July 8, 2026 The 90 Cones Project was born one year ago today! Twelve months after brainstorming this crazy idea on the way to the orthodontist and making our first stop in Squirrel Hill North (shout out to Nana’s Scoops!), we have visited nearly 37% of Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods. We’ve visited old favorites and discovered brand…

We are so proud of the way this project has progressed, and as we come up on its one-year anniversary and finally get around to posting the 30th neighborhood, we want to say a big thank you to everyone who has engaged with the blog. The 90 Cones Project has been an incredible experience and…

This is a hard post to write. Sunday, May 17 was the final day of business for La Scola’s Italian Ice and Custard, a dessert destination so dear to us that we had once planned to make it our 90th celebratory cone. As we live very near to Highland Park, La Scola’s has long been…

In our official 90 Cones planning spreadsheet, we have a category called “walkable” for neighborhoods that we can get to without a car. These are neighborhoods adjacent to East Liberty, reachable from home via a comfortable after dinner walk. On September 20th, we officially broke that category. We walked 12.5 miles and crossed all three…