Chicago:
1. Pizzeria Uno- Boys and girls, the best damn pizza in Chicago is made by a Longhorn! Ike Sewell, an All S'west Conf. football stud, introduced the deep dish pizza that made Chicago famous years ago. I just got back from a week's vacation in Chi-town and I got a big laugh and swelled with pride when I read the story of Ike Sewell and the "Chicago" deep dish pizza. Mr. Sewell was a baller and a businessman deluxe. The Uno chain was brought to Texas but I think it has closed down now. However, the original on Ohio Street in Chicago and its sister site, Pizzeria Due, just up the street, remain Chicago institutions. You gotta love that the best damn pizza Chicagoans brag about was introduced by a Longhorn. The pizza at the original Uno is perfection. Many claim that it has been surpassed by Gino's East, but I don't hold that opinion.
2. Gino's East
St. Louis:
1. Imo's
Dallas:
1. Louie's
2. Sal's
3. Campisi's
4. Pizza Paradise - Dudes, this was the stuff of dreams. Right in my childhood neighborHOOD.But one night a heartless and gutless SOB gunned down Pops, the owner, and broke all our hearts, too. I still remember going there with a huge grin and bigger appetite only to find a wreath and a note scrawled on a pizza box with a Carter's permanent marker telling us what happened the night before and thanking us for supporting the family and its business through the years. I would gun down the son of a ***** that did that to that old man and his family if I could find him today. A crying shame. This will always be my #1. Pops was a nice old man that could barely make it to the back of the counter. But once he was back there, it was pure magic. By the way, back then the older kids would talk about a garage guitar magician named Stevie Ray. The rest of us would sit on our bikes all wide-eyed and down our pizza as we listened. That was the next best thing to riding to the gravel pit behind the football field to watch pissed off high schoolers setlle their differences. Damn, Oak Cliff was the place to be.
Austin:
1. Conan - Do they still say "Conan's closes at 11" around closing time? My wife and I still chuckle at that.
2. Milto's - I wooed the wife- at the time my girlfriend- at Milto's.