Editor Pick
Chicago Pizza
- June 8, 2008
- Rated 3 of 5 by
Wasatch from heber ctity, Utah
We had been walking around the Modernista Quarter for a couple hours and weer starting to think about taking a break for lunch when, just as we were passing, the Chicago Pizza through open its doors. As that must have been a Sign from Above, in we went. The décor was reminiscent of Fuddruker's but limited to a Chicago theme-- Division St. street signs, poster for the Cubs, photos of downtown Chicago. No doubt this was exotic to Europeans, but we found it wildly out place and hilariously tacky. This is what Globalization does for you.
Otherwise, the restaurant was large, with four interconnected dining rooms staggering around the ground floor of a century old building. Most walls were exposed brick with dark timbers here and there. It would have been a most attractive setting with the Chicago bric-a-brac removed.
Needless to say, pizza was stressed on the menu. Two lists of pizzas were offered, Chicago style deep dish or thin crust (Italian). As it difficult to find anything resembling Italian pizza where we lived, she ordered that, the classic Pizza Marguerite (mozzarella cheese, basil, tomato). Although the pizza wasn't quite up to what we had in Rome, it was fine.
I had what the menu described as “pizza prosciutto”, only it wasn't. The ham was not any sort of cured country ham, just diced bland boiled ham, and too much of it at that. It smothered the pizza. It was OK, but a mistake to order. I should have had pizza Marguerite.
We also had a nice bottle of wine.
Service was friendly, prompt, and efficient.
The bill, including tax & tip, came to $23. Since you can't even get a bottle of wine in restaurant for as little as $23 where we live (Utah), it counts as bargain, despite the record bad exchange rate.
In keeping with the tacky Chicago theme, the rest rooms (very nice) are identified as “Elton John” and “Olivia Newton John”.
From journal Cruising the Rhone River