Category Archives: Bars

Bring on the Bacon Tour – Bacon Book, Bacon Cupcakes and more Bacon

Uncooked streaky bacon.
Image via Wikipedia

WARNING: If you are a vegetarian you might want to skip this post – it is 100% about bacon.

IheartPGH owes alot to bacon, we didn’t really think much of this blog and only a handful of our friends read this little website – and four years ago that was a pretty small group of people that were willing to read a blog. But then we posted about Bacon Night (TGIB – Bacon Night 11/18/2005)at the Harris Grill and somehow the Post-Gazette found that post and mentioned this humble little blog in the paper and things started to change.

So I have noticed that bacon is kind of a big deal for many of our readers so here is an event for the bacon lovers.

The Blue Ribbon Bacon Tour, Saturday, September 26, 11:00 – 4:00, Harris Grill – $30 gets you 5 hours of bacon goodness. You can even purchase a signed copy of the book Bacon: A Love Story: A Salty Survey of Everybody’s Favorite Meat. A must read for the bacon enthusiast. Continue reading →

Next Best Thing to Heinz Field – Places to Watch the Steeler Game in Pittsburgh

#38 of the..." src="http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0bE7brj8YPchJ/150x120.jpg" alt="PITTSBURGH - AUGUST 28: Carey Davis #38 of the..." width="150" height="120" />
Image by Getty Images via Daylife

UPDATED 9/15 – Added Mullaney’s Harp and Fiddle in the Strip District.

We have been doing a lot of talk about best places to watch the Steelers outside of Pittsburgh – new places are being added to the Steeler Bar Map daily! But we wanted to find out where Pittsburghers in Pittsburgh watch the game. Here are the suggestions we have recieved:

Bellevue

Millvale

Lawrenceville

  • The Thunderbird Cafe – Robert says “The Thunderbird (in Lawrenceville) is a cool place with a good beer selection, a friendly crowd and a huge projection screen to watch on. Good times.”
  • Round Corner Cantina – Christina says “their kitchen opens tonight too! Mexican food, yummy cocktails + Stillers = <3 <3”

Mt. Washington

Station Square

South Side:

Greenfield

East Liberty

  • AVA – Sarah says “AVA for the taco wings”

Shadyside

Bloomfield

  • Matt says “anywhere in Bloomfield, especially at Captain Bloomfield’s sidewalk living room in the 4500 block of Liberty Ave”
  • Nico’s Recovery Room – Henry says “I dont live in the burgh anymore, but Nico’s recovery room is defiantly the best place to go in the EastEnd. For one thing you get to whatch the game whist rubbing elbows with people that have been fans since the iron curtain days, and there’s the free Isaly’s BBQ sandwiches (or other regionally appropriate fare) free at the half!”

Strip District

Greensburg

Greentree

Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

Santarchy 2008

Description unavailableImage by TfUnQ via FlickrI was just wondering if these guys were going to be organizing an event for this year.  I did a little research and this event has made it to IheartPGH every year (2005, 2006, 2007).  Santarchy is an afternoon bar crawl where everyone dresses like Santa.

The Santas will meet at the fountain by the Cheesecake Factory in Southside works at 2pm on Saturday, December 13, 2008.  Click here for all the details.  The event is free – you pay for your own drinks.  Just wear your Santa costume.

YES, you MUST wear a costume. NO, you can NOT get by with a red shirt and Santa hat. BE CREATIVE, ya lazy bum! You don’t have to look like Santa, but you MUST NOT look like you. Jeans, in particular, will be removed and destroyed without warning.

Continue reading →

Git Aht – Things To Do This Weekend (Boo n'at)

(Things to do while pretty much condemning your next kid to a lifetime of fighting other kids at the playground…)

Friday

The Great Glass Pumpkin (And Make Your Own, Kinda) The Pittsburgh Glass Center, ‘SLiberty(ish), 6-9 p.m.
Glory Hole At The Hot JamMake your own glass pumpkin for 25 bucks, or just attend the event for free and see artisans practicing their craft, which is also part science. It truly is an awesome thing to watch. Plus, you can see their Glory Hole, which is helpfully pictured at left. Seriously. That’s what the opening to the furnace is called. A Glory Hole. Enjoy saying it all night long, over and over to the absolute consternation of those around you. Be That Guy. Glory Hole.

(Linds! Don’t think of it as me being my regular juvenile self! Instead, think of all the accidental traffic this post will get from google now! We’ll be rich! It’s a gravy train with biscuit wheels, baby! And we’re in the bar car with forks and knives!)

Lisdoonvarna (8th Annual Matchmaking Festival Mullaney’s Harp & Fiddle, The Strip, 7 p.m.
Apparently they’ll have matchmakers on hand. In my neighborhood growing up, we called them “Pimps” or “Bartenders”, but whatever… It looks like a fun Friday night at Mullaney’s where you could meet someone and fall in like. With beer. Mythbusters just proved that the Theory Of Beer Goggles, wherein the opposite sex becomes more attractive the more you drink, is indeed plausible. I would heartily suggest you try the experiment yourself at Mullaney’s. I’ll be there around, oh, let’s say 1:30 or so, ladies. I’ll be playing the part of “Handsome Stranger” until around 8 Saturday morning, when I’ll be playing “Bald Guy On The Couch Of My Apartment, Eww He’s Gross, How Can I Get Him Out Of Here” at which point I’ll wake up, scratch myself inappropriately, and use your bathroom before making a long-distance call on your land line, which is to say, yes, I’m the man of your dreams.

The The Big Throwback 10 p.m., Brillobox, Western Bloomfield
brilloYou Damn skippy… Brillo hosts J. Malls & Omar-Abdul for the monthly funk/dance/soul shindig, coming to you live from the Mothership.

Saturday

Zombiefest 2008, Monroeville Mall, Monroeville, All Day (Of The Dead)
BRAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Look, just click the link to find out all about it… There’s way too much going on to list, but be sure you show up Sunday for the World Record Zombie Walk. Or lurch. Whatever. One fun note: the elevator that dude gets torn up in is still in service in JCPenneys. From the inside of the mall, go into the store and sorta keep making your way towards the left rear of the store. If you’re on the lower floor, it’s right by customer service where, oddly, they deal with zombies all the time.

Nightmare On Carson Street Bar Crawl (Or lurch. Whatever), Various Bars, Register at St. James Place, 19th * Mary St, Sahsside
drunks1Beer specials, souvenir cup, 15 bars. It benefits the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, and the cost is only 5 bucks with a donation of two cans of food. This, Ladies And Gentlemen, is you Officially Sanctioned Git Aht Drinking For A Cause of the week.

Discounted tickets are available here, though, but their info wasn’t as good as the link in the title…

Sunday

Recover, At Home, All Day
Polamalu Fans... Serious Polamalu Fans.Watch the Steelers and recover. I dunno, maybe go have a bloody mary and the potato/cheese strudel at Point Brugge for brunch. And then wash it down with a bloody mary.

Git Aht Special Edition: Get Your German On (Or, hey make sure you try the Yinzer Torte!)

Where was I? Oh right, drinking. In Pittsburgh. On the weekends.

This weekend is the always enjoyable, always exciting, always humid under the tents (that sounds sorta filthy, yar? “Hey baby, let’s get humid under the tents.”) Oktoberfest at Penn Brewery, 5 to Midnight Friday and Saturday, and the more family-friendly 4 to 10 p.m. on Sunday. Git Aht recommends this event highly. Why? Not just for the beer, which is plentiful, delicious, relatively cheap, and plentiful (Yes, twice, ’cause it’s important), but also because the Hardest Working Polka Band In Show Business Alpen Glow will be performing. If you’ve never heard them, you’re doing a great disservice to not only yourself, but your family, your city, your country, and possibly your liederhosen. (God, I want some liederhosen, but do you have any idea how expensive those damn things are?) If you love the chicken dance in the same way I do, which is to say when you hear the first melodic strains of it you’ll gladly spill your rigs, pigs, and bird to get to the fire hall dance floor at any wedding you attend in Western Pennsylvania, you simply must hear Alpen Glow with, oh, let’s say, a half-gallon of beer in your hand.

Chicken Dance
Pictured (l to r): Das
Hornenplayer, Das Birdensqueezer, und Das
Buttonboxentek

Here is an example of their important work, and may I say it brings a tear to my eye, and a sort of dull yet lovable ache to my liver:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-TYqKIoeUk[/youtube]

If you can’t make it this weekend, fear not because they’re making enough beer for next weekend too.

More on this situation as it develops, or rather, more on this situation as I wake up Saturday morning somewhere in an alley on The North Side wondering where the hell my pants and/or dignity might be, and asking the Aviary if I can use their phone to call a cab.