The stories behind the places Pittsburgh grew up on

Giuseppe "Joe" Aiello sailed from Palermo, Sicily, in 1967 with $13 in his pocket. He spent years kneading dough and simmering sauce for someone…

Morris "Moe" Walsh was orphaned at 10 and raised on a farm in Bethel Park. He learned to bake at Dudt's Bakery in Mt.

Beto's has been making pizza since 1953, and the Post-Gazette calls it the oldest pizza business in the city that has never stopped.

Jim "Big Jim" Bochicchio opened his place in 1977, tucked under the Parkway in the Run, the little pocket of Greenfield along Four Mile Run, to feed…

The first Brighton Hot Dog Shoppe opened in New Brighton, Beaver County, late in 1959. Brothers Victor and Francis Trevelline modeled it on the shop…

Chinatown Inn is the last piece of Pittsburgh's old Chinatown. Tong Yee came from Taishan, in Guangdong, and the family business began as Quong Ye…

The Church Brew Works pours beer inside St. John the Baptist, a Roman Catholic church whose cornerstone was laid on Liberty Avenue in Lawrenceville…

Andy Hardie and Dave Tuttle started scooping homemade ice cream on Atwood Street in Oakland, and in 1990 Dave sold his share to Andy.

DeLuca's has been cooking breakfast in the Strip District since 1950, and it still calls itself the original.

Vicki and Robert Lawhorne opened the Dor-Stop on Potomac Avenue in Dormont in 1986, and it has been a South Hills breakfast stop ever since.

Eat'n Park opened on June 5, 1949, as a little yellow building with 13 seats on Saw Mill Run Boulevard, Route 51, and 10 carhops running trays out…

In 1993 Larry Lagattuta quit his corporate job to bake biscotti. He said later that the office felt like going to jail.

Fiori Moscatiello was born in Naples and came to the United States in 1972. In 1979 he opened Fiori's at 103 Capital Avenue in Brookline, just off…

Gab & Eat has been feeding the neighborhood on Washington Avenue for more than 40 years, and the walls tell the story.

Anthony Falcon grew up in Brooklyn loving parrillas, the Argentine style grills he found around New York.

The Grand Concourse lives in the old Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad station, built in 1901 with a stained glass ceiling, brass, mahogany and marble.

Ron Molinaro is a Pittsburgh native who had a bite that changed his life in 1990, at Patsy's under the Brooklyn Bridge.

Jimmy and Nino Sunseri come from one of the Strip District's oldest food families. Their grandfather started in the business in 1902, and Jimmy went…

James Blandi Sr. opened LeMont in 1960 on Grandview Avenue, on the spot where the Grandview Theatre used to stand, with the whole city spread out…

Lincoln Bakery has been on Lincoln Avenue in Bellevue since 1945, when Andrew and Stephanie Slezak bought the bakery that was there and gave it a…

The Wholey family has been in the food business since 1912, when the Robert Wholey Company got its start in McKees Rocks, and Wholey's grew into one…

In 1926 James Mancini, an Italian immigrant who had started apprenticing with a baker at 14, was baking 100 loaves a night and delivering them…

Max's Allegheny Tavern fills two old Deutschtown hotels. George Rahn bought the Farmers & Drovers Hotel in 1900 and built the Hotel Rahn right next…

Mike & Tony's got its start on the South Side in the early 1970s, bragging about the freshest lamb in town.

Giovanni Mineo was a baker in Sicily before he came to Pittsburgh in 1954. Riding a streetcar down Murray Avenue, he found a spot to rent at 2130…

Raphael Moio came to America from Calabria in 1913 and cooked in hotels before he opened his own pastry shop in 1935 on Larimer Avenue in East…

Marc and Susan Serrao started Oakmont Bakery in 1988 with 1,200 square feet, two kids and a big dream.

The Original Oyster House opened in 1870, when oysters went for a penny and a beer cost a dime, and it's the oldest bar and restaurant in Pittsburgh.

Pamela's began with golf. Pam Cohen and Gail Klingensmith met in an amateur golf league in 1978, and on January 1, 1980 they took over a Squirrel…

Henry Dewey is a Florida boy who worked his way up from dishwasher to executive chef, then cut fish at Benkovitz Seafood until it closed.

Beer has been brewed on this North Side hillside since the 1840s. The Eberhardt and Ober families made lager here, their brewery joined Pittsburgh…

Pennsylvania Macaroni Company goes back to 1902, when three brothers from Trabia, Sicily, Augustino, Salvatore and Michael Sunseri, started making…

In the early 1980s Jim "Big Tree" Trebac toured the East Coast, eating his way through sub shops in Philadelphia and up and down the Jersey Shore.

Helen Mannarino grew up in Poland helping out in her family's restaurant, and in 1974 she came to McKees Rocks.

Potomac Bakery has been on Potomac Avenue in Dormont since 1927, when Lillian Tate's parents, German immigrants, started it.

Prantl's is a bakery with German roots that has been on Walnut Street in Shadyside for more than 50 years.

John "J.P." Prestogeorge founded the business in 1958 as the Olde Fashioned Coffee Shoppe at Miracle Mile in Monroeville, and in 1965 he and his…

Primanti Bros. started with a sandwich cart. During the Great Depression, Joe Primanti sold sandwiches to the truckers and workers who kept the…

Ritter's opened in Bloomfield in 1951, and the Velisaris family took it over in 1966. In 1975 the diner moved across the street into a three piece…

S&D Polish Deli opened in the Strip District in late 2007, started by the Pyszkowski family, who had just come to Pittsburgh from Poland.

Tessaro's sits in an 1892 building at 4601 Liberty Avenue that started out as the Keely Brothers wallpaper store, and the tin ceiling from those…

Vincent Chianese was a tailor by training. He learned to make pizza from his uncle in San Francisco, then came home and opened Vincent's Pizza Park…

Wigle Whiskey is a family affair. Meredith Meyer Grelli, her husband Alex, her parents Mark and Mary Ellen Meyer and her brother Eric opened it in…