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This is great deep dish pizza- a must to stop for. No reservations are made and expect a waiting line but worth the wait. A must to eat at when in Chicago.
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Sorry, but as a native Chicagoan, I never go to or recommend Pizzaria Uno.
No matter how much Uno's corporate management begs to differ, the pizza is not the same as it was 20, 30 years ago. The recipe has changed and the quality has gone down - especialy the crust and freshness of many of the ingredients. Uno's is a place for tourists who think that Chicagoans eat nothing but deep-disch pizza. I'd put any local, neighborhood pizza place ahead of Uno's. You want some suggestions? Try D'Agostino's, or Giordano's. And try an Chicago-style thin-crust pizza (square-cut!!). A few more tips: sausage is the top ingredient in a Chicago pizza - and not the pre-cooked kind. No one in Chicago ever, ever calls it a pizza "pie" - it's just a "pizza", plain and simple - you want a "pie" then head on over to Baker's Square. If you walk into any place passing themselves off as a "Chicago pizzaria" yet offers ingredients like broccoli, tuna, bean sprouts, salmon, nuts, BBQ beef, "pork toppings" (instead of real Itlaian sausage), fruit or "New York-style" pizza, immediately leave - you're not in a real Chicago pizzaria. Telling people to go to Pizzaria Uno for a "ral Chicago pizza" is like telling a tourist to Mexico City to eat at Taco Bell. |
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The native Chicagoans we had with us - pointed us here and all 10 in the party raved about it--and they are tough to please---still recommend it.
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Goodness, I agree with the second gentleman, Uno's hardly represents Chicago pizza. If I hear one more time about Chicagoians preference for deep dish pizza I will hollar. Deep dish may have originated here, yes, but the majority of us just love regular pizza. BTW Unos has really gone down hill over the years, its a shame because they used to have a really great pizza!
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Hey, I have to tell you - as a native Chicago guy who's been eating pizza weekly and it's local variations (sometimes scary) on every continent on the planet for the last 40 years - Uno's is some very, VERY good pizza.
It's a nice change from the plethora of neighborhood thin crust joints. The neighborhood joints are good....but the taste of a GREAT BIG SLICE of Uno's is always a treat. Previous dude was right - sausage or pepperoni are the only things that should be allowed on top of a pizza - besides more cheese. BTW...I toured the kitchen at Uno's recently, and they do use fresh family recipe sausage, and it rocks! Can't say I'd want to eat it every day - I'd be too big to fit in the cockpit, but believe me...it is GOOD EATING! Be prepared for a 45 minute - 1 hour wait anytime after 4pm, but don't wimp out, it's definetly worth the wait!! |
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It's an unfortunate thing that the city of Chicago is presented to the rest of the world through very bad and poor quality representatives. There are Pizzaria Uno locations across the globe, but Uno's is one of the worst examples of quality Chicago pizza. If you wanted the best cheeseburger in Chicago, would you go to McDonald's??? Well, Pizzaria Uno is the "McDonald's" of Chicago deep-dish pizza. Yeah, a lot of people go there and enjoy it, but it's nowhere near the best.
The reason so many visitors to Chicago go to Pizzaria Uno is because that's the only exposure they've had in their own countries/states to Chicago-style pizza. They've never experienced other, better Chicago pizza places. It's like how Chicago music is represented to the world... THE BLUES BROTHERS everywhere!!! Chicago even had a rip-off Blues Brothers band as part of it's presentation for the 2016 Olympics bid. Our other top music is the song "Chicago", usually sung by Frank Sinatra, that was written around 1905.... "I saw a man, he danced with his wife.." com'on!! Again, the quality of Pizzaria Uno pizza is way down from what it was 20-30 years ago. There are hundreds of better pizza joints in the Chicago area. |
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