OMG….SOOOOO many places to eat…
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Right near/on campus there are the classic hangouts: Primanti Bros for sandwiches piled with fries, Stack’d burgers, and The Porch at Shenley park, plus a newer place, Piada, for quick paninis. We hit one or more of these almost every trip to Pitt.
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Not food but highly recommended: tour the nationality classrooms within Cathy - very cool but difficult to describe. Also, go to the Carnegie museum in between Pitt and CMU.
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Uber or walk to the Shadyside neighborhood on Walnut Street to shop and eat: Shadygrove for pub food, Cafe Moulin for brunch, Mercurios for Italian and gelato
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Turn the corner in Shadyside from Walnut onto Highland ave to our absolute favorite restaurant, Noodlehead, which is also very cheap and VERY popular with students.
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Drive across the Smithfield st bridge from Oakland to Station square for various chainish restaurants then take the Monongahela Incline rail up for views of the city (a must)
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if you have time, you can drive to the strip district a little north of downtown (not near campus). Very busy and fun and loaded with resaturants. A little farther north is the Church Brew Works - fun church turned into a brewery