Looking for a local holiday gift idea? Northside bakeries offer a number of seasonal cookie varieties. By John Canning “Oh my, it’s fruitcake weather!,” Truman Capote writes in “A Christmas Memory,” the wonderfully warm and somewhat sad tale of his boyhood years in the rural South. He’s describing h...

Best of Northside Small Businesses Annual Readers' Choice Awards Winners of 2018 Best Specialty Retail Store #1- Wagsburgh #2- Tom Friday’s Meat Market #3- Laverty Jewelry and Gifts Best Beauty Service or Product Store #1- Wagsburgh for PETS & #1- Annex for PEOPLE #2- The Farmer’s Daughter Flowers #...

3rd Annual Northside Small Business Saturday was November 24, 2018 Northside retail merchants set-up shop displays and specials for the National holiday, despite the cold rain that soaked through most of the day. New and regular shoppers took time to visit each store in the business district they st...

Last month, The Northside Chronicle polled readers to nominate their favorite neighborhood businesses. Now it's time to vote. As the third annual Northside Small Business Saturday approaches, online subscribers of The Northside Chronicle were asked to nominate their favorite Northside Small Business...

Husband and wife pair utilize restaurant's resources to fuel community revival and nonprofit vocational program.   By: Neil Strebig   Doug Phillips sits at the middle high top table, smiling as he dives in for another bite of his grilled turkey Rueben. In between bites he talks about his family with...

We get a behind the scenes look at Allegheny City Brewing in Historic Deutschtown and hear from co-owner Amy Yurkovich on why the team at ACB settled on the Northside. Allegheny City Brewing is located at 507 Foreland St and is open Wednesday thru Thursday 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., Friday 4 p.m. to midnigh...

When Aero Tech Designs started out in 2005, they did so with humble intentions – make quality products at affordable prices. Now over a decade later Aero Tech Designs has outgrown their Coraopolis roots and found a home in Chateau. “Our main goal is to provide comfort on the bicycle for all of our c...

From a basement kitchen to a full catering hall, co-owners Lisa Ferguson and Mike Fedalen share their story. By: Neil Strebig It sounds like something out of a fairy tale, a newlywed couple, working out of the basement of a local church, questing after their harmonious goals and building a business ...

Originally inspired by the pastry prowess of his wife, co-owner Tony DeCarlo shares the transition of Chateau Café and Cakery from traditional coffee shop to lunch destination. By: Neil Strebig   Chateau Café and Cakery may be called that, but if you ask co-owner Tony DeCarlo the location has evolve...

Café on the Corner’s sister program, Kitchen of Grace will be holding its first annual “Truck or Treat” Tuesday, October 31 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. “I think it is important and we’re expecting this to be a continuous thing,” said Kitchen of Grace creator, Latresa Blackwell. “Living in the community, m...