{"id":264605,"date":"2026-08-13T14:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264605\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:22:07","slug":"new-eatery-opens-in-former-landmark-pittsburgh-restaurant-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264605\/","title":{"rendered":"New Eatery Opens In Former Landmark Pittsburgh Restaurant Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wok Hei has opened barely three months after the closure of <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/pittsburgh\/pittsburgh-restaurant-landmark-location-closes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Viva Los Tacos,<\/a> the first restaurant to open in the Original Hot Dog Shop space. Viva Los Tacos went out of business after a four-year run.<\/p>\n<p>The famed Original &#8211; or &#8220;The O&#8221; &#8211; as it commonly was called &#8211; opened across the street from Forbes Field during the Pittsburgh Pirates 1960 World Series Championship season. Over the years, the two-story eatery was featured on various TV programs such as The Food Network&#8217;s &#8220;Unwrapped,&#8221; the PBS special &#8220;A Hot Dog Program&#8221; and others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wok Hei has opened barely three months after the closure of Viva Los Tacos, the first restaurant to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-264605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264605","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=264605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}