Penn Brewery
Penn Brewery
Glazed with your choice of sauces made with penn beer: classic buffalo, black BBQ, Korean BBQ, or garlic-asiago. Served with carrots and celery with ranch or bleu cheese dressing. Contains raw or undercooked ingredients.
Our fresh cut fries prepared in traditional Canadian style with white cheddar curds and wild mushroom demi glace, add five hour braised brisket $6.00, add bacon $2.00.
Emerald Valley Artisans white cheddar curds, tempura battered and served with dijonnaise drizzle.
Bbq jackfruit sliders with slaw and house-made pickles.
Hand rolled spring rolls stuffed with green beans, carrots, mushrooms, onions, vermicelli pasta, and tofu. Served with sweet and spicy Thai chili sauce.
A generous portion of double battered, thick cut onion rings. Served with spicy cherry pepper mayo.
Our chef's selection of cured meats, smoked sausages, local gourmet cheeses, and house pickled vegetables. BBQ Jackfruit Sliders
Our chef's selection of cured meats, smoked sausages, local gourmet cheeses, and house pickled vegetables.
Serves 2-3. Chef's selection of seasonal, local, house pickled and fresh vegetables with a light drizzle of Weizen vinaigrette
Greens topped with cherry tomato, red onion, cucumber, hard boiled egg, shredded cheese, hand cut fries and grilled chicken, served with ranch dressing. Substitute grilled steak to temperature - $5.00. Contains raw or undercooked ingredients.
Romaine, cucumber, red onion, cherry tomato, kalamata olives, red and green bell pepper, garbanzo beans and bulgarian feta cheese. Tossed with Greek feta dressing and warm pita. Add grilled chicken or gyro meat $4.00.
Spring mix, red onion, cherry tomato, and croutons with our weizen vinaigrette.
Spring mix, red onion, cherry tomato, and croutons with our weizen vinaigrette.
Creamy fresh mozzarella over mixed greens. Choose with fresh fruit, balsamic and local honey or with heirloom tomatoes, cucumber, red onion and weizen vinaigrette.
Rich, hearty stew with sirloin steak and potatoes.
Just enough spice in our modern take on the classic. Fully loaded with sour cream, cheddar and onions add $1.00.
Marinated mushroom, grilled peppers and onions, vegetarian steak sauce, and bier cheese served on a breadworks hoagie roll. Served with kosher dill pickle and choice of side.
Marinated mushroom, grilled peppers and onions, vegetarian steak sauce, and bier cheese served on a breadworks hoagie roll. Served with kosher dill pickle and choice of side.
Applewood smoked cheddar and horseradish sauce on a breadworks hoagie roll with au jus for dipping. Served with kosher dill pickle and choice of side.
In honor of our recent gold metal from the world beer cup for our penn gold. Parma lonza ham, fried green tomatoes, house pickled sweet onion, smoked cheddar cheese, arugula, and white remoulade on a grilled breadworks hoagie roll. come with dill kosher pickle and choice of side.
Hand breaded pork cutlet, slaw and heidelberg dijonnaise on a breadworks hoagie roll. Come with dill kosher pickle and choice of side.
House shaved rib eye with penn beer cheese, grilled peppers and onions served on a breadworks hoagie bun. Contains raw or undercooked ingredients. Come with dill kosher pickle and choice of side.
One half pound of pretzel-breaded cod fried golden brown trying to fit on a breadworks hoagie bun. Served with French fries and house-made tartar sauce. Contains raw or undercooked ingredients. Come with dill kosher pickle and choice of side.
One half pound of coarse ground beef grilled to order. Choice of cheese. Pepper-jack, gouda, cheddar, Swiss, or muenster. Contains raw or undercooked ingredients. Add bacon - $2.00. Come with dill kosher pickle and choice of side.
A first cousin to the Greek gyro, the most popular sandwich in germany. Ours is served on a warm pita with romaine lettuce, sliced tomato, red onion, feta and house-made creamy dill garlic sauce. Contains raw or undercooked ingredients. Come with dill kosher pickle and choice of side.
Black forest ham, capicola, salami, mozzarella, and provolone oven-baked on a breadworks hoagie roll with artichoke pesto and house-made Greek vinaigrette, leaf lettuce, sliced tomato and onion. Come with dill kosher pickle and choice of side.
One half pound of coarse ground beef grilled to order and layered with muenster cheese, potato pierogi, sliced kielbasa, fried egg, slaw, lettuce, tomato, and onion all on a breadworks brioche bun. Contains raw or undercooked ingredients. Come with dill kosher pickle and choice of side.
One half pound thinly-sliced kielbasa with muenster cheese, braised red cabbage, and house-made hot bacon dressing on a breadworks pumpernickel bread. Come with dill kosher pickle and choice of side.
One half pound extra-lean corned beef, sliced Swiss cheese, and house-made sauerkraut with our Russian dressing on a breadworks marble rye. Come with dill kosher pickle and choice of side.
Thinly sliced turkey, Swiss cheese, house-made slaw, and Russian dressing on breadworks marble rye. Come with dill kosher pickle and choice of side.
Mashed potato and cheese tucked in tender dough, sauteed and topped with caramelized onions and sour cream.
Mashed potato and cheese tucked in tender dough, sauteed and topped with caramelized onions and sour cream.
House-made with roasted chicken, bleu cheese crumbles, and hot sauce, sauteed and topped with grilled onions and bleu cheese dressing.
Our take on the classic German dish, served with applesauce and sour cream. Made in-house from scratch.
Our take on the classic German dish, served with applesauce and sour cream. Made in-house from scratch.
This crisp, smooth beer pairs perfectly with our creamy, tangy cheddar. Featuring emerald valley artisans cheese.
The complexity of our sweet and nutty baby Swiss matches the malty goodness of the penn dark. Featuring emerald valley artisans cheese.
The sweet banana and clove flavors of penn weizen complement our fruit-infused fresh cheese while the kick of citrus from both cheese and beer help to balance your palate. Featuring emerald valley artisans cheese.
Heady earthy aromas of our smoked cheddar stand up to the pronounced noble hop aroma of our kaiser pils. Featuring emerald valley artisans cheese.
The creaminess of this cheese contrasts with the pronounced hop flavor while the pepper flavor balances the floral aromas of the IPA. Featuring emerald valley artisans cheese.
Slow roasted pork loin served with vegetable of the day and roasted garlic red skin mashed potatoes. Contains raw or undercooked ingredients.
Seven-day marinated bottom round, slow roasted and served with yukon gold potatoes and root vegetables. Contains raw or undercooked ingredients.
Hand breaded pork cutlets with mushroom gravy served with vegetable of the day and roasted garlic red skin mashed potatoes. Contains raw or undercooked ingredients.
Eight hour roasted roulade of pork shoulder and belly with fresh fennel and orange pesto. Served with sauerkraut, hot potato salad, and spicy mustard.
Classic wide egg noodles with grilled to order beef tenderloin and wild mushroom gravy. Contains raw or undercooked ingredients.
Cavatappi noodles in our rich, creamy, beer cheese and garlicky, toasted bread crumbs. Add bacon or vegetable of the day $2.00, grilled chicken breast or sausage $4.00, schnitzel or grilled steak to temperature $7.00.
Seared chicken breast with spaetzle and wild mushroom cream sauce. Or substitute grilled portobella mushroom for a vegetarian option. Contains raw or undercooked ingredients.
USDA Choice, 12 oz center cut, grilled to order and finished with Montreal butter served with vegetable of the day and roasted garlic red skin mashed potatoes. Contains raw or undercooked ingredients.
Garlic parmesan butter, memphis style sauce, cheddar-jack cheese, and red onion. Contains raw or undercooked ingredients.
Cauliflower with roasted buffalo cauliflower, crumbled blue cheese and calabrian chili oil.
Cauliflower with roasted buffalo cauliflower, crumbled blue cheese and calabrian chili oil.
House made red sauce, ricci's hot sausage, ham, bacon, salami and capicola with 3 cheese blend. Contains raw or undercooked ingredients.
Rosemary and garlic with white kidney beans and cured parma lonza ham. Finished with buffalo, garlic ranch sauce.
On a grilled pretzel roll. Served with house made sauerkraut, spicy mustard, kosher dill pickle and choice of side.
On a grilled pretzel roll. Served with house made sauerkraut, spicy mustard, kosher dill pickle and choice of side.
On a grilled pretzel roll. Served with house made sauerkraut, spicy mustard, kosher dill pickle and choice of side.
On a grilled pretzel roll. Served with house made sauerkraut, spicy mustard, kosher dill pickle and choice of side.
On a grilled pretzel roll. Served with house made sauerkraut, spicy mustard, kosher dill pickle and choice of side.
Kielbasa, penn pilsner bratwurst and rustic chicken sausage served with sauerkraut and hot german potato salad.
All of sausage platter above, plus rotating wild game sausage.
Warm, fragrant apples and cinnamon with raisins wrapped in flaky homemade pastry. Add scoop of vanilla or cinnamon ice cream $2.00.
Baked to order chocolate chunk cookie or salted pretzel caramel cookie, topped with vanilla ice cream.
By signature desserts - Castle Shannon, PA.
Poutine
Potato pancakes
brewery for kids
wedding rehearsal dinner location, banquet room
Entrance to restaurant
Views of the city outside the brewery
Oktoberfest milk jug
Original lager caves
a glass of beer on a table
Bar
a blue car parked in front of a brick building
outside
historic lagering caves, viewable from the tunnels in our biergarten
ramen and noodles, interior
cobblestone biergarten by night, magical with propane heaters
interior
From my seat at the bar. A great view of the seasonal menu of beers
dine outside in our outdoor seating.
outside
outside
Apple strudel bites
Mj C.
Dec 15, 2024
Ambiance was very cool, old style brewery. Beer was excellent, tried several different types, all were very good. Wings were crisp and very large, tasty sauce. Perogies were excellent. Had fish sandwich was very good. Good amount of Televisions for Sunday football. Servers and bartender were great. Will be back!! Great place.
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Steven K.
Nov 4, 2024
If you want the slowest service in all of Pittsburgh, then this might just be the place to go. With a party of only 4 people, we waited well over an hour for food. Waitress checked on us maybe once the entire time. Random week night when the restaurant was practically empty so not sure what the issue was.Despite the fact that food took ages to arrive, it did come out pretty tasty. Went with the Pretzel Breaded Cod Sandwich. Tasted good. Not the best fish sandwich ever but had good flavor and was crispy. Onion slices a bit too thick. (Rating: 7/10)Got the German potato salad as my side instead of fries. This was very good. Would recommend. (Rating: 8/10)The beer is always good. Don't matter what you get. Got a pumpkin shandy and it was delish.Overall, not bad. Disappointed in the wait. Decent food though.
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Morgan G.
Apr 6, 2024
I enjoyed the atmosphere and food at Penn Brewery. We got the pierogis, potato skins, and I got the fish sandwich as my entree. I liked the potato skins and fish sandwich. The pierogis were really soft, which is authentic but I prefer a little crisp. The sandwich itself was absolutely huge and I thought it was pretty good. I only tried one beer, but plan to go back to try some more. I will say the service was a little slow, but appeared only one waitress working that I saw in our area. I would go back and plan to try more menu items, as there appeared to be a lot of options.
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Tiffany Y.
Dec 2, 2023
Penn Brewery traces its origins back to 1848 when German families operated breweries here. The current business began to brew craft beer in 1986, but some of the original buildings remain and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.I never drink beer, so I unfortunately cannot review Penn Brewery's beers. Sorry! Instead, I visited Penn Brewery because they also have a restaurant. My husband and I arrived at noon on a Saturday, and we parked our vehicle in a free on-site garage. We felt unsure of where to walk, but we found our way to the front entrance of the restaurant by walking down steps, past stone caves, and up other steps.Penn Brewery's website says that reservations for the restaurant are strongly suggested, but many tables were available during our lunch, so I assume that reservations would be needed instead for a Friday night or Saturday night. Our waitress spoke to us very courteously. She accidentally gave me an outdated menu, so I ordered food that is no longer offered and then had to choose a different food from a new menu. I saw the new menu briefly, but I remember reading about appetizers such as pierogies, poutine, truffle fries, salads, Hungarian goulash, and wings and entrees such as sausage, salmon, and cajun pasta. Prices were moderate.The waitress and another employee brought out our foods after short waits. My husband and I rate the pretzels with cheese and mustard as 5 stars, the potato pancakes with applesauce and sour cream as 3.5 stars, the wienerschnitzel (fried pork sandwich) as 3 stars, the mashed potatoes with gravy as 5 stars, the cod sandwich as 3 stars, the German potato salad as 5 stars, and the apple strudel as 5 stars. Please visit Penn Brewery's website for information about their public events and private parties.
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Rick S.
Oct 25, 2024
I enjoyed my visit to Penn Brewing sampling locally made Pierogi and Potato Pancakes made in-house along with great beers. The Pittsburgh Steak Egg rolls were significantly different from a Philly Cheese Steak version but enjoying them as well. I ate a lot!
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Taryn C.
Sep 10, 2023
So this place was good if you're into carbs, more carbs, a side of carbs and wash it down with some beer (carbs).I really wanted authentic pierogis and spaetzel (never had it before). We wanted beer (Pittsburgh is a craft beer town for sure). Penn Brewery made the cut!First, I was confused by the parking situation here. There are spots across the street, but it was a Sunday and it looks like you can't park there during the week or during work hours. When I asked about it, the staff seemed nonplussed. I'm from NYC, we walk everywhere so parking is an after thought usually. But HELLO this is Pennsylvania. Everyone drives here. Give us a clear picture of the parking situation.The staff wasn't all that friendly. We got our food and beverage just fine. Admittedly we were there about two hours before close on a Sunday. But like, I dunno. Fake it? Not my fault you don't like your job. The food was a'ight. The real selling point was the beer, we had the Hefeweizen. Which was pretty fab. We decided to go for the gusto and get basically everything that a Biergarten would be known for (lol): pierogi, spaetzel, schnitzel! I was not impressed. The spaetzel was very bland, the pierogi were okay (in a town known for Eastern European food, they should have been fantastic). The schnitzel IMO was very dry, bland. Again, everything was just okay. If the service was better, we may have given it another try by the time we return.It wasn't terrible. That's all I got.
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Sean D.
Feb 16, 2025
Don't go here, terrible service, slow kitchen, dirty bathroom. Our visit was a second chance for this place and it got worse, a lot worse. First visit the server was attentive, but the food took forever and it was bland and boring. Went in today and knowing how long it took before we put our food order in with our drinks. It took forever and our server never checked in on us again. When our food came out by the expediter (not our server) we didn't have silverware or napkins to eat, or drink refills. I had to ask the hostess and even then it took a few minutes to get silverware and napkins to us. Part of our order was a fried chicken sandwich that tasted awful because the oil was dirty and at too high of a temperature. The only reason this is two stars instead of one is that they took the sandwich off of the bill. Skip this place and go just about anywhere else.
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Logan B.
Dec 23, 2024
Food and service always amazing!!! They have a nice variety of selections, we always have a great time.
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Becky M.
Jan 27, 2025
I had the worst experience here this past weekend. We had recommended the place and brought guests who never been there; our service was awful.
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Angela B.
Jan 30, 2025
Food was awful. They were out of fried chicken and sirloin. We arrived 1 hour after they opened so they were not prepared for the night. My iced tea was served in a plastic cup. Service was slow and there was only one other table occupied. For $74 for two beers, 3 sandwiches and an ice tea it isn't worth it. The only good about the place was the place itself and view.
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