Pittsburgh drinks: a history of cocktails, nightlife & bartending tradition

Pittsburgh's drinking culture is a story of its people: vibrant, hardworking and innovative.

During Prohibition, the Hill District became a center of jazz, speakeasies and creative cocktails.

In the following decades, a group of Cuban bartenders brought the nightlife of Havana to a robust café culture along Diamond Street.

Disco clubs gripped the city in the 1970s, and a music-centered nightlife began to grow in Oakland with such clubs as the Electric Banana.

Today, pioneering mixologists are forging a new and exciting bar revival in the South Side and throughout the city.

Pull up a stool and join Cody McDevitt and Sean Enright as they trace the history of Steel City drinking, along with a host of delicious cocktail recipes.