Excerpts from:
‘PRIMANTI WAY’
75 YEARS OF THE SANDWICH THAT HAS IT ALL
Eighteenth Street in the Strip District: a blocklong slab of hot, patchy asphalt, slathered over a bumpy bed of cobblestone, sprinkled with oil and leafy litter, sandwiched between two busy slices of Smallman Street and Penn Avenue.
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Today, 18th Street, the home of Primanti Bros. restaurant, will receive the name “Primanti Way,” an honorary designation bestowed by city officials as part of the sandwich shop’s 75th anniversary celebration.
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Said owner Jim Patrinos, who bought Primanti’s in 1974, when he was 24. “I don’t know if MapQuest will change the name
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When Joe Primanti and his brothers started the business in 1933, it wasn’t a sandwich shop so much as a small wooden lunch stand serving produce workers and truck drivers in the Strip District. The menu was simple enough: grilled meat, fried potatoes, sliced tomato, coleslaw and provolone cheese between two thick pieces of Italian bread.
READ IT ALL HERE.
And my post is HERE, with pictures and more links.
I get the distinct impression that the Pittsburgh Gazette is a damn fine paper, in particular on their coverage of newsworthy food stories. As my local food section has become, in their words, “a dying business” it fascinates me to see ink being spread on local food stories in much smaller markets.
The Lunch Encounter 