Fat Head's Saloon — Restaurant in Pittsburgh

My friend who lives in Pittsburgh suggested this place for a bite to eat while in town and it was a couple of blocks from our Airbnb so we decided to stop in and eat. We were all a bit “under the weather” from the game the night before and decided this sounded perfect.

I went with the chicken quesadilla appetizer for starters, which could have been its own meal and was very good. I like spicy food and the fresh jalapeños in this thing were hot. Took me by surprise a bit but delicious all the same. I liked that they were hot and not tasteless canned jalapeños.

I had ten garlic parm traditional fried wings, which were very good. Cooked perfectly and quite fat. They have smoked wings were huge and both of my friends said they were delicious. None of our food stood a chance and even though I wasn’t feeling the best, I crushed my wings and quesadilla.

The beer and cocktail menu is top notch. They have the beer they brew and they have an awesome selection of other local and regional beers, ciders, mead, wines, and even a ginger beer and sangria (the sangria was delicious as I tasted that). The bartenders were great and attentive even when it got busy.

They had some live music which added to the chill ambience and the singer had a very nice voice. This place stayed busy throughout dinner hours and was busy each time we walked past. We didn’t make it back for another meal while in town, but look forward to stopping here when we come...

We have had consistently great experiences with Fat Head's Saloon. Obviously, they have a great beer selection sure to please just about anybody. But the food is also great. My only complaint is that they got rid of their Cheese Curds! Their Cheese Curds were the best around, so we were quite disappointed to find they took them off the menu.

However, the disappointment was only temporary. We opted for the fried pickle chips as our appetizer instead. The dipping sauces were honey mustard and Sriracha 1000 Island. The latter was on the spicier side, but was still good. We also asked for Ranch on the side, which was probably the best of the three dipping sauces, and should probably be the default for the pickle chips.

I went out on a limb and ordered Renee's Red, Hot, and Blue (I usually avoid anything with bleu cheese), and was pleasantly surprised with the burger being in my top 5% of burgers I've ever had. I have it on good authority that the French Onion Soup was very good. On a previous visit, we've had the whole, smoked wings, which were also phenomenal. The only thing they are missing when it comes to their wing menu is the option of Lemon Pepper dry rub. But hey, if they don't have what you want, try something else because you're still...

One of my absolute favorite wing spots on the East Coast.

The wings are meaty, well cooked and well sauced.

Pinheads are pretty sizable sandwiches - with a wide range of options.

But I do miss that are used to have a fathead versus the Volcano wing challenge - which you had to sign a waiver for.

One of the funniest stories that I can really count was that while I was at Carnegie Mellon; we were at the bar and I saw a yinzer offer his buddy to

mow his lawn for a year wash his car for 6 months pay his bar tab

IF he ate the 5 piece volcano challenge.

He finished 3.

I've finished 5 a few times - but it was like eating 10 of the #Paqui #onechipchallenge chips in one sitting.

Their current hottest sauce is pretty decent - but not the competition level, they had before.

The Caribbean killers are pretty awesome - And if you just want something flavorful try the garlic Parms.

Wing that is also pretty great; because you can bring a couple of friends and get a bucket of 50 - Or just take that down yourself if you're feeling adventurous.

It's also kind of neat to see that their once small craft brewery - is now exporting fat head lagers outside...