Chicago, you have ruined me... (apartment, home, restaurant)

[prelude91]

Originally Posted by restorey

okay folks let's all face the facts.
fact number one we are pizza lovers.
fact number two deep dish is where it is at and the best comes from geno' uno's or lou's
fact numebr three when we can not get a deep dish pizza then we will suffer through a thin crust just counting the days until we can get a deep dish

I have to disagree on hour last point, my exPereience has been most chicagoans rarely have deep dish as an option, unless I had visitors I would never order deep dish.

[Chi-town Native]

LOL - when my wife went out of town for a week earlier this year I ate deep dish pizza every single night, from 3 different places.

I eat deep dish at least once a week, but I am including those frozen Gino's East ones, they are actually quite decent once you learn exactly how to time cooking them (5 minutes the wrong way in either direction makes a big difference).

Tom - had Pat's last week, grew up on it at the old location on Sheffield, I wasn't happy they moved further away, but at least they took over a space formerly occupied by a really old-school joint, the old Schmeissing's bakery on Lincoln.

[Irishtom29]

Originally Posted by restorey

okay folks let's all face the facts.
fact number one we are pizza lovers.
fact number two deep dish is where it is at and the best comes from geno' uno's or lou's
fact numebr three when we can not get a deep dish pizza then we will suffer through a thin crust just counting the days until we can get a deep dish

That's what we need, some hayshaker from Green Bay telling us what's what.

[restorey]

Originally Posted by Irishtom29

That's what we need, some hayshaker from Green Bay telling us what's what.

Irishtom, I was born in norweigian hospital on Kedzie ave. I went to HB Stowe and lived on N Troy st right across from Humboldt park yeah i am a hayseed dip****.

[restorey]

Originally Posted by restorey

Irishtom, I was born in norweigian hospital on Kedzie ave. I went to HB Stowe and lived on N Troy st right across from Humboldt park yeah i am a hayseed dip****.

or as we used to say back in the day Jag-off

[SpikeDurden]

I work at Lou Malnati's and I get free meals every shift and a 50% discount on all food. So yes, I eat a lot of deep dish. Somehow I'm still skinny. But yeah, even though I can get sick of it now, Lou's is by far the best Chicago style deep dish pizza.

[Attrill]

We eat a deep dish pizza about once every 4-6 weeks, and order thin crust with about the same frequency. I make homemade pizza about once every 2 weeks.

Malnati's is our go to place for deep dish, although Giordano's and Gino's are solid as well. For thin crust Pat's is definitely good, we used to order from them quite a bit. Lately we're going with John's Pizza on Western.

Originally Posted by Chi-town Native

I eat deep dish at least once a week, but I am including those frozen Gino's East ones, they are actually quite decent once you learn exactly how to time cooking them (5 minutes the wrong way in either direction makes a big difference).

Frozen Deep Dish holds up surprisingly well - the OP may be interested to know that Malnati's also sells their pizzas frozen.

[Vlajos]

We eat deep dish about once/month. I get thin for the little ones though.

[andrew61]

Originally Posted by edsg25

Reivax, a little history you may be unaware of...


it is (was) a fellow Texan of yours, Ike Sewell (a former UT football player), who got the whole deep dish pizza thing started at Uno's after WWII.

So if you like our deep dish pizza, you can smile with the notion that it could have a sausage made lone star spread across the mozarella and tomato sauce.

So are you saying deep dish pizza is really a Texan creation? Wow, I haven't been this disillusioned since I found out spaghetti was originally Chinese and not Italian.

[long101]

Originally Posted by Attrill

We eat a deep dish pizza about once every 4-6 weeks, and order thin crust with about the same frequency. I make homemade pizza about once every 2 weeks.

I have my lady friend stop by a deli on the southside for the makings of thin crust. Tastes better then anything Ive had.