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Old 05-01-2016, 12:01 PM
 
Location: Humboldt Park, Chicago
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Chicago loses another culinary icon. (I'm still kicking myself for not getting to try Burt's Place before it closed.)

Burt Katz, legendary pizza maker and owner of Burt's Place, dies at 78 - Chicago Tribune

I understand he was the original owner of Pequods.
(Does anybody know if Pequod's has remained true to his original recipes/execution?)
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Old 05-02-2016, 10:05 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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52 Years in the pizza business!

I'm also disappointed at myself for not getting to check it out before it closed.

RIP Mr. Katz.
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Old 05-02-2016, 10:09 AM
 
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I've been to Pequods but not Burts. (RIP). From what I understand it is very similar.
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Old 05-02-2016, 11:20 AM
 
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Default Well, yeah...

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I've been to Pequods but not Burts. (RIP). From what I understand it is very similar.
The fact is Burt had a flair for being a curmudgeonly type. There were some differences in kind of important details about how he did his pizzas, mostly about the specific steps he went through allowing the pizza dough to rise as well as the variations in his sauce, but these resulted in rather subtle differences. I have heard that there is apparently a deal in the works to reopen Burt's Place under new ownership. If his wife is involved I suspect that Burt's little quirks can be translated to another generation, but I also wonder if the extra steps he found so important also made it kind of impossible to make the venture commercially feasible.

It is not at all improbable that like other places that became synonymous with "obsession" also suffered from a mismatch with economic reality --

Great Lake: a pizza joint both hard and easy to love - tribunedigital-chicagotribune

Pasticceria Natalina Closing , here's the much "juicer" article where she and her husband basically give the city a big "f - u" and details how it is more important they have sex breaks in the bathroom of the place than sell treats to rich people http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2...alie-zarzour/2...


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Old 05-02-2016, 03:10 PM
 
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I couldn't help but notice a definite frown on his face, which might explain the curmudgeonly behavior...
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