What is this "pizza" you speak of?

[Prussian to the Iron]

pizza, in my definition, is anything that meets all the following qualifications:

1. has some form of crust
2. has tomato sauce underneath some form of cheese
3. is NY-style mofos!

[ajaxfetish]

I now invoke the blessings of all the dark gods as I command this thread ... to live!!!

Ahem.

So, I'll be picking up my little sister from the airport in Chicago later this month, and I want to take the chance to experience a real Chicago pizza. So the question is, where do I go? Who'all make the best deep-dish pizzas in the Windy City? (and are any of them compatible with a grad student budget?) I've noted down Carmen's, as recommended by Lemur in the OP. Is this the place to go, or should I be heading somewhere else?

Ajax

[Lemur]

So the question is, where do I go? Who'all make the best deep-dish pizzas in the Windy City?

My Chicago pizza info is seriously out of date, but if you're willing to accept decade old recommends:

Carmen's for the stuffed spinach.
Giordano's for meat lovers.
Gino's East for the full tourist experience. (Great atmosphere, dive-joint taken to a fine art)

[rajpoot]

Every time I see a food thread like this I feel so depressed.
It must be worth living in America just for the fast food. I'd kill for that stuffed pizza.

(Great atmosphere, dive-joint taken to a fine art)

I've heard this term elsewhere too. What's a 'dive-joint' supposed to be?

[Fragony]

Every time I see a food thread like this I feel so depressed.
It must be worth living in America just for the fast food. I'd kill for that stuffed pizza.



I've heard this term elsewhere too. What's a 'dive-joint' supposed to be?

You live in India, the greatest cuisine in the world! I could eat curry or tandori every day without getting bored of it. You can make a pan pizza yourself, you don't need any special equipment just an oven and a thick pan, it's really easy you can find plenty of recepies on the web

[rajpoot]

You live in India, the greatest cuisine in the world! I could eat curry or tandori every day without getting bored of it.

I've been eating that stuff since years and while I'm certainly not bored, but Western fast food has a special place in my heart tummy.....

You can make a pan pizza yourself, you don't need any special equipment just an oven and a thick pan, it's really easy you can find plenty of recepies on the web

It's just not the same.
I mean sure I can get all the ingrediants and I can make a thick/thin crust pizza from scratch but the stuff they make in restaurants always tastes different. And no place here, or even in Delhi makes pizzas like that.

[Fragony]

It's just not the same.
I mean sure I can get all the ingrediants and I can make a thick/thin crust pizza from scratch but the stuff they make in retraunts always tastes different. And no place here, or even in Delhi makes pizzas like that.

Oh neither do they here, I am pretty desperate for a real American restaurant here, I am surprised there isn't any realy as it would run like crazy if they get it right. Only steakhouses.

[HopAlongBunny]

You live in India, the greatest cuisine in the world!

You'll be healthier and happier sticking to the best food in the world :)

[Lemur]

I've heard this term elsewhere too. What's a 'dive-joint' supposed to be?

"Dive joint" or "dive" usually means an informal, unclean, lower-class kinda place. In the case of Gino's East, they take it to an interesting conclusion. Guests are encouraged to write or carve on the walls and booths, the entire place is dark with dark wood furniture and walls. So even though it presents a kinda rough look, it's actually fun. And the food is very good. So that is the sense in which I was using the term "dive joint."

[ajaxfetish]

My Chicago pizza info is seriously out of date, but if you're willing to accept decade old recommends:

Carmen's for the stuffed spinach.
Giordano's for meat lovers.
Gino's East for the full tourist experience. (Great atmosphere, dive-joint taken to a fine art)

Ajax