• Taste the cocktails, wine, craft beers and snacks available in the hotel’s mezzanine bar, the Boulevard Lounge, which provides a true American neighborhood pub atmosphere. Try some happy hour lobster fritters, wings, or fries while enjoying the place where Pittsburgh meets.

• Dig into something substantial in the hotel's seafood-and-chophouse restaurant—or, The Whale, a Moby Dick-inspired eatery housed in the former Salvation Army gymnasium. The restaurant’s main eating area is ringed by upstairs catwalk seating and a bar on the old running track above, providing the perfect spot to sip hand-crafted cocktails while surveying the open kitchen below. The food ("farm and fisher to table") is fresh and of the highest quality.

• Delight in a local favorite, the least-healthy salad on Earth—the Pittsburgh salad, which would be an ordinary lettuce and vegetable salad if it weren't for the multiple layers of shredded cheese, lots of ranch dressing, and the french fries (aka Pittsburgh croutons) piled high on top.