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Old 12-26-2013, 12:48 PM
 
Location: Here
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I prefer Deep Dish to thin crust.
Favorite pizza places

#1 Pequods (deep dish and my favorite pizza)


#2-sofar, Giordanos


Lou Malnati's is alright. I can definitely eat it. And Connie's is alright too.


My other favorite places are
Damenzos on Taylor (thin crust)
Bacci (5 dollar jumbo slice with coke! I think it's thin crust)
Villa Palermo on west Devon (Calzone and free pepsi!)
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Old 12-26-2013, 06:51 PM
 
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
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I prefer Deep Dish to thin crust.
Favorite pizza places

#1 Pequods (deep dish and my favorite pizza)
I never went to Pequod's and intended to before leaving town but forgot. Anyway, I'm getting better pizza and sub sandwiches down here than I was in Chicago, that's a surprise, many good Italian joints around here; people from Philly, New Jersey and New York.
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Old 12-27-2013, 10:59 AM
 
Location: Chicago, IL
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Chicago has many delicious signature foods that I would be happy to consume to the point of morbid obesity (Italian beef sandwiches for example), but Chicago-style pizza has never been my favorite, whether thin crust or deep dish. I think it's cause Chicago pizzas are made with short crusts, with added fat. This makes them more pastry or cake-like. I like pizza crust to be essentially bread, just flour, yeast, water and salt.

A Chicago thin crust sausage pie with plenty of cornmeal on the bottom is fine eating, but it's never gonna be my favorite.

I'd better say no more. My office is full of native suburban Malnati's partisans so I'm behind enemy lines over here.
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Old 12-27-2013, 11:15 AM
 
Location: Leeds, England
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In Chicago, deep dish. And i'd probably go for deep dish at any time, but i did have a beautiful thin crust for $1 in New York
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Old 12-27-2013, 01:28 PM
 
Location: Humboldt Park, Chicago
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My favorite local pizza by far is Dante's Pizza (They make a mean thin crust, which is my preference)
If I'm in the mood for a thicker, cheesier pizza, I go for Roots. Neither of these is a classic "Chicago Style", they just happen to be my favorites in Chicago. There are still a lot of highly recommended joints I want to check out (Like Pequod's for instance) but I'm out of their delivery area and/or they're in neighborhoods I don't find myself in very often.
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Old 12-27-2013, 03:19 PM
 
Location: Lake Arlington Heights, IL
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I never went to Pequod's and intended to before leaving town but forgot. Anyway, I'm getting better pizza and sub sandwiches down here than I was in Chicago, that's a surprise, many good Italian joints around here; people from Philly, New Jersey and New York.
You blasphemer! It is sacrilege to say anybody else has better pizza! Although I had a REALLY good thin crust pizza in Burlington VT last week
And thin vs. Thick?! I say BOTH; yes I love BOTH.. Breaking this down to either or is as crazy as saying one needs to be a Cubs fan OR Sox Fan
Oh and send us some warm weather & Sunshine
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Old 12-27-2013, 06:34 PM
 
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Sorry if I already answered, but Lou's is the best. Time for another Manhattan, cheers. ..
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Old 12-29-2013, 07:56 PM
 
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If I'm in the mood for a thicker, cheesier pizza, I go for Roots. Neither of these is a classic "Chicago Style", they just happen to be my favorites in Chicago.
Roots is actually Quad-Cities style pizza, where the pizza is cut into strips. Roots is the only place outside of the QC where I get taco pizza. No one else comes close.

One of the best thin crust pizzas is Marie's. The pizza along with the '70's ambience is an experience.

I agree with all who recommended Pequod's and LouMalnati's.
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Old 12-30-2013, 06:04 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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Lou Malnati's had downtown joints and IMO their Chicago thin is very good.
Tom, Lou's thin always amazes me. How the king of deep dish was able to come up with a thin pizza that is not only delicious but also unique (I've never tasted anything like it) is an amazing feat, especially in light of our expectations that a thin pizza here would be an after thought.

nobody…NOBODY!!!…..can offer the 1-2 punch that Lou's can!

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Old 12-30-2013, 06:06 AM
 
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
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I tried Marie's when I moved to pizza desert (and beef desert) Lincoln Square, I thought it was a greasy mess. I'm talking a basic cheese and sausage. After several misfires with local pizza joints I tried Jimmy's New York style at Lincoln and Foster and stuck with it; that place is good.

Anyway, Jimmy's prepared me for my move down here and the several excellent East Coast style pizza joints I've found here. I found better pizza in St. Augustine than in my North Side neighborhood, A happy discovery.
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