Taking the family to Chicago for the holiday weekend. We have never been, so I need to know one thing: Where should we eat pizza?
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Chicago style pizza is a travesty. Ridiculous, really.
Uno's, Lou Malnati's, Giordano's.......these are the main mega players for the traditional Chicago Deep Dish.
http://chicago.eater.com/maps/chicagos-25-iconic-pizzerias
http://chicago.eater.com/maps/chicagos-25-iconic-pizzerias
This. There is a great rock n roll Mc Donalds up there or one on the skyway that is really great. I think the Burger King on Michigan Ave might be the best in the greater Chicago area.
Never understood this kind of thinking. Pizza is like sex. There is "making love" and there is "f_______g". Both are awesome and I always welcome either.
And even when it is bad......it's good.
You have to realize there are some very refined palates in the Paddock. What's delicious to us peasants tastes like garbage to them.
Just make sure you eat ALL of the pizza. Don't leave any half-eaten pizza on your plate that might have some of your DNA on it.
Oh, and your best bet is to order a pizza from the Gatlinburg Papa Johns and have it flown into Chicago.
Oh, and your best bet is to order a pizza from the Gatlinburg Papa Johns and have it flown into Chicago.
Chicago pizza a travesty?... TF is wrong with people?
Papa John's is a travesty, Chi-town pie is not.
Papa John's is a travesty, Chi-town pie is not.
Jesus. Like the Chicago thing as much as you want, just understand it isn't pizza... It was invented by a WASP honky from Texas.
This is my favorite whenever I visit - especially if you don't prefer deep dish:
http://www.piecechicago.com
For deep dish Lou Malnati's is the spot.
http://www.piecechicago.com
For deep dish Lou Malnati's is the spot.
I ate at Lou M a year who and was not impressed. It was good but nothing special IMO. Maybe I need to go back and try it again. I'm definitely not a food snob.
DiGiorno's is really good, it may be hard to find a brick and mortar for a sit down pie, if you can't, just stop by a grocery and get one, it is so good, you will not even notice the difference. Doing so saves a lot of time and hassle of fighting traffic and people.
Im surprised no one had mentioned it either.
I think the whole style is good but not great. Too much crust for me.
All kidding aside, I like thin crust, so Vito and Nick's is my favorite. Had Santullo's once while there and it was damn good. It is NYC style, which is good because I do not like all the pie offered in Chicago. Just wayyyy too much dough for me. Neither place is real fancy, just real good pizza.
First of all it's not pizza. Second it's terrible. True Chicago foodies are embarrassed by it. City has way more to offer that isn't that ridiculous pan of bullshit.
Anth is going a bit overboard, here. I enjoy Chicago style once per trip...it's good & something different. Definitely not my preferred style....but, terrible?
Chicago Style Cracker Thin Crust > Thick crust, though, for sure...
Chicago Style Cracker Thin Crust > Thick crust, though, for sure...
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Actually if you watch Bourdain Layover: Chicago you'll see this is actually true.
I'm playing it up a bit. Chicago style at it's best is good. It is what it is, but whatever the hell that is, certainly isn't pizza. That's for damn sure.
Chicago = Big f*cking steaks, Italian beef and countless other meats shoved into tubes. If you want to waste a meal on that chicago sauce pie thing, your mistake.
I'm playing it up a bit. Chicago style at it's best is good. It is what it is, but whatever the hell that is, certainly isn't pizza. That's for damn sure.
Chicago = Big f*cking steaks, Italian beef and countless other meats shoved into tubes. If you want to waste a meal on that chicago sauce pie thing, your mistake.
Because people only eat one meal on each trip to Chicago.
Horrible take Anth.
What makes pizza so great is it can be made so many ways and all be good.
I love NY style, Chicago deep dish style, Neapolitan style. It can all be good.
If I'm in Chicago I'm getting a deep dish at least once.
But if you want to talk overrated Chicago food we can talk about Mortons. Good but nowhere near great. Not even best prime chain steak.
Agree on your getting deep dish once, just. I always do, probably always will. Certainly have my favorites (NY, Neo), but I can enjoy all styles of pizza...
But Umm, why TF would you go to a Chain steakhouse that you could eat in Louisville (or any other city) when in a beef mecca like Chicago? Morton's is fine, but that's pretty stupid, you deserved a bad experience imo.
But Umm, why TF would you go to a Chain steakhouse that you could eat in Louisville (or any other city) when in a beef mecca like Chicago? Morton's is fine, but that's pretty stupid, you deserved a bad experience imo.
Goodness. That's probably the most tryhard thing I've seen on Catspaws.
No it isn't. He's just a "true Chicago foodie" trying to save us from becoming food "simpletons". You should thank him for the tip.
Guess that's why Malnati's, Geno's East and the like struggle to keep their doors open.
I know you're too good and too refined for "chain pizza" but some of us can manage to scarf it down and even, on occasion, enjoy it. Yep no difference in Malnati and the Pizza Hut Tuesday night buffet at all. And yes we know you've eaten at Pequod's. . .only had to tell us once.
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