Category Archives: Brookline

Get your PÄ…czki soon!

PÄ…czki (pronounced ponch-key) are a traditional Polish doughnut filled with jelly or another sweet filling. In Poland, they are traditionally eaten on Tlusty Czwartek – Fat Thursday – the Thursday before Lent. In the US, we eat them on Tlusty Wtorek, Fat Tuesday. Traditionally, these little doughnuts were made to use up all the sweet more

Sandwiches at Il Padrino

I absolutely had to add a post regarding my Brookline neighborhood. I love that it still has a city neighborhood feel to it. People that grew up there still know each other and their families. It’s great! Adding to its uniqueness is a fabulous new eatery, Il Padrino. On Brookline Blvd., there are many pizza places, drug stores, bars, that you can more

Pitaland

So, let’s just admit it. A lot of our East End friends don’t know how to cross rivers (and vice versa.) But let’s not forget about the Pittsburgh neighborhoods beyond tunnels and bridges. One of them being the lovely Brookline, in Southern Pittsburgh (just across the Liberty Tubes.) Brookline in itself is awesome. Think plenty of shade trees along more