Enjoyable Puns — Even Higher Meals. The Common Good Opens Downtown

The individuals behind Ritual House and Palm Palm know all about good meals and dangerous puns.

Cheesy Does It, Herb Your Enthusiasm and Do the Hokey Poke are simply among the menu gadgets you’ll find at their newest endeavor, The Common Good. (For the document, I ordered the Deviled Egg Salad Sandwich. Despite the dearth of a punny identify, it was sinfully scarfable.)

Like Ritual House, the wholesome, fast-casual eatery by Herky and Lisa Pollock and Chef Ed and Amanda Smith is situated in Downtown’s Union Trust Building. From 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday via Saturday it serves breakfast, lunch and snacks together with contemporary salads, grain bowls, soups, sandwiches, acai bowls, smoothies, espresso and bakery gadgets.

Cakes in a Can are a unique tackle the dessert, with layers of elements in small, plastic receptacles. Can you resist the Midnight Snack Attack with darkish chocolate cake, ganache, chocolate mousse and brownie crumble? If you’re extra of a s’extra fan, the Smoke Show cookie is constructed from graham cracker dough, gooey marshmallow and chocolate chunks. It’s absolute hearth!

As a breakfast devotee, I used to be joyful to see a high-tech Zumex juicer on web site for fresh-squeezed refreshment. Juice photographs, together with the Wake Up Call with ginger, lemon and cayenne, can be found for $3.50 every. Orange you bored with ingesting focus?

The Davis Companies, the homeowners of the property, approached Herky, president & CEO of Legacy Realty Partners, a yr in the past to checklist the distinctive house that has twin entry factors: Grant Street and thru the foyer of the constructing.

“We heard the need loud and clear from our patrons, friends, and colleagues and decided it was the right time to launch this concept,” Herky says. “The Common Good is our answer to people who want a local and convenient option Downtown that also does some good for the community. We believe in Pittsburgh’s Future and the future is now!”

Guests can spherical up and in addition donate meals to neighbors in want as part of the group’s
general dedication to uplifting neighbors in Pittsburgh.

Good for them!