Mario's Oakland Saloon

 We would love to tell you that the success of Mario’s South Side Saloon was born of the blood, sweat, and tears of three hard-working professionals who possessed unparalleled vision, but that would be stretching it…In truth, Mario’s was created by a local Pittsburgh legend named Bob Pessolano in 1982. After 25 years of devotion to his South Side patrons, he retired in 2007 and left his establishment to 3 young professional drinkers who had the foresight to not fix which was not broken… In 2011...