New Pittsburgh Restaurant Regarded As One Of Nation's Best

PITTSBURGH, PA — A relatively new Pittsburgh restaurant that already has been nationally recognized has been lauded again.

Bon Appetit has named Fet-Fisk on Liberty Avenue in Bloomfield, which was praised by The New York Times, as one of the 20 best new restaurants in the nation.

Here's what Bon Appetit had to say about theeatery:

"On a Monday night in Pittsburgh’s Little Italy, diners sidle up to Fet-Fisk’s horseshoe bar—from old-timers stopping in for a bottle of Iron City to Gen Z’ers with jellyfish haircuts sipping on house-made marigold schnapps. The contrasts are part of what defines Sarah LaPonte and chef Nik Forsberg’s daring Nordic-ish restaurant, where anyone can find their niche.

"Devour the kicky pickled mackerel nestled in a gully of shaved cabbage and smoky beets beneath moody red lamplight while sitting barside, or let your meal unfold in the rustic dining room bright enough to admire the whole branzino’s craggy breadcrumb crust, a generous goblet of dulse butter at its side. Each element of Forsberg’s free-swinging menu (fresh farmer’s cheese, caraway-salt-cured gravlax, botanicals-infused aquavit) takes days to create via processes he honed during years of sold-out pop-ups. There’s an ease to Fet-Fisk, and the newcomer already feels like an institution, seamlessly reanimating a 50-year-old Italian joint, wood-paneled walls and all."

See the entire list of the best new restaurants here.