Insomnia Cookies delivers late
Apparently it’s now possible to get warm chocolate chip cookies delivered to your door at 1 a.m. with the first of two Insomnia Cookies locations now open in Oakland and the second spot at 1734 E. Carson St., SouthSide, debuting any day now.
The Pittsburgh Insomnia Cookies will sell chocolate chunk, snickerdoodle, chocolate peanut butter cup and s’mores deluxe. It also delivers cookie cakes and brownies — and, of course, milk.
Insomnia cookies was founded in a dorm room in 2003 and has specialized in delivering warm
cookies from 10 a.m. to 3 a.m.
Fig & Ash to open on North Side in fall
When chef Cory Hughes won the Sandwich Sampler to kick off the recently wrapped North Side Sandwich Week, it was a harbinger of delicious things to come from his restaurant-inprogress, Fig & Ash at 514 E. Ohio St.
His sandwich was a display of Jamison lamb sausage from the Latrobe farm, roasted banana pepper, tomato gastrique and a basil yogurt that stole the show among strong contenders. They included runner-up North Side newcomer, Brugge on North @ Alphabet City (40 W. North Ave.) — a sibling to Point Brugge Cafe in Point Breeze — with its turkey, spinach, pesto, gouda and pepper jelly on grilled sourdough, and the Italian beef sandwich from Flavors Street Food, slated to open at 3231 Brighton Road in June.
Sandwiches are available at participating locations — with the exception of that lamb sausage number, since Mr. Hughes’ Fig & Ash is not open yet. It is on track to open in the fall as part of the East Ohio Street redevelopment.
Taiwanese chefs on U.S. tour stop in Pittsburgh
On Thursday, the Organization of Chinese Americans will host its Taste of Taiwan fundraiser in Oakland, featuring visiting master chefs Huang Ching Long and Li Chi Chao, who will cook Taiwanese snacks and dishes like soup dumplings, rice cake, shrimp rolls, salt-crisp chicken and braised tofu.
It’s $35 per person at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 419 Dithridge St. Register at ocapghpa.ticketleap.com/a-taste-of-taiwan. Proceeds go to OCA Pittsburgh and OCA free medical and dental clinic.