S & D

S & D is a little deli in the Strip District on 26th and Penn. While it is a deli and offers a wide variety of food products, they have a comfortable seating area and a counter to order food made to order from.

Their pierogies are awesome! It was the perfect Friday lunch going down their and trying some of their potato and cheese pierogies accompanied with some Haluski and a nice Borsch.

Perfectly sized and shaped, and nearly prepared they were served with a minced onion and butter combo. I say nearly prepared perfectly because I really prefer the added texture of a quick sear. The flavor was excellent and they offered a frozen variety to take away with you.

It was at S & D that I realized that I also prefer mixed stuffings as well. One of the frozen 12 packs I took away with me were kraut and mushroom, and they were just as good as potato if not better. There are many roads to Rome one might say, but when it comes down to it... it's all good!

Starlite Lounge in review

Well, last night has come and gone. The pierogies were so good!

I got the polish platter that comes with a helping of Haluski, another Polish delight, and a potato pancake. The pierogies though... in the south when something was that good, they say it was slap your momma good. In explaination, the food is so good it makes you want to go home and slap your mother because what she was puttin on the table growing up was just... meh.

On the second time around I tried to focus on the filling because naturally with a bigger pierogie (I'm sure 3 would be enough to fill any mere mortal up) there is plenty of filling inside to focus on. It was a straight up potato pierogie, so no cheese, kraut, shrooms, etc. It was mushier than the average dish of mashed potatoes, but by no means runny. The filling was quite homogeneous, having few if any chunks, creamy for sure. I think after trying these for a second time I can say that I do prefer pierogies to be a bit smaller (as to highlight the encasing) and accompanied (potato and cheese, potato and mushroom, etc). But I like starlite's because they are cooked to perfection and the onions they come with compliment everything else on the dish so well. Still number one in my book.

The next places I want to try are bloomfield bridge tavern and pierogies plus. Both legends in their own right from what I hear.

Starlite Lounge

I'm very excited because in 10 minutes I will be visiting the place that so far, in my opinion, has the best pierogies in (and arround) Pittsburgh. Big, seared, greasy, potatoy goodness. I think with time I'll get better at rating and describing pierogies for the purposes of this site, but hey I'm working off of enthusiasm and excitement at the moment, not skill and logic.

I just think that if you you've got a hankering, which is basically every other day for me for a pierogie, and you live in Pittsburgh, which has so many great pierogie spots, and you google the topic to try to get an idea of where to go, there just aren't enough sites that discuss the topic. At least to the level of detail or usefulness that this blog will have one day.

For the benefit of all, the collective good, please review the places you've been, or places you've been dreaming to go. Good night, and happy pierogie eating!