Cue Eminem’s “guess who’s back” riff on the speakers—the Pittsburgh Pierogi Festival is back, tell a friend. Tickets are live for the 2025 festival after a two-year hiatus left Pittsburgh without this annual celebration of its most beloved food.
Presented by Peoples Gas, the festival will be back and better than ever, on May 17, 2025 with both local vendors and out-of-towners from ten different states. The 2022 winner of the festival’s Peoples Choice Award was Pietryzyk Pierogi from Detroit, Michigan, who will return to Pittsburgh in 2025 to defend their title.
The Pittsburgh Pierogi Festival Returns for 2025
Festivalgoers can look forward to the Pop-Up Pierogi Marketplace, live music, and free activities for all ages at SouthSide Works, the open-air shopping complex just off of the gritty liveliness of East Carson Street that was the site of the very first Pierogi Festival in 2013. Over a decade later, the festival hopes to both return to its roots and allow visitors to make new memories.
Lynne Szarnick, owner of Pittsburgh Pierogi Truck, remembers the 2013 inaugural Pittsburgh Pierogi Festival in one colorful line: “It was BANANAS.” Szarnick sold out of her pierogies in 1 hour straight. “Let’s do that again!” she exclaimed.
Erica Pietryzyk of Pietryzk Pierogi, will return in 2025. “Coming to Pittsburgh allowed me to experience where Babcia grew up and I found my home away from home. Then I found Gooski’s and I knew I was meant to be here,” she said.(Who hasn’t had that experience in the smoke-filled halls of Gooski’s at some point?)
The Festival is also welcoming newcomers like The Speckled Egg—just down the block in SouthSide Works—to the event. “We have always wanted to participate,” Jacqueline Schoeder of the Speckled Egg said. “Now that it’s at our door we have every reason to get in the pierogi-game. We already have a fun collaboration up our sleeve!”
Pre-sale tickets are $7 for adults, $4 for 12 and under, and under 2 are free. Tickets are on sale now via ShowClix.
Story by Emma Riva
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