{"id":142846,"date":"2026-03-19T15:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/142846\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T15:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:46:07","slug":"upscale-dining-groups-embrace-local-tradition-and-fry-fish-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/142846\/","title":{"rendered":"Upscale dining groups embrace local tradition and fry fish \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 While abstaining from meat on Fridays is a long-standing Catholic tradition dating back centuries, the sheer volume of fried fish in the region is a distinctly Pittsburgh tradition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">It was Fish Fry season last year when Big Burrito Group brought in a chef from New York to consult on some projects. When Bill Fuller, the group\u2019s president, suggested the two visit a fish fry, the visiting chef said, \u201cwhat are you talking about?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cI was like, \u2018fish fries, you know, fish fries,\u2019 and he had had no idea,\u201d Fuller said. \u201cIt was interesting, because as far as we\u2019re all concerned, it\u2019s fish fry season and it\u2019s always been fish fry season this time of year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/03\/13\/fish-fries-upscale-menus.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/03\/13\/fish-fries-upscale-menus.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 While abstaining from meat on Fridays is a long-standing Catholic tradition dating back centuries, the sheer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28146,52793,65302,65301,65298,73,65299,75,74,65300],"class_list":["post-142846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-fish","tag-fish-fry","tag-fish-fry-locations","tag-fish-fry-season","tag-fried-fish","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-fish-fry","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-upscale-fish-fry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}