Pizzeria Uno

Desiree Koh
Desiree Koh
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5 out of 5
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Pizzeria Uno

  • September 13, 2002
  • Rated 4 of 5 by scp22 from Chicago, Illinois
Pizzeria Uno is the finest Chicago style pizza restaurant in the city. I find that funny since it is now a franchise that has spread across the Eastern US. For other location info and a menu check out http://www.pizzeriauno.com.

This restaurant is popular during normal dining hours, and the deep dish pizzas take a good 45min-1hour to prepare. Give yourself at least 1 hour before you are going to be starving to get your name on the waiting list. In order to speed things up, when you give the hostess your name, you also give her your order. This means that by the time you get a seat your pizza is already in the oven and you won't have to wait another hour to get it. Of course, you have to hang around for your name to be called, but since it is usually at least a 1/2 hour wait you can walk down Ohio to Michigan and check out a shop or two. You can also sit outside and have a beer or two. The Boston Lager is excellent.

A typical Chicago topping is sausage. My favorite combo is the Numero Uno with Mozzarella, chunky tomato, sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms, onions & peppers. The Chicago Classic is good too with Extra mozzarella, extra sausage, extra tomato, extra crisp crust, but may just give you a coronary.

The pizza is excellent, but don't let your stomach do the talking. This is heavy stuff, and the recommendations are usually about right. One Small is good for 2 people. Really.

Enjoy!

From journal Summer in the Windy City

Editor Pick

Pizzeria Uno

  • April 21, 2002
  • Rated 4 of 5 by Desiree Koh from Chicago, Illinois
Somehow, a real pizza parlor doesn't feel like a real pizza parlor unless it's small, dark and cozy, with heat from the oven fires warming the pepperoni of your heart. There are too many places in Chicago claiming that they serve the original "Chicago-style pizza," and while it's hard to determine a winner, I'll go ahead and give the blue ribbon to Pizzeria Uno just because it tastes so good, in terms of pie and atmosphere (owner Ike Sewell says Uno invented the deep dish pizza in 1943). Every pie here is deep dish -- you can almost hear the graffiti scratched into the parlor's wooden tables heckling, "Get out, you wimpy thin crust pies!". The spinach and the Hawaiian (as exotic as you can get, in true Chicago grit fashion) are delish. Because these pies take up to 45 minutes to bake, make sure you give your order while standing in line (and stand in line and wait you must, such is the true-ness of this place; if you really can't wait, go across the street to sister parlor Pizzeria Due, but you won't get the same atmosphere). Accompany your pie with one of the parlor's 50 beer offerings, or douse yourself with the Captain Colada while lounging at a sidewalk table.

From journal Hot Fun In The Windy City -- Chicago

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