Restaurants in Fernway

The pie artisans at Artisan Pizza Co ladle homemade sauce over freshly made dough, forging gourmet bake-at-home pizzas for customers to cook from the comfort of their own homes. During the pizza-making process, they pay careful attention to every detail to ensure that each pie leaves their kitchen at the pinnacle of quality and tastiness. In addition, they concoct their gluten-free options in a gluten-free prep area with specially designated utensils to avoid cross-contamination, and, when in season, they source many of their ingredients locally from artisanal enterprises to guarantee they're as fresh and environmentally friendly as a vine-ripened Greenpeace boat. They also whip up salads and bake-at-home cookies that, like their pizza counterparts, come with easy-to-follow cooking instructions.

Helmed by a head chef who has accrued experience in India and along the East Coast, Mirchi's culinary team forges a menu of traditional, regional eats made with halal meats and fresh ingredients. Soft, fluffy garlic naan and roti made from scratch soak up the delicate yogurt sauces of lamb and goat curries. Indo-Chinese entrees present hakka-style noodles and gobhi manchurian—cauliflower whirled in a tomato-soy sauce. Mirchi’s BYOB policy and free WiFi lets diners feast alongside self-supplied libations and celebrity cat blogs, while its proximity to an Indian grocer lets guests stock up on ingredients to recreate their meals at home.

As the winner of WPXI's 2011 Pittsburgh’s Best Burger contest, Burgh’ers Restaurant testifies to the fact that chef Fiore Moletz knows how to combine business and family. As a boy, he learned to cook from his mother and grandmother, who would teach him the basics as they prepared weekly feasts for their large Italian family. The skills he learned from those marathon family-cooking sessions colors his work at Burgh’ers Restaurant, where he tops his unique hamburgers with Italian herbs such as fennel, along with locally sourced vegetables and hormone-free black angus beef raised in nearby Saxonburg. Chef Moletz’s restaurant not only reflects his own culture, but the city’s as well, with burgers named for Pittsburgh neighborhoods and a bar stocked with eight local microbrews on tap, whiskey, and seasonal craft cocktails. The handcrafted bar top was even constructed by an area artisan, and meals are served on stainless-steel plates to prevent professional wrestlers from shattering them on each other’s heads when the referee turns his back.

In the old times, markets were the center of social life, and aluminum was more precious than gold. Today's deal is more valuable than Charles Martin Hall's electrolytic process for refining aluminum. Stop by the cozy Italian market il Mercato to use your $5 Groupon toward $10 worth of fresh and premium bites and sips. You can purchase as many as you want, but are limited to one use per visit.

Executive Chef Greg Alauzen has designed every dish on Cioppino's sumptuous dinner menu. Whet your appetite with his selection of oysters on the half-shell ($12) before moving onto his signature dish, Cioppino ($29)—a heaping platter of branzino, mahi mahi, little-neck clams, PEI mussels, Dungeness crab, scallops, whole prawn, onion, and fennel, all served with grilled crostini. The only thing missing is the lobster, which you can get in ravioli ($23) or risotto ($12) form. Those with more landlubbing tastes will prefer an Elysian Fields Farm lamb with sautéed escarole and white beans ($38), New York strip steak ($34), or the veggie-friendly potato gnocchi ($16). Since seafood tends to make for poor desserts, top your feast with vanilla-bean crème brûlée ($6) and gelato ($5), or warm beignets tossed in cinnamon and sugar with a raspberry dipping sauce ($6).