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While a surge within the omicron variant of COVID-19 has closed a slew of native eating places — some briefly, some for good — just a few Pittsburgh eateries are providing methods you possibly can convey the eating expertise residence.
These are among the locations that supply meal kits that may flip your kitchen into your favourite restaurant.
DiAnoia’s Eatery
DiAnoia’s Eatery, within the Strip District, is an Italian deli and cafe by day and full-service restaurant by evening. It makes a speciality of do-it-yourself pastas, pastries, breads, sandwiches and extra, and was voted one of many metropolis’s greatest eating places by Pittsburgh Journal in 2018 and 2019.
It affords a handful of various make-at-home meal kits, which will be picked up on the store and embody all of the substances you’d have to prepare dinner a few of DiAnoia’s hottest dishes your self.
At $17, the cacio e pepe package consists of pecorino and parmesan cheese, black pepper and eight ounces of DiAnoia’s contemporary spaghetti. It is available in a gluten-free selection for $20.
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You too can make an “old-world type” pizza like those you’d get at one in all Pizzeria Davide’s three areas, each owned and operated by the DiAnoia’s Eatery household, with the make-at-home pizza kit.
With the steerage of a tutorial from Alex Blinn, kitchen supervisor, the package consists of two 12-ounce dough balls, a pint of sauce, 8 ounces of provolone cheese and parmesan cheese and oregano for garnishing. You may take residence a cheese pizza package for $20, or a pepperoni package for $24.
The restaurant additionally normally has a package and digital class by way of which at-home cooks can make their own mozzarella in partnership with Caputo Brothers Creamery. It’s offered out now, although, however verify the web site usually to seize one when it’s again in inventory.
Every of DiAnoia’s kits is one serving that usually feeds one particular person, in keeping with its web site.
On your DIY pizza wants north of the town, you possibly can take a look at The Oven Pizza Company in Wexford. The family-owned restaurant’s take-and-bake pizza kits have been round since early within the pandemic and are nonetheless on the menu. The Oven affords “Take and Bake Tuesdays” as one in all its specials, the place you possibly can seize two specialty pies with as much as three toppings and a facet of both 4 meatballs, 24 ounces of greens and beans, a dozen wings or one specialty mac and cheese. The particular prices $42.
It additionally has two further take-and-bake meal choices on its menu to help a fundraiser for Blessed Francis Seelos Academy. The primary meal possibility consists of one take-and-bake pizza with two toppings, two take-and-bake breadsticks or “candy sticks,” and one giant salad, all for $37.
The second meal possibility consists of two take-and-bake pizzas with two toppings per pie, two take-and-bake breadsticks or candy sticks and a family-sized salad, for $55.
In line with the menu, anybody who desires to buy these meals for the fundraiser must schedule the order for Jan. 17 between 5 and 6 p.m.
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Child Loves Tacos
For those who’re having a taco craving, look no additional than Baby Loves Tacos. The placement in Bloomfield, which additionally accepts donations to assist “pay it forward” and supply sizzling meals to these in want, affords all kinds of DIY taco kits accessible for pickup. Most kits value $35 and feed three folks.
The sweet potato kit consists of ¾ quarts of candy potatoes, ½ quart of brown rice, ½ quart of black beans, salsas, queso, shredded cheese, bitter cream, cilantro, lime, 18 smooth corn tortillas and a small bag of chips.
The meats kit comes with ¼ quart of rooster, ¼ quart of chorizo, ¼ quart of floor beef, ½ quart of brown rice, ½ a quart of black beans, salsas, queso, shredded cheese, bitter cream, cilantro, lime, 18 smooth corn tortillas and a small bag of chips.
You too can buy kits for beef tacos, rooster tacos, buffalo cauliflower tacos, veggie tacos, mushroom tacos and extra.
It isn’t precisely grill-and-cook-out climate proper now, however you possibly can nonetheless seize a DIY burger kit from Burgh’ers in Lawrenceville. The burger joint and craft brewery opened its doorways for the primary time in 2010, although the brewing part was added on in 2017 when head chef and proprietor Fiore Moletz invited his engineer-turned-brewer buddy Neil Glausier to hitch him as his companion and the pinnacle brewer.
All substances used within the restaurant are bought from native farmers inside a 200-mile radius, and it implements a no-paper-napkins coverage to take care of its give attention to native, moral and sustainable food and drinks.
For $17, its at-home burger package consists of two uncooked beef balls — or balls of the vegetarian-friendly unattainable meat for a further $4 — American cheese and all of the fixings: lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle, Burgh’ers sauce and seasoning mix and Martin’s potato buns. It additionally comes with french fries and a four-pack, touted on the menu as an “grownup joyful meal.”
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Morcilla
For a high-end eating expertise within the consolation of your individual residence, Morcilla affords a choice of kits, too. The Lawrenceville restaurant affords Spanish delicacies by chef Justin Severino, with a give attention to conventional pintxos — or small snacks — craft cocktails, wines and vermouth from Spain and an intensive sherry choice.
For New Yr’s Eve, the restaurant had duck confit kits for 2 for $100, which got here with one leg of crispy duck confit per particular person, bitter inexperienced and citrus salad, artichoke and idiazabal gratin and flan for dessert. It additionally supplied a conserva package for 2 for $20, and a charcutería package for 2 for $30.
Whereas these kits offered out quick and are now not accessible, Morcilla may have new kits in inventory this week, in keeping with co-owner Hilary Prescott Severino.
In an electronic mail, she stated Morcilla will provide a special package every Saturday beginning this weekend, with a pickup window from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.
This week’s upcoming dish will feed two and price $100. It would embody a citrus and fennel salad with bitter greens, blood orange, Cara Cara orange, meyer lemon French dressing, fennel and goat rodeo chevre; a six-piece child again pork ribs entree with harissa honey, labneh and za’atar; salt-roasted candy potatoes with tahini verde, pomegranate molasses and peanut dukkah; and basque cheesecake for dessert, served with Morcilla’s cherry membrillo.
It’s available for preorder by way of the Morcilla web site.
