The longtime tavern will reopen in June in the Franktuary location with more seating and an outdoor seating area in the back with a carport-type shelter.
There is one less option in Pittsburgh for folks seeking an A-list hot dog. First, it was The Original Hot Dog Shop in Oakland closing early in the pandemic. Then D’s Six Pax and Dogz in Regent Square caught fire last August and closed for several months. (It just reopened
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Valley Dairy general manager Alex Blystone prepares a taco order at Valley Dairy Restaurant, Thursday, Jan. 28, in Latrobe, Pa., as part of their new ghost kitchen business, Taco Joeâs.
LATROBE, Pa. (AP) For those who believe, ghosts come in a wide variety of forms: floating orbs of light, haunting voices or, as in the opinion of famed fictional ghostbuster Raymond Stantz, “a full-torso, free-floating apparition.”
As it turns out, so do “ghost kitchens”: food-world phantoms that put emphasis on flavor rather than fright. A ghost kitchen, or virtual restaurant, uses an existing business to create a new menu available almost exclusively through delivery, and frequently through third-party delivery services such as DoorDash, GrubHub, Postmates, Seamless and Uber Eats.