I visited Pittsburgh for the long Labor Day
holiday weekend in early September 2019. Even though the Pitt - Virginia
football game wasn’t until Saturday evening, we still left early in the morning
so that we could make a stop in Lawrenceville (a gentrifying neighborhood adjacent
to Pittsburgh that we hadn’t yet visited). We ate lunch at the Merchant Oyster
Company, followed by drinks (and some take-away sweet corn ice cream) at SMOKE
Barbecue Taqueria (we tried the restaurant’s full menu later in the season). We
stayed at the Hampton Inn, where we have stayed many times previously. After
the game (Pitt lost 14 - 30), on the way back to the hotel, we stopped in at a
new bar called Bridges and Bourbon (where we witnessed the staff making great
theatrical drinks). Because it was a holiday weekend and we didn’t have to
leave for home on Sunday like we normally do, we instead took the opportunity
to go back to the Pitt campus, where we visited the Carnegie Museum of Art
(CMOA) and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH), with a stop for
brunch in between at the museum’s excellent Café Carnegie. That night, we went
back to Lawrenceville for a delicious dinner at Morcilla (a Spanish tapas
restaurant that we’ve been trying to get to for awhile). In the morning, before
our drive home, we stopped (again!) in Lawrenceville for brunch at the Industry
Public House.
Hotel:
- Hampton Inn Downtown Pittsburgh Link to my review
- Merchant Oyster Company Link to my review
- Smoke BBQ Taqueria Link to my review
- Bridges and Bourbon Link to my review
- Morcilla Link to my review
- Industry Public House Link to my review
- Cafe Carnegie at the CMOA Link to my review
- Carnegie Museum of Art Link to my review
- Carnegie Museum of Natural History Link to my review
