Apteka

08/02/2026

Lonely No More
August is living.

Sundays 9-11p

8/2 Mother Mushroom -
soundtracks the depths of chanterelle season with ancient and modern music of the Baltics - expect a fusion of meditative chants, expansive folk, vintage jazz and psychedelia.

8/9 Carrie Sours -
shares heirloom Northeast Ohio Funk, Boogie, New Wave and Electronic Dance Records 1979-1989.
Picked ripe, still good!

8/16 Amy Weiland
chews on the bone- and leans hard into the blue Chernobyl dog days of summer. atmospheric dub, hip hop, and a healthy shake of girl power.

8/23 Davis Galvin
puts in the work- expect god’s favorite angel to lay out a patchwork of cog works, atmospheres, canyons.
Leave the headlamps- D’s got glowing oscillations.

8/30 jazzteka vol.2!
Dylan Zeh, Derek Bendel, Eli Weidman-
LIVE FREE JAZZ-
Back to prove a point- Kinetic improvised jazz inspired sounds- group scribbling and free hand.

👁️👁️

08/02/2026

been loving the ig break- but we got to post some food pics before we throw up another lonely no more schedule :/

desserts this week—>

Ciasto Drożdżowe z Morelą
yeasted cake baked with roast apricots + roast apricot jam + crumb with apricot cream
^only here for the weekend

Lody z Pestek Wiśni z Pieczonymi Czereśniami
(pictured melting in the sun)
cherry pit + almond ice cream with roast sweet cherries + walnuts roast in post-cordial black walnut molasses

Ciasto Malinowe
layered sponge with raspberry jam, oat creme pat, light set raspberry flax meringue

>>>>>>

Every year, we head up to our buddy Jim’s orchard on Lake Ontario to pick some of bulk fruit we process for the year. Tomasz’s parents, Maria i Marek, plus the two of us and our occasional bonus picker ~my sister Claire!~ spend a day picking two RAV4s worth of fruit — dark tart cherries (mostly Jubileum & Balatons), apricots, and early plums.

This year has been bad for fruit —> a late frost ruining fruit crops across a lot of the eastern US. Jim lost almost all of his apricot crop and about 25% of cherries:( We came back with a little less than normal —> the 600 # of apricots from last year shrunk to a tough 100 # this year —> just 400 # dark tarts made it back this year —> tried to make up for a bit of the volume loss with 300 # of sweet cherries. (Apricot pic is some of the 2025 haul)

Most of the fruit gets processed for the year —> cordials for the bar, steam juiced for kompot musujacy, jam and sorbets for desserts. A small allotment goes toward the moment —> as always running a few weeks of sour cherry pierogi (maybe through next week?), plus a couple sweet things on the menu right now 😋

07/04/2026

🌝

Lonely No More 
Sundays 9-11p

deep summer. 
The start of the big stick.

July 5-  Il duo iItaliano - Zonamorta- piece together dark parts for a nocturnal celebration. 
Coolgoths4coolgoths. 

July 12- Alvin Row is making a late dinner- guy cooks for a big family- eat jazz, folk, electronic- no room for dessert. 

July 19- Indigo Baloch lingers in the maybe memory haze of late night drives and last kisses. Adrift in the tragical magical. 

July 26- Good Dude Lojack brings hope. 
Special rhythm rider extraordinaire makes it fun. 

C u soon
:*

07/04/2026

Closed today 7/4
Open tomorrow 7/5

📷 ꥟ ོ :)

07/04/2026

06/06/2026

oooOOOooo

Sundays 9-11p @ Apteka is Lonely No More.

June lineup:

6/7 (Tomorrow) : Jazzteka -
avant jazz exploration - live free jazz 3 piece-
Dylan Zeh, Eli Weidman, Derek Bendel.

6/14 Ziad Adamo shares post Arab spring awakening.
Traditional rhythms and music interpreted by contemporary artists and new instruments.

6/21 Michael Parente lingers for this last chance for a slow dance.
MP’s last weekend in Pittsburgh- set to soundtrack of techno> ambient> instrumental>
house> techno.

6/28 Dana Bishop Root plays Resistance songs.
>> A kind of breath work, a call to each other in rage, in grief, in tire.
Jubilation is inevitable.

c u soon:*

05/28/2026

Closed this Saturday, May 30th for a private event.

Regular hours otherwise:
Thursday 5/28 Vinoteka 5-9p
Friday 5/29 regular dinner service 5-10p
Sunday 5/31 regular dinner service 5-10p

C u soon:*

05/16/2026

Late start to spring this year is Pittsburgh. Hot then cold — some things got frost early, some things germinated late. Still relying on the last bit of root veg stores while more green makes it to the building:)

Asparagus made it to us a few weeks ago-
the set we’re running this year is a green tasty one —>
Amish + Mason Farms asparagus sauteed in smoked onion+BP/WP+++ vin
paste at the bottom from mostly blanched fresh mint + boiled sunseeds
green jus from blanched TRG spinach + parsley with coriander heavy light stock-
with a spent flax + onion bun for soppin up the mess-
in ever so slightly limited supply while we are only getting about 65 #/ week to tide us over

+ perennial favorite back for the season —> sparkling mint tea from Coldco mint + dried peppermint and our fresh peppermint

C u sooooon:*

05/02/2026

L o n e l y N o M o r e
M a y L i n e u p -—>

Tomorrow- this Sunday, May 3rd:
A Funeral Parade of Roses plays „Easy Listening For Difficult Personalities” —> leftfield selections of dub, post punk, ambient, jazz and komische.

May 10
Karilyo
fruit from hard labor grown in dub rich soil.

May 17
Kinseland Radio—> a vinyl-driven sonic experience created by Anqwenique and DS Kinsel —> listening to their hearts and trusting their hands to guide the groove, they take listeners on a journey through throwback deep cuts of classical, jazz, hip hop, rhythm and blues, rock, and retro pop.
Kinselland vinyl collection is a blend of ancestral inheritance and personal crate-digging discoveries.

May 24
Taste Sensation aka Anna B
plays through a spiritual commitment to your summer bod —> the salty taste of beading sweat on your upper lip + optimistic lunges.

May 31
Ricky Mawzlin
the other half of Jellyfish plays dreamy motorik grooves plucked from all over the world.

04/29/2026

In one week - Wednesday, May 6th - we are hosting our friends Agnes and Katarina from Slobodné Vinárstvo, a farm and vineyard in western Slovakia to help contextualize their beautiful wines while we cook some Slovak spring staples for dinner:)

Tickets available through the link in our bio and on our website:)

Read about the incredible story of their historic family vineyard here: https://www.littlewine.io/winemaker-magazine/slobodne

We’ll be pouring through some of our favorite bottles with lots of food to pair.

See you then:*