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  • For Pittsburgh, this is a fabulous food store. We have a friend from D.C. who makes a point of shopping here when she's in town. I ask: Isn't there anyplace in DC (well, Tacoma Park) like this. The answer is "no". I like that the owners have worked hard to create a destination for food; they keep fiddling with their formula. I have been shopping here for at least 30 years and have seen it get better and better over the years. It used to be a rough-ish semi-wholesale place (e.g. minimum cheese cut was 1lb). The area around there had 5-6 produce stores, and a general feel of a terminal district. But there were changes, Nino broke away, produce stored faded away. Over time the area has turned into something more of a destination for a safely exotic Saturday excursion. As others have pointed out. Penn Mac has kept up. On Saturdays I try to shop 8-9am, before the place gets crazy. I go there for cheese (varied, fresh and sometimes cheap) and deli meats (a decent though limited selection; porchetta and smoked pancetta appeared only in the last couple of years; prosciutto salami disappeared), as well as staples (pasta, oil, flour, capers, etc). On Saturdays they stock fresh Breadworks bread (in artisan Italian styles) and fresh pasta (from some place in Ohio: yummy). Some useful hints: by the end of Saturday, before closing, the bread goes down to an agreeable 1/2 price. They're open Sundays and seem to be way less busy. They are open during the week, and pleasantly uncrowded (but complicated stuff like fresh pasta is absent). They have a nice selection of flours, and dry pastas. Their balsamic selection seems to have mostly degenerated to the fancy-looking bottle end of the spectrum. More globally, Penn Mac comes across as a local institution. It's very different from a comparable store in Italy, or even in Canada. Those tend to be tidier and more business-like. Penn Mac tries to be a shopping "experience". But it works. (Personal wish: a real Italian butcher shop in Pittsburgh. Though the new generation of butchers around here are starting to get pretty good.)
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