Holiday Meals To Go For Your At-Home Festivities
Some local favorites are offering takeout to celebrate the holiday season.
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If you don’t want to spend your holidays in the kitchen, some Pittsburgh restaurants are offering takeout to make sure your day is filled with tasty options. Let these restaurants help you with your Feast of the Seven Fishes, Christmas Eve, Christmas and New Year’s Eve meals. These are some of our favorite places offering holiday takeout for your holidays at home.
Apteka
Location: 4606 Penn Ave.
Phone: 412/251-1089
Order Online
Pickup: Dec. 22 or 23, 12-8 p.m. or Dec. 24, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Wigilia Menu: Includes Barszcz z uszkami (serves 3); Zimne Przystawki spread with breads, pickles, pâtés and salads (serves 2 to 3); and pierogi varieties by the dozen, including sauerkraut, potato and plum jam
Desserts: Makowiec poppyseed roll and Piernik dark gingerbread cake (serves 4)
Wine: Grazaniec (750mL)
Bar Marco
Location: 2216 Penn Ave.
Phone: 412/471-1900
Order Online
Pickup: Dec. 18, 19 or 22, 4-7 p.m.
Feast of the Seven Fishes menu for 1 to 2: Includes Baccalà Mantecato, cold calamari salad, fried smelts, chicory salad with poached shrimp and lobster, gnocchi with red clam sauce, stuffed white fish, Millie’s ice cream and biscotti
Black Radish Kitchen
Email: info@blackradishpgh.com
Delivery within 10 miles of Pittsburgh: Dec. 23 and 24, 1-4 p.m.
Christmas Eve dinner for 6: Includes appetizers with meats, cheeses, fried anchovies, shrimp, spinach and artichoke dip, smoky eggplant and house focaccia; dinner of timpano, grilled rappini, roasted cannellini beans and salad; and tiramisu for dessert
Christmas Morning Brunch for 6-8: Includes breakfast bread, torte rustica egg pie (vegetarian option available), salad, and sfogliatelle
Mediterra Cafe
Location: 430 Beaver St., Sewickley, and 292 Beverly Road
Phone: 412/740-7064 and 412/533-9588
Order Deadline: Dec. 18
Pickup: Dec. 23 at 12 p.m. or Dec. 24 at 8 a.m. and 12 p.m.
Menu: Includes rib roast (serves 6 to 8), butternut squash lasagna (serves 4), oyster and crab stew (serves 2 to 4), mac and cheese (serves 4 to 6), turnip gratin (serves 4 to 6), charcuterie board (serves 4 to 14), house rolls, cranberry pecan loaf and bread wreath
Desserts: Cinnamon rolls, gingerbread loaf, Christmas stollen scones, biscotti, chocolate pistachio pound cake, hot chocolate cake, cheesecake, French silk pie, olive oil cake and Christmas stollen
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Morcilla
Location: 3519 Butler St.
Phone: 412/652-9924
Pickup: Dec. 23, 26 or 27, 4-8 p.m.
Cochinillo Feast Menu for 4: Packaged cold to be reheated. Includes chicory and citrus salad, cochinillo, celery root and sunchoke gratin, roasted cabbage and chocolate soufflé cake
Stagioni
Location: 2104 E. Carson St.
Contact: 412/586-4738 and stagionipgh@gmail.com
Order by Phone or Email
Pickup: Dec. 20, 5-7 p.m.
Feast of the Seven Fishes menu: Includes mussels, salmon rillettes, shrimp scampi, tuna confit, squid ink arancini with octopus, cod, crab soup and cookies
Station
Location: 4744 Liberty Ave.
Phone: 412/251-0540
Pickup: Dec. 23, 3-8 p.m.
Christmas Dinner for 2: Packaged par-cooked to be reheated. Includes ham shanks, spiced pear salad, scalloped potatoes, glazed carrots, your flavor of choice of a quarter pound of fudge
A la carte menu: Includes crispy cauliflower (serves 2), confit potatoes, popcorn panna cotta (serves 2) and pumpkin ice cream
Drink menu: Includes white sangria, rum punch, red sangria, Manhattan cocktail, Penicillin cocktail, Obey Your Thirst cocktail, Sorrel Tea cocktail, Old Fashioned cocktail, Fuzzy Sweater cocktail, Negroni cocktail, Staycation cocktail, Hanky Panky cocktail and The Antidote cocktail
The Vandal
Location: 4306 Butler St.
Phone: 412/251-0465
Order Online by Dec. 20 for Christmas and Dec. 27 for New Year’s Eve
Pickup: Dec. 24 or 31, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Snack menu for 2 to 4: Includes caviar, crab hoelzel, shrimp cocktail, crab claws, smoked trout rillettes, antipasti platter, sour cream and onion dip, chicken liver mousse, baked ricotta, baked brie, hazelnut and chocolate tart, brown butter and chocolate chip cookies, holiday cookies, gingerbread cake and baked apple pie
Dinner menu: Three-course duck confit with sourdough, antipasti, and squash soup or pear salad; three-course vegetarian gnocchi with sourdough, antipasti, and squash soup or pear salad; and four-course prime rib with sourdough, antipasti, squash soup or pear salad, and shrimp cocktail
