Pittsburgh For A Day
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Okay, if you're only going to be in town for two nites and staying in South Side then you should absolutely hit up Fat Heads. They have absolutely amazing food and about 100 beers on tap. It's absurd, absurdly awesome.
Their wings are spectacular, and their burghers are even better.
South Side isn't really my thing to be honest (well anymore I guess) but I always end up down there meeting people who like it. They started building up clubs and the like in between all my dive bars and it put me off on the whole part of town.
There is a really cool bar in an alley though behind Carson in between 11th/12th Street (Armstrong Park) that looks like a whole in the wall, because it is, but they have crazy drink specials and usually something funny going - it's called Bar 11.
http://cityguide.aol.com/pittsbu…
Haven't been there in awhile though.
Another dive bar you have to go to is Dee's Cafe right on Carson. Straight out of the 50's but the grimey ass 50's. Actually was featured in Esquire Magazine as one of America's Best Bars:
http://www.popcitymedia.com/inth…
Uhm ... shit I have to roll to lunch.
Let me know what parts of town you want are looking to get into.
I live in North Shore across the 16th Street Bridge from the Strip District (basically all clubs, I'd stay - Lord knows I do).
The Buccos are unfortunately not in town those days as they're in Milwaukee, but bars around the Warhol/ Mattress Factory tend to be a little uppity. Or like chain bars I guess.
Except for the glorious Triple Deuce. But there really is no redeeming quality to that bar unless there is a game because it is just a dive bar in the middle of nowhere, haha.