Onion Maiden is the best - this is definitely not because of lack of business. Hope they can figure out a path forward that will allow me to continue eating their food, but I can definitely empathize with the lack of work/life balance being an independent owner/operator in the business can give you

Bottlerocket too on the weekends

Seasons is reopening in Mount Oliver in the failed Kevin Sousa spot. Will be opening in a week or so

The printers have been on strike longer than the journalists- the journalists were doing a byline strike but then became a full blown strike when their brother and sister unions forced a vote on a company wide strike - at least that’s my understanding

Absolutely - we’ll never know what exactly got this writers eye- but we’ve had a significant amount of press and built up buzz and clearly something clicked and connected. I can think of 3 or 4 different stories over the last 3-4 months that may have gotten their attention.

Thanks for coming!

They have a leasing agent maintain their Facebook page - sorry for being defensive but it’s a little insulting when our team of 3 people busts our ass to be noticed, especially in the venue space competing against massive companies and long-standing places, then when we do someone turns around and accuses some random third party of paying our way in

Sure - but I also know they haven’t had a marketing or PR person working for them for at least the last 6 months, so I’d call it unlikely

I can assure you RE360 has no interest in figuring out how to bribe international travel magazines to mention a bar that happens to be their tenant. No one even knew we were featured in this until one of our employees moms heard us mentioned on a KDKA story about the article.

My best guess is a few months ago VisitPittsburgh had us opening featured in a press release - that’s probably around the time this list was coming together and it got noticed from there.

and them being our landlord has to do with what exactly .... ???? We pay them rent every month and therefore.... ??? They're literally hundreds of peoples landlord

What does re360 have to do with anything happening in this post or our business???

I’m 24 years old, a college dropout, with parents who are high school teachers. I put my entire life savings and then some - plus small loans my family could afford to give me - on the line to open this business, but every time I post about it here a handful of people seem to think we’re some secretly well funded megacorp. I wish!!

God forbid a small business takes advantage of an objectively cool thing that’s also relevant to this sub??

I was just kidding around - but I do think Pittsburgh punches well above it’s weight as a city of it’s size/history with the amenities that it offers - it’s certainly nicer to visit than major cities I’ve live in previously (the idea of someone vacationing in Phoenix is baffling to me for instance - although hundreds of thousands do) as someone else said in this thread said it wouldn’t be a very interesting article if it was just New York, Paris, London and Tokyo.

It’s my understand that stuff like this usually comes thanks to very heavy lobbying from VisitPittsburgh and other tourism/business groups. I have no idea why we got a shoutout - but I do think in general people in this thread are kind of dismissing the region more than it deserves. There’s a lot of cool shit here!!! I can only say very anecdotally from talking with performers/friends visiting but everyone who has come has seemed to say “I had no idea Pittsburgh was this cool!” and that seems to be the point the article is making.

Haha it is funny how that remains the cities enduring identity - but I guess it makes sense when perhaps our most public facing export (the Steelers) is named … the Steelers

Hey - I own that bar! And I think it’s pretty neat!

Chris was the perfect kickstart to everything

Thanks!!!! It’s really taken off the last 2 months!

Just wanted to repost this here - thought it was worth sharing!!

I own Bottlerocket Social Hall which is mentioned in the article and seeing our business and our city alongside the hot spots in Madrid and Seoul and Copenhagen was really cool!