Robert Wholey & Co.

1501 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PA - (412) 261-3377

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Posted By Michael Stern on August 15, 2007 8:50 AM

Once strictly a wholesale fish market, Wholey now carries a vast inventory of foodstuffs that range from baked ham by the haunch (or sliced super thin, aka chipped-chopped, the way Pittsburghers like it) to sides of tuna that are cut into steaks to order. Everywhere you look, there is fresh fish on ice, and as you explore the mazelike market, you also find terrific selections of cookware, canned and bottled groceries, and produce of the highest quality.

For those of us who demand immediate gratification, there are a few makeshift tables for sit-down meals at the end of a cooked food line towards the front of the store. And there are more tables upstairs in the Pittsburgh Room. Virtually anything sold raw is available to be cooked – “You buy, we fry” is the in-house motto; but the meal most people come to eat is a fish sandwich, made of cod sizzled in the bubbling fry kettles towards the front. It is common to see grocery-browsers munching a sandwich on the stroll as they peruse this truly amazing market.

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