NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Aug 1999 16:03:16 GMT X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Xref: alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu chi.eats:5873 My favorite is about 20 minutes from Naperville on 75th Street and Lemont Road in Darien its HOME RUN IN try the cheese sausage and fresh garlic it is the very best if you are a garlic lover. CONNIE's Pizza is in Naperville they have an excellent deep dish we always get the vegetable variety { green pepper, mushroom, broccoli, onion and black olive}. They offer a lunch buffet the is very good and probably close to where you will be working. There is also a Barone's in Lisle on Main street Eat side of street about 1 block south of Ogden Ave.. There thin crust is great and they have a good Italian menu as well the minestrone soup is the very best around here IMHO. Hope you enjoy your visit. The F. wrote in message ... >I will be spending 2 weeks in Naperville on business. I will have a >free weekend to check out the Chicago area. I'd like to try some >authentic "Chicago style" pizza. I'm looking for recommendations and >suggestions. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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> I will be spending a couple of weeks on business in the Chicago > suburbs. I'd like to try some authentic "Chicago style" pizza. > I will have a free weekend to spend in the city. Any recommendations > or suggestions are appreciated. Lou Malnati's, in the western suburbs Pizzeria Due, Gino's East, Pizzeria Uno - downtown
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:31:18 CDT Organization: U S WEST Interprise Xref: pale-rider.INS.CWRU.Edu chi.eats:5891 I think that Connies doesnt travel well as the other places (which are also not the original locations). The original Bridgeport location is always the best. You must be a non-native. Pizza does not belong on a buffet. There are few places I would consider even buying pizza by the slice (Milanos in Bridgeport and Pompeii on Taylor. I heard that Pompeii opened up a branch in Oak Brook). If you are traveling alone you may want to consider that Naperville is the multiple birth capital of the US. Lou's can be a very noisy obnoxious kid oriented place. Later in the evening is a better time to eat. Dennis CINDY G. wrote: > My favorite is about 20 minutes from Naperville on 75th Street and Lemont > Road in Darien its HOME RUN IN try the cheese sausage and fresh garlic it is > the very best if you are a garlic lover. > CONNIE's Pizza is in Naperville they have an excellent deep dish we always > get the vegetable variety { green pepper, mushroom, broccoli, onion and > black olive}. They offer a lunch buffet the is very good and probably close > to where you will be working. > There is also a Barone's in Lisle on Main street Eat side of street about 1 > block south of Ogden Ave.. There thin crust is great and they have a good > Italian menu as well the minestrone soup is the very best around here IMHO. > Hope you enjoy your visit. > The F. wrote in message ... > >I will be spending 2 weeks in Naperville on business. I will have a > >free weekend to check out the Chicago area. I'd like to try some > >authentic "Chicago style" pizza. I'm looking for recommendations and > >suggestions. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
After years of eating pizza in several cities in Illinois and Wisconsin my favorite tends to be: Joe Maggiolini's at 5723 West 63rd Street in Chicago (just west of Central; southside of the street-keep your eyes open it's easy to miss.) I have only tried the thin crust on several occasions, but I understand that the deep dish is excellent also. I like all the toppings, but I happened to share a plain cheese with a friend and found it to be great! Grab a pizza and drive over to Midway airport on the west side of the field. Watch the planes takeoff..beautiful at night, and on a clear night a good view of downtown.
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 20:27:28 EDT Organization: Peak to Peak Internet (peakpeak.com) Xref: pale-rider.INS.CWRU.Edu chi.eats:5889 The F. wrote in article ... > I will be spending 2 weeks in Naperville on business. I will have a > free weekend to check out the Chicago area. I'd like to try some > authentic "Chicago style" pizza. I'm looking for recommendations and > suggestions. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. I'd recommend two places: Gino's East (Superior & St. Clair) is the best in town, IMO; its down in the Loop area near the lake. Another place I really like is D'Agostino's (at Addison & Southport) in the Wrigleyville area, northwest of Wrigley Field. And the original Pizzaria Uno/Due downtown is excellent also (the Unos that operate under a Boston-based chain around the country are a joke, that taste nothing like the original). I've heard more bad things than good about Malnottis and Connies; but its all personal preference... :-)
NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Aug 1999 01:16:48 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 X-No-Archive: yes Xref: pale-rider.INS.CWRU.Edu chi.eats:5875 The F. wrote: >I will be spending 2 weeks in Naperville on business. I will have a >free weekend to check out the Chicago area. I'd like to try some >authentic "Chicago style" pizza. I'm looking for recommendations and >suggestions. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. Connie's, on the North side of Ogden as you leave Naperville and enter Lisle. It's in a strip mall, and I don't remember the cross street. You will NOT regret stopping there. Nice place, GREAT deap-dish pizza. Paul
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:48:26 GMT Xref: pale-rider.INS.CWRU.Edu chi.eats:5990 > > I'd recommend two places: Gino's East I hope this is a joke. This place doesn't even have the right to call that stuff it makes pizza! Everyone I talk to gets sick to their stomache after trying to eat a slice of that crap.
NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Aug 1999 19:33:10 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Xref: pale-rider.INS.CWRU.Edu chi.eats:5901 On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 09:46:21 -0700, Dennis Suchta Someone wrote: >> (and if you know where i can find some in san fran, >> please clue me in). > >SF does not have a really good pizza. I did frequent Tomassos in North >Beach (on Kearny, south of Broadway between two adult theaters). The >sausage is sliced so I tended to avoid it. I would usually get a meat >ball & onion pizza (the meat ball was the closest to what I want in a >meat topping). I also requested extra cheese (they never put enough >on). Zachary's on Solano (east bay) is close to Giordanos type of >pizza. The thin crust is ok. When I was really desperate I'd pick up a >pizza at Windy City in San Mateo (close to where I worked,it was on the >way home). > >Dennis Ok, we may be drifting off topic here, but what a great thread! As far as the Frisco area goes (oops, sorry, I couldn't resist living in SoCal. And to think I used to live in MountainView), it seems to me like there are a few Uno's (and there is at least one here in SoCal as well). Now, let me make a MAJOR distinction -- there is Uno's and there is Numero Uno chains. Numero Uno is a god-awful thing with tomato chunks that I did not care for at all. The Uno's chains I've been to in CA have been adequate at the least. Here in SoCal, much has been written up about a place way out of the LA area in Moreno Valley called the Chicago Pasta House. Now, this IS the real deal, almost on par with the Original Uno/Due, Giordano's, etc. Super deep crust, rich sauce, and a truckload of cheese. Also, near me in Irvine is a place called Chicago Chicago...decent italian Beef, good thin crust pizza, and a lot of Chicago memorabilia to make me feel right at home. - Bob in RSM, CA P.S. Next week I'll be visiting the family in Downers Grove! Home Run Inn and others -- here I come!
I had pretty much given up on Uno's (the original one; I went to one of the clones once and the less said about that the better). On two separate visits a year or two ago we had very disappointing pies. The crust was undercooked and doughy and everything was buried under a mass of bland cheese that just overwhelmed and deadened everything. Didn't seem at all worth braving the crowds for. A few months ago I was dragged back and had a very good pizza (don't know if it was just a coincidence but it was not very crowded that night). The acidic, almost uncooked, tomato and fresh garlic flavors came through loud and clear. The crust was perfectly done and the cheese was in balance with the rest of the ingredients. Although it's not my very favorite pizza, I remembered why people get excited about Uno's. To me, for better or worse, this is the definitive Chicago pizza. Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
There's a place called the Front Room on 9th in the Sunset in SF that used to have Chicago style. Not up to what I get here, but still very good. On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, t r i l l i u m wrote: > Someone wrote: > > ~(and if you know where i can find some in san fran, > ~please clue me in). > > Dontcha know it's The City, SF or San Francisco? But never Frisco or San > Fran :-) > > As for pizza, I don't think you are going to be able to find any > Chicago-style, in all my pizza eating forays in the city, I never encountered > it. But you can find splendid California style pizzas, and half-way decent NY > style or even something that resembles pizza you might eat in Italy (heaven > forbid). Funnily enough, those are the ones I long for...I guess the grass is > always greener..... > > regards, > trillium > >
Arsenio, as a teen( late '60's) I lived in Oak Lawn and we had a great local thin crust pizza from a place that has been long since out of business..however also as a teen, my favorite hangout on the weekends would be in Old Town at a pizza place in the back of the old Piper's Alley. (can't remember the name of the place) There I had my first pan pizza...Gino's, Uno, Duo, Nancy's, Giordano's.. did not compare...it was great at the time. Pizza is in the taste of the beholder...the best we can do is tell others what we like and let them decide for themselves. I am a thin crust lover, and have found the best pizza to come from the neighborhood place rather than chain or multi-locations. I have lived all over in IL and WI...born in the suburban Chicago area....I can say that No place I have lived has a good pizza EXCEPT the Chicago area. I expected Milwaukee to have a good pizza reference because of the large Italian influence in the town. (great antipasto, calamari and pasta; But not pizza) If you have a chance try my current favorite: Joe Maggiolini's 5723 W. 63rd Street Chicago, IL (773-585-6144) or in the Oak Lawn area try my 2nd favorite: Little Joe's Pizza 9546 Southwest Highway (708-346-0707) .............................................................................. Arsenio O. wrote: > > Anyone who weighs into this discussion and wants any credibility, > I suspect, must first establish his/her bona fides. I hereby do > so: I was born in Hyde Park, raised in East Garfield Park and in > Albany Park and currently live in Rogers Park. And for good measure: > my dear wife was born in Evanston, raised in Old Town and Oak Park, > and our kids live with us here in wonderful EAST Rogers Park. In > other words, we're from here! > > Now... > > As a Chicago pizza xenophobe, I must, respectfully, object to your > inclusion of stuffed pizza in the Chicago-pizza genre. > -- > Arsenio Oloroso, Jr.