Did Someone Say Pizza?

After two days of reading through Yelp and other review aggregators, checking websites and Facebook pages, and trying to determine who is actually still open post pandemic, I've come up with a list of 46 independent pizza places in Westmoreland County. I was aiming for a nice, round 50, but this gives me some leeway to add any new places as they spring up. There are certainly others, but since we eat there regularly I don't plan to include them in the blog (Ianni's, Pizza Sienna, and Warrior Pizza are but a few). They're grouped here by location. The plan is to visit all the dine-in places during colder weather, and save the carryout-only restaurants for warmer weather when we can take a pizza to a nearby park so that it's still hot and fresh when we eat it. Greensburg Little E’s Pizzeria Baldy’s Original Pizza (also Latrobe) Giannilli’s (Carbon) Abie and Bimbo’s Pizza Pizza Marsala (also North Huntington) Jioio’s (also Latrobe) Gino’s Pizza (Lync

I love food blogs. Not so much blogs about making food, but about  eating food. A few years ago I blogged about the regional fish fry scene (LOVE me a good fish fry).  I think I had 23 readers - yeah, big stuff. 🤣 After that, I started my quest to find Western Pennsylvania's best Reuben. I made lots of notes on the sandwiches I tried, but all that effort somehow never became an actual blog. (But if you really want to know, for the best one it's a toss-up between Schoolhouse Tavern and Rodney's.) Early this year I spent a month in Louisville, Kentucky, visiting family while working remotely. Chip and I have often commented that pizza in Louisville - while very good - is expensive compared to our home in the Pittsburgh suburbs.  One of the reasons is likely the sheer number of pizza places here creates competition that you don't have in Louisville. Western PA is home to a very large number of Italian immigrants, and both family Italian restaurants and pizza places proli