Deep Dish Pizza

[lostman]

Watching Pizza Paradise - did not know that my absolute most fave DD pizza (Pizzeria Uno in Chicago) was started by Ike Sewell, a UT football star. [Dana Carvey imitating Johhny Carson "I did not know that!"]

 

[general35]

the original uno's is good, so is lou malnati's and bacino's (my fav)

 

[hornyhoosier]

I'm a Giordano's fan myself.

 

[THEU]

while not true deep dish, I believe Buffo's up in Highwood has the best pizza in the Chicagoland area. Their double decker pizza is fantastic.

 

[horninchicago]

Wabash Street in Chicago in the 500 block is named "Ike Sewell Way".

My wife was always proud of the Chicago deep dish pizza. She was quite surprised to know it was invented by Texas Longhorn All-American.

We prefer Giordano's as well, but we like Uno, too.

 

[ProdigalHorn]

Man, I need to go to Chicago.

I read one one of those unhealthy food articles that the Pizzeria Uno pizza for one was like the most unhealthy lunch item in America or something - like two weeks worth of fat and something like 4000 calories. It made me love it all the more...

Anyone remember Pantera's? It was a deep dish chain in Austin when I was growing up, I even worked there for a while. Fantastic stuff - too bad it went under!

 

[general35]

i dont remember pantera. i lived right around the corner from mangia. it was ok.

 

[Bye Week]

Only been to Chicago once. Colleague of mine took me to Gino's East and it was good. To all of you who are from Chicago or go there often, how does that compare to the places you are talking about? Next time I go (July) I'll have time to hit 2 or 3 and want to be as efficient as possible in my selection....

 

[Longhorny630]

It's all good to me. I even like the store bought frozen Gino's deep dishes, so maybe I'm not the person to ask cause I love it all. Uno's does have a good lunch special though, individual sized pizza and everything relatively cheap.

 

[scottsins]

I've had both Gino's East and Giordano's several times. Giordano's wins hands down for me, due to the more buttery, flaky nature of the crust there.

 

[hornyhoosier]

FYI for all those who have experienced the greatness that is Giordano's...

You can order them online:
The Link

A little pricey with the overnight shipping, but how can you put a price on a slice of heaven?

 

[Basketball Jones]

Yeah -- I remember Pantera's from the mid-80s. It was a place -- what happened to it?

 

[ProdigalHorn]

It went bankrupt. Don't really know why, but I would imagine bad management. It certainly wasn't that we didn't have business, because we stayed pretty busy. But they had about six locations, including one in San Marcos, and my sense is they may have just been spread too thin too quickly.

I thought it was the best pizza in Austin at the time.

 

[uisge beatha]

For me, the order of preference would be Giordanos, Unos, Ginos, and Lou Minaltas (sp?)

Prodigal, I remember seeing that list also where it was in some top 10 list a few months ago. Yep, made me miss it. fortunately, I just found out a few weeks ago that there's 2 Giordano's in the Orlando area - just an hour or so drive away ...

 

[horninchicago]

Scottsins that is a great description of the Giordano's crust.

We have been to Lou Malnati's. Didn't care for it, but it is very popular. Lou's father, Rudy, worked at Uno for Ike Sewell and he claimed to have come up with the idea of a deep dish pizza. Who knows...

It's their barbecue around here. Texas has barbecue and great Tex-Mex. Chicago has pizza...and hot dogs.

I'll take Texas any day.

 

[ImissWallyPryor]

I've been to the original Pizzaria Uno a number of times over the past 25 years, and it's still my favorite. A few years ago, my family went to Chicago to start a vacation. We hit Uno's, the original Gino's East and Giordano's (not the original, but one just North of downtown) in the span of a little over a week. I'd been to the others in the past as well. My family was pretty much in agreement that Uno's was best, Giordano's was a close second, and Gino's East was third.

If you enjoy other people's misery, tell a Chicago native that if it wasn't for Texas football, there would be no Chicago deep dish pizza. They'll start back-peddling about how they really like Gino's East better, blah, blah blah. Ike Sewell might've never gotten off the farm if it weren't for football.

 

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[ImissWallyPryor]

Conan's was pretty good back in the 70s. Of course, I was in high school, so just about any pizza tasted better than it probably was.

 

[ProdigalHorn]

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[orangecat]

wow, Pantera's!!!, yummm, good!!

I ate at the one in San Marcos. The best pizza in San Marcos, no doubt. We had a guy in our youth group that worked there, so he got a good discount. The best pizza was called a Pantera's Panhandler, had a lot of everything on that pizza.

don't know if they overlapped or not, but in the early 90s, the best food in San Marcos was Woody's Bar-B-Que, and the 2nd best was Pantera's.

Woody's was outside of town, had a daily special. Wednesday was all-you-can eat fajitas, and Friday was all you can eat beef ribs.

These ribs were huge!!!, I usually ate 6 of them, sometimes 9.

And his fixin's were pretty good too. (pretty sure he bought his fixins but they were good)

 

[Horns11]

Ditto on the Chicagoans... they'll tell you that Lou Malnati's, Gino's East, and Giordano's are all miles ahead of UNO, but I still prefer the flavor of UNO to the rest of them.

My wife's parents got engaged at the original Gino's East, so she has a soft spot in her heart for it. I think their crust tastes like sawdust.

Giordano's stuffed pizza is awesome, but I'll still take UNO's buttery crust over anything else.

 

[ImissWallyPryor]

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