New restaurants opening in Pittsburgh
In the 30 days to Nov 9, we logged 165 new restaurant and bar leads across Greater Pittsburgh & Western PA: 24 liquor license applications, 102 new food, building, and sign permits, and 32 researched openings.
Coming soon to Pittsburgh
Isaly's
The chipped-chopped-ham and skyscraper-cone legend returns with a vintage-inspired shop. Yes, the folks who invented the Klondike Bar.
Song Noir
Thai and Vietnamese plates with scratch-made cocktails in a speakeasy-style lounge are coming to The Waterfront, an unexpected after-dark twist for Homestead's big-box riverfront.
Storms of Canonsburg
Storms brings its Italian-American cooking and fresh seafood specials from the Curry Road BYOB to Pike Street, landing in a downtown Canonsburg that's busy filling up with new spots.
Twist and Chipped Ham Deli
Downtown Canonsburg is getting a deli with Pittsburgh's own chipped ham right in its name, at 1 E. Pike Street. Paper-thin shaved ham is the house specialty on the sign, and the Washington County Chamber will cut the ribbon this month.
Goulash House
Chicken paprikash and paprika-red goulash from traditional Hungarian recipes are coming to Carnegie's Noblestown Road, where an old pizza shop is trading the slice for the ladle.
Saba Origin Coffee
Saba Origin Coffee is bringing its Yemeni coffee north to Cranberry: 100% high-mountain beans from one of the oldest coffee cultures on earth, poured as qishr — the spiced husk drink — and as single-origin pour-overs, on a stretch of Route 19 better known for…
Dynamic Coffee (Hamilton Ave café)
The old KLVN Coffee Lab roastery café on Hamilton Ave gets a second act as the third café from Dynamic Coffee, the local roaster that runs the coffee bar inside the South Side's Highline and opened La Galería, its producer-focused shop on Penn Ave in East…
Cupcake PGH
Horror-themed cupcakes that won a following at local metal shows now get a home on Allentown's goth-leaning Arlington Ave, as Amanda Baker moves Cupcake PGH into the old Grim Wizard Coffee room.
Tangent by Hazel Grove Brewing
The old Lucca's on South Craig Street is turning into a beer spot: Hazel Grove, the brewery making beer in a converted Hazelwood building across from the bones of a steel mill, is bringing its taps to Oakland under the name Tangent.
The Parlor
Chess boards and pool tables set between plush couches, cocktails poured late on a stretch of Perrysville Ave that has never had a proper lounge — Charla Thomas and Erica Sumpter, the pair behind Ida's Sandwich Shop, are building it next door to the deli case…
The Black Stag
A live wood fire is going into the shuttered Frances dining room on Copeland — Nate Saar, home from Thomas Keller's kitchens, is turning his Silver Ashes fire-cooked private dinners into a full Shadyside restaurant called The Black Stag.
Opal Buffet & Bar
Brazilian churrasco carved tableside, Southeast Asian grilled seafood and all-you-can-eat sushi orbit a 400-seat hall around a central bar, from the Nan Xiang soup-dumpling team.
La Grassa Pizza Company
Eric Grasso's cult square-slice pop-up — built on late-night takeovers of The Vandal's kitchen and a 'everyone gets a corner slice' Detroit-style ethos — finally lands its own corner storefront on upper Butler Street.
Riley's Pour House
The iron gates and two concrete Celtic crosses dug out of the ashes are going back up on East Main — Joe Riley is rebuilding Pittsburgh's most-missed Irish pub from the lot a four-alarm fire left behind, this time with sprinklers, a kitchen three times the…
Anthony Roppa's restaurant at 424 Walnut (name TBA)
Barstools around a piano and pickles made in-house, in the building where his late father ran an ice plant and beer distributor: Bar Noel creator Anthony Roppa is bringing 424 Walnut back to his family and rebuilding it as a Sewickley scratch kitchen that…
Reichhold's Cafe
Those cinnamon roll pancakes are coming back — the Reichhold family farm cafe, dark since April, is gutting and rebuilding inside Zacherl's Tavern, the U-shaped-bar Butler Road institution that poured its last in 2022 after 57 years.
Murray's Market
In-house butcher, bakery, sushi counter and a hot-food deli — seasonal soups, coffee, seats for 16 — filling Squirrel Hill's shuttered corner Rite Aid. All prepared food Vaad-certified; a pharmacy counter brings back prescriptions too.
Richard DeShantz's Bakery Square wood-fire grill (name TBA)
Tacos out, whole branzino in: Meat & Potatoes' Richard DeShantz is turning the old Täkō Tôrtä into a wood-fired grill with serious American whiskey and 117 seats split six ways.
Just opened
The Broken Arrow Cafe & Juice Bar
Fresh juice now pours where Johnstown's Baker's Loaf deli used to stack its sandwiches - Butch and Laura Bogus of Carrolltown bring their Broken Arrow Cafe, named for a hunting trip, to Franklin Street.
Shepard's Diner
Shepard's Diner serves Shepard's Pie, naturally, but in the old Lyndora Hotel's beef-tallow, all-scratch kitchen, the burgers are already outrunning the breakfast plates the menu was built around.
Mary Mac Bakehouse
Cinnamon rolls and a 'Here We Go Stillers' muffin mix on the shelves: a southwest Lawrence County home bakery has moved into its first Main Street storefront in Wampum, open Saturdays only.
Lulá' La Chula
Tlayudas the size of a hubcap, crisp corn spread with asiento and stretchy quesillo, get a permanent home on Etna's Butler Street. Vladimir Martinez Rodriguez, who grew up in Oaxaca City, and Meghan Raffensperger are moving their two-year-old Oaxacan pop-up…
Vigilant Books & Coffee
Coffee among stacks of used books inside an 1891 North Wheeling firehouse: Chuck Wood and Vera Uyehara named their shop after this building, then spent years restoring it to move in.
Greenhouse Café
Green walls, warm light and a Mechanic Coffee espresso among the shelves: Riverstone Books owner Barbara Jeremiah's love of gardening shaped the new café inside her bigger North Hills bookstore.
Badamo Family Grocery & Sandwich Shop
Pistachio mortadella, soppressata and rosemary prosciutto cotto stacked on house-baked focaccia: Anthony Badamo opens a sandwich counter and little Italian grocery right next door to his Potomac Avenue pizzeria.
New restaurant leads in Pittsburgh: filed in the last 30 days
The earliest signals: liquor applications and new food, building, and sign permits, often months before any press. Names of filings from the last two weeks, plus every address and record, are for subscribers.
| Filed | Stage | Where | Business |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8 | Liquor application Restaurant (Liquor) | Greenville | M••• S••••• L•••••• |
| Nov 8 | Liquor application Restaurant (Liquor) | Salisbury | S•••••• M••••• |
| Nov 8 | Liquor application Restaurant (Liquor) | Johnstown | J•••••• V•••••• |
| Nov 8 | Liquor application Restaurant (Liquor) | Sharon | R••••• R•••••• |
| Nov 8 | Liquor application Hotel (Liquor) | Springfield Twp | T•••••• S••••• By |
| Nov 5 | Liquor application Restaurant (Liquor) | Bethel Twp | P•••••• T••••• |
| Nov 5 | Liquor application Eating Place Retail Dispenser (Malt) | New Castle | C••••• Nc |
| Nov 5 | Liquor application Restaurant (Liquor) | Allegheny Twp | B•••••• E•••••• |
| Nov 5 | Liquor application Restaurant (Liquor) | Hempfield Twp | R•• R•••• G•••••• |
| Nov 5 | Liquor application Hotel (Liquor) | Sewickley Twp | O•••••• L••••• |
| Nov 5 | Liquor application Restaurant (Liquor) | North Huntingdon Twp | P•••• M•••••• |
| Nov 4 | Liquor application Restaurant (Liquor) | Masontown | S•••• P•••• |
| Nov 4 | Liquor application Restaurant (Liquor) | Pittsburgh | D••• |
| Nov 3 | Liquor application Restaurant (Liquor) | Youngwood | A••• H•••••• |
This month's leads include Greenville, Salisbury, Johnstown, Sharon, Springfield Twp, Bethel Twp, New Castle, Allegheny Twp, Hempfield Twp, Sewickley Twp, North Huntingdon Twp, Masontown, Youngwood, Sewickley.
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Questions
How do you find new restaurants in Pittsburgh before they open?
We read the public record every day: state liquor license applications (often months before opening), county health and city building permits (weeks before), local press, and a daily web sweep. Duplicates are merged and the substantive leads are researched against the venue's own site and press.
How many new restaurants are opening in Pittsburgh?
In the 30 days to Nov 9, we logged 165 new restaurant and bar leads across Greater Pittsburgh & Western PA: 24 liquor license applications, 102 new food, building, and sign permits, and 32 researched openings. Not every filing becomes a restaurant, which is why the researched openings are listed separately.
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