Posted on 03/26/2021 8:17:50 AM PDT by mylife
Chicago is famous for many things: tall buildings, great universities, a history of organized crime, and deep-dish pizza.
The two goliaths in this game are Giordano's and Lou Malnati's. I'm no deep-dish expert, but I had my share of the dense, cheesy pie during my college years in the Chicago area. Deep-dish was the pizza of choice at most gatherings, unfortunately for me as I am lactose-intolerant.
Aside from the fact that deep-dish always made me feel sick, I remembered thinking Giordano's was slightly better than Lou Malnati's. But that might have just been because people ate it more.
In general, I never saw what all the fuss was about. Deep-dish just never tasted that good to me.
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There are a few fine hole-in-the-wall restaurants here in central Indiana, and your post has reminded me that we are due to visit one of them in the next few days. Lovely Italian place with terrific lasagna, pizza, and chicken Alfredo. It’ll break my calorie budget for a day to have just one of those faves, but a visit there is worth the 20 minute drive. Cash preferred. (Used to be cash only before CoVid.) Perillo’s, here we come!
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I haven’t lived in Michigan for over 20 years and my mouth still starts watering at the mention of Shields. My favorite pizza, ever. How do I get them to start a franchise in Wyoming??
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New York pizza snob here.
Deep dish is good, it’s just not pizza.
A very sad post for me. My stomach is to old for pizza anymore. I loved pizza, could have eaten it everyday.
The best pizza I ever had was at a lake fun-fair type place in Westchester County, NY. Can’t remember the name of the lake.
Not only was the crust a bit like a pastry crust, but the pizza was baked on a layer of some kind of shortening too. The Naples Police would put these folks in jail. I’m just saying.
I thought of that
I see there is another butter crust fan here. I’m guessing they don’t use real butter. Too expensive.
A boutique coffee place that opened in my neighborhood a few years ago had one counter woman who heated up the already buttery croissants on a thin layer of butter. Not to be believed. But she was soon gone. Now they are gone too.
I worked at a southwest side of Chicago at a carryout pizza joint from 1964 to about 1972. None of that Downtown deep dish stuff. Best southside pizza was probably HOME RUN INN or Connie’s. Completely different than the stuff sold downtown or northside. Thin crust, fresh sausage, lots of ground cheese, baked directly on the oven surface.
Neither.
As it should be
Caruso’s in Angola Indiana serves a German styled Chicago pizza with sausage and sauerkraut. Pretty. Damn. Good.
There was a place in St. Louis called “Imo’s” - not in “The Hill” neighborhood, but as I recall maybe near U. City. They called their pie “St. Louis style”, and it did have a distinctly different taste - and a pretty good one, at least in my opinion.
An odd combo, but I’ll bite...
Nah, they cover it with a light layer of cocaine, and you rock, the pizza sucks:)
I’m here to tell the world that St. Louis hill district is a gem of Italian food that rivals much larger cities
One of my best buddies was born in Rome and raised in the Oranges and he married a southern Missouri girl who considers herself a Dixie lass
He was bowed over when she took him to the Hill in St Louis
Said it was as authentic as anywhere in Jersey or Brooklyn
I’ve since made it a point to time it when I pass through there headed west for eats
https://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=italian&find_loc=The+Hill%2C+Saint+Louis%2C+MO
Back in the day, one of my regular dinners used to be a medium Lou Malnatis deep dish sausage pizza along with a liter of Pepsi. I weighed 142 pounds.
Not anymore ;-)
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