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The William Penn Tavern will move into Franktuary’s old storefront this summer.

The longtime tavern will reopen in June in the Franktuary location with more seating and an outdoor seating area in the back with a carport-type shelter.

There is one less option in Pittsburgh for folks seeking an A-list hot dog. First, it was The Original Hot Dog Shop in Oakland closing early in the pandemic. Then D’s Six Pax and Dogz in Regent Square caught fire last August and closed for several months. (It just reopened

We're chatting with Tim Tobitsch, of Franktuary, about the art of the hot dog!

Feb 10, 2021 Shane Dunlap/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP Valley Dairy general manager Alex Blystone prepares a taco order at Valley Dairy Restaurant, Thursday, Jan. 28, in Latrobe, Pa., as part of their new ghost kitchen business, Taco Joe’s. LATROBE, Pa. (AP) — For those who believe, ghosts come in a wide variety of forms: floating orbs of light, haunting voices or, as in the opinion of famed fictional ghostbuster Raymond Stantz, “a full-torso, free-floating apparition.” As it tur...

A ghost kitchen, or virtual restaurant, uses an existing business to create a new menu available almost exclusively through delivery, and frequently through third-party delivery services.

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