06/15/2026
🐾 An Official Statement from Management.
It's Lily. I've reviewed our Best of the Best nominations and I have one question for this community:
Who nominated a gastropub for Best Bakery?
We have 72 taps. We have a scratch kitchen. We have never produced a croissant. I am not mad. I am deeply confused, and frankly a little impressed.
Whoever you are — that's exactly the energy I need from you for the next 10 days. Here's where we're actually up, and why we earned it:
🐟 Fish Sandwich — COD doesn't stand for Call of Duty around here. Lent turns this kitchen into a warzone — vote like you've waited in that line.
🍕 Pizza — Fresh tomato, buffalo mozzarella, scratch dough, and combinations that make no sense until you taste them. Then the flavors hit like a depth charge. POW.
🍔 Burger — Fresh-ground in-house from our own steak trimmings. Some places serve meat that arrives in a tube. We are not some places.
🥗 Salads — Everybody else opens a bag. We grow you a garden — olives, beets, chickpeas, peppers, tomato, cucumber, onion — then bury it in fresh-cut fries and cheese. You can barely find the lettuce. Respect.
🔥 Wings — Wing night is the closest thing this place has to a religion. Our "church" is packed to the seams every single time. Real wings, real sauces, no apologies.
🏈 Sports Bar — Every game, every screen, whether it's the Pirates, the Pens, or the Steelers. This is the room where you lose your voice on purpose.
🍽️ Restaurant — The big one. Eight years ago this building was rubble. Now it's 72 taps, a scratch kitchen, a crew that knows your order before you sit down, and a guy on the sauté station who still hasn't taken a Friday night off. Best Restaurant isn't a category to us — it's the whole reason we built the place. If we earned one vote from you, earn us this one.
Vote where you think we earned it. Every day through June 24 at 10PM. I'm watching.
👉 leadertimes.com/bestofthebest
(Bakery too. I've decided to embrace it.)
— Lily, Owner (Ryan signs things) 🐾
