Pizza 10 Ways in Chicago

One of Chicago's favorites for deep-dish pizza and consistently wins awards from newspapers and food blogs. Their crust, the recipe for which is a closely guarded … secret, is flaky and buttery, while their sauce is extra thick. The best-seller here is the Rudy's Special, a pizza topped with copious amounts of cheese, Italian sausage, green onions, and mushrooms. [link]

For those out-of-state or who want to heat up their pie at home, legendary Malnatis Pizza have their pizza available in frozen form. It has a cultish mail-order … following, and many regulars will take a frozen pie every when they don't feel like leaving the house for excellent deep dish. [link]

Greek-style pizza is extremely crispy with a flat crust and an excessive amount of tomato sauce. In Chicago, the best place to go for this is Marie's Pizza and … Liquors, run and patronized by Greeks. They cut their pizza up into teeny delicious squares. [link]

The famous chain got its start in Chicago and was the first deep-dish place in the city. It was founded in 1943 by former football star Ike Sewell and expanded to … a second location (Pizzeria Due) 12 years later. Though the chain is a giant nationally, only four locations exist in Chicagoland. [link]

The small neighborhood place serves dairy-only pizzas with a variety of toppings in addition to a full menu of salads, sandwiches, and hot entrees. Most are New … York style, but they also serve deep dish. The regular menu is a fusion of different cuisines, including Israeli and Latin influences. [link]

Known as one of the few places in Chicago serving excellent New York style pizza, Café Luigi's pies are mostly thin with wide and foldable slices. They also … serve deep dish and stuffed crust, but people really come here for the thin stuff. [link]

We've posted about this place before because we think it's so funny. First, they serve thin-crust pizza in Chicago, which isn't exactly common. Secondly, they are not Italian themed; rather, the bar is covered in Irish flags, photos, and memorabilia. They even have inflatable leprechauns at the door. Lastly, when our correspondent went, … the restaurant hosted a band of Scottish bag pipe players in kilts. [link]

Nancy's Pizza invented the Chicago staple of stuffed pizza. The owners created the pizza from a recipe for scarciedda, a special Easter pie. The crust is super … deep, and the cheese is cooked under the tomato sauce [link]

Eating thin-crust pizza is not the Chicago taboo it once was, and more and more thin-crust joints are popping up in the Windy City. In fact, there's now even a … classification of pizza called "Chicago thin crust," which means the flat pizza is cut into small squares (a la Greek style). The pizzas at Spacca Napoliare are crunchy, light as air, and topped with super-fresh ingredients. [link]

Though this could have since been discontinued, it was reported that right as the foie gras ban went into place in Chicago, Connie's started serving foie gras … pizza. Don't expect it to be a permanent menu item, but go now to see if you can still get it. Ask for it casually, and maybe pass a twenty over the counter, just to heighten the excitement. [link]

One of the most original pizza joints in Chicago, Chicago Pizza and Over Grinder serves pizza upside down in a bowl with hollowed-out bread -- the "pizza pot … pie." The wait is usually in the one-hour range, and the proprietor doesn't take names. He simply says, "I'll remember your face," and he manages to do it every time. [link]