Start from 79 curated places around Pittsburgh, PA, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Dish Osteria and Bar
A tiny South Side dinner-only room serving Sicilian and southern Italian cooking that Pittsburgh food press routinely ranks among the city's best. Grilled calamari and seafood pastas anchor a seasonal menu.
Morcilla
A Lawrenceville Spanish taverna from a James Beard-recognized team, built around house-cured charcuterie, pintxos, and a deep Spanish wine and sherry list. Plates are small and meant to be shared across a long meal.
Trails & outdoors
Three Rivers Heritage Trail
A roughly 33-mile riverfront trail system running both banks of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio through downtown and the surrounding neighborhoods. Mostly flat, paved, and the backbone of urban walking and cycling in Pittsburgh.
Frick Park
Pittsburgh's largest park at over 600 acres, a wooded ravine system stretching from Point Breeze toward the Monongahela. Trails range from an easy paved loop to longer dirt routes through steep, forested terrain.
Things to do
The Andy Warhol Museum
A seven-story North Side museum holding the largest single-artist collection in North America, dedicated to Pittsburgh-born Andy Warhol. Paintings, films, the Silver Clouds room, and a deep archive.
Mattress Factory
A North Side contemporary art museum of room-sized, site-specific installations in a former mattress warehouse, including permanent Yayoi Kusama and James Turrell works. Immersive rather than wall-hung.
Landmarks & sights
Duquesne Incline
An 1877 funicular that still carries riders up the Mount Washington bluff in its original wooden cable cars. The upper station has a free observation deck looking down the three rivers and the downtown skyline.
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
An 1893 Victorian glasshouse in Schenley Park with a 14-room conservatory, 23 gardens, and rotating seasonal flower shows. Known for its orchid and bonsai collections and a sustainable production greenhouse campus.