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The pizza in the Unos chains isn't the same as the pizza in the original Unos and Dues on Wabash.
Real Chicago "old neighborhood" pizza is thin crust and cut in squares, the pan stuff is for tourists or as something different to get when you'd go downtown.
The pizza shown is from Phil's on 35th St. in the Bridgeport neighborhood on the South Side. The crust is thin but not super thin and crispy on the bottom but with a thin bready texture above the crispness. This guy's sausage is as good as any I've had and the cheese is top quality, this guy's pizza bursts with flavor.
About a mile east at 35th and Normal, just west of Sox Park, is 35th St. Red Hots, as good a hot dog stand as there is in Chicago. A Vienna in a snappy natural casing and fresh cut fries. What else you want?
The pizza in the Unos chains isn't the same as the pizza in the original Unos and Dues on Wabash.
Real Chicago "old neighborhood" pizza is thin crust and cut in squares, the pan stuff is for tourists or as something different to get when you'd go downtown.
The pizza shown is from Phil's on 35th St. in the Bridgeport neighborhood on the South Side. The crust is thin but not super thin and crispy on the bottom but with a thin bready texture above the crispness. This guy's sausage is as good as any I've had and the cheese is top quality, this guy's pizza bursts with flavor.
About a mile east at 35th and Normal, just west of Sox Park, is 35th St. Red Hots, as good a hot dog stand as there is in Chicago. A Vienna in a snappy natural casing and fresh cut fries. What else you want?
OMG those pictures just got me completely homesick
And it's funny but I used to live in the Bridgeport neighborhood when we lived in Chicago, right smack in the middle of a Polish neighborhood.
Now, Tom, thin crust Chicago pizza is from the south side (hence, Bridgeport). Us northsiders eat the thick crust pizza...like Unos or Lou Malnati's (up by O'Hare). (more Sicilians up on the north side, I guess)
Now, Tom, thin crust Chicago pizza is from the south side (hence, Bridgeport). Us northsiders eat the thick crust pizza...like Unos or Lou Malnati's (up by O'Hare). (more Sicilians up on the north side, I guess)
The West Side was thin crust too, as was the Northwest Side. Let's see, the areas with the city with the most Italians, West and South Sides, were thin crust and the part that was Polish and German liked thick?
A very famous thin crust place on the North Side was Father and Son.
Now there was a place long ago on 16th St. in Berwyn called Salernos that did a very thick, bready and chewy crust but it wasn't like a pan crust such as Manati's and Unos. I used to go there back in the 1960s and they're still around.
And the Home Run Inn from the West Side did a thin crust but thicker than normal. Many think Home Run Inn is the best pizza in Chicago; 50 years ago when it was a small hole in the wall my Dad would drive several miles over there to get a pie.
Then I used to go to DeLeo's Bakery on Taylor St. and get a piece of sheet pizza; they made a bready pizza in large square sheets and cut you off a piece with a pair of scissors.
Yes, I know Father & Son well. Now I go to their location near Milwaukee/Devon for their broasted chicken...YUMMY...but, not pizza...too thin. "stuff" on a cracker, we called it.
When I was back in the old neighbourhood (Logan Square) went to the location on Diversey as a kid. My mom liked that thin crust pizza, but, my dad & I were thick crust all the way!!
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