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If You Were Going to a Coin Show in Chicago, What Kind of Pizza Would You Get?

CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,645 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Personally, I like the Gino's deep dish - the beer flavored, corn meal crust is everything.
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  • ECHOESECHOES Posts: 2,974 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Jakes / Sausage and onion.
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  • GreeniejrGreeniejr Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭
    I can't tell you why but I am Loyal to Lou Malnati's. They have that odd crust with really delicious sweet tomatos. My favorite variety is definately spinach and mushroom. Not sure how this is coin related though...
  • dizzyfoxxdizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭
    I wouldn't, I'd get a mushroom-swiss burger or a patty melt.
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  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,377 ✭✭✭✭✭
    About 10 years ago I was in Chicago with three buddies.

    We went downtown and stopped at Uno's for a deep dish pizza. (Is it still there?)

    When we received it we weren't that impressed with the size, but I have to tell you, I could hardly lift it!!

    Talk about heavy!! It was loaded down with all the toppings you could imagine.

    After a few beers each, the four of us had a difficult time finishing it.

    It was excellent though, just extremely filling.
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  • StellaStella Posts: 717 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Having lived in the Chicago suburbs in the past and currently planning on moving back, I can definitely say that deep dish is the only way to go. You can look for a family-owned place that would be really good, or try Giordano's, Unos, Lou Malnati's, etc. for a reliably delicious pizza.

    There are several coin shows in Chicago which range from decent to successful. Which show are you referring to?
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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Jakes / Sausage and onion. >>


    Yup. I'd usually rather have thin crust than the deep dish -- especially Gino's wheel o' meat.
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,729 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Giordano's forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    TD
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  • notwilightnotwilight Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭
    I went to College in Chicago in the late 70s (U of Chicago, '80, physics) and we would always have trouble deciding between Due's and Gino's.
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  • dohdoh Posts: 6,457 ✭✭✭
    Dang it, guys, now I'm hungry. Thanks a lot!

    I like pretty much all pizza (except Dominos, I mean, seriously, terrible), but Giordano's is my favorite. Uno's is probably the most famous though.
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,729 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Dang it, guys, now I'm hungry. Thanks a lot!

    I like pretty much all pizza (except Dominos, I mean, seriously, terrible), but Giordano's is my favorite. Uno's is probably the most famous though. >>




    Ummmmmmm.......Domino's ham and pineapple.......................
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  • tmot99tmot99 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭
    Gino's is the best. I personally like the pepperoni supreme.

    My funny story about Gino's. My wife and I when we were dating went there for dinner. I place our order for the pizza and add that we would also like the garlic cheese bread. The waitress, looked at me like I had two heads and said, "We don't have garlic cheese bread. We have Cheesy Garlic Bread if that's what you would like." And she was dead serious! She was not kidding at all!
  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 9,103 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would get New York style.
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  • GreeniejrGreeniejr Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I would get New York style. >>


    Go back to New Yawk

    New York Style pizza like a big floppy donkey....... pizza
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Giordano's forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    TD >>



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    Edit: If I had to choose between the pizza at Giordano's and the coin show, the pizza would win.
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  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>(sound of Homer Simpson drooling...........) >>


    I believe that is spelled "nngnggnkgknghnhgklghlggngrhhll."

    OK, so my 12 year old daughter's favorite is homemade pizza with Trader Joe's artichoke spread instead of tomato sauce, feta cheese, and onions..
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  • NicNic Posts: 3,411 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Giordano's. I'd also get the prime rib at the Chop House ... sorry RYK. K

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  • ColonialCoinUnionColonialCoinUnion Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭
    Giordano's or Carmen's - it's a toss up for me.
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  • ECHOESECHOES Posts: 2,974 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I would get New York style. >>


    Go back to New Yawk

    New York Style pizza like a big floppy donkey....... pizza >>




    Now that is funny...
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  • itsnotjustmeitsnotjustme Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭
    Pepperoni.
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  • itsnotjustmeitsnotjustme Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭
    Note the targeted ads by google... Pizzeria Uno came up for me.
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  • ChangeInHistoryChangeInHistory Posts: 3,090 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Arenello's in Tinley Park and Glenwood (south suburbs). The deep dish cheese and pepporoni will put all others to shame.
  • DeloreanDelorean Posts: 476 ✭✭✭
    Pizzera Uno!
    Chuck,

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  • Aegis3Aegis3 Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭
    Giordano's stuffed tropical delight (Canadian bacon/pineapple). Or maybe spinach if I want to pretend that stuffed pizza can be healthy.
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    Ed. S.

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  • HalfsenseHalfsense Posts: 600 ✭✭✭
    Lou Malnatti's pizza, which you can have delivered frozen anywhere in the USA and when properly heated almost -- not quite, but almost -- tastes as good as if you were in the restaurant. However, the first place my wife and I usually go to "dine" when we infrequently return to hometown Chicago is Super Dawg, to enjoy a one-of-a-kind, custom-made hot dog available at the Super Dawg drive-in and limited dining facility on Milwaukee Avenue, just South of Devon on Chicago's Northwest side. The burgers and fries there are mighty good, too.

    -donn-
    PS: Uno's and Due's pizza, frankly, just have not been the same for decades since Ike Sewell, the founder, sold the restaurants and they "went corporate."

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  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,645 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Super Dawg has been on the Food Channel. The same guy has been running it for like 60 years.
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  • Bayard1908Bayard1908 Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭✭
    I'd probably go to Jewel and buy a frozen Home Run Inn pizza.
  • gecko109gecko109 Posts: 8,231 ✭
    Any decent self respecting South sider would recommend Vito and Nicks on Pulaski. Case closed!
  • RYKRYK Posts: 35,800 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Any decent self respecting South sider would recommend Vito and Nicks on Pulaski. Case closed! >>



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  • COINB0YCOINB0Y Posts: 4,505
    Wow! Nice thread and no one complained!

    It really is a Thanksgiving !!

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  • SeaEagleCoinsSeaEagleCoins Posts: 3,262 ✭
    Look folks...there is only one area of this country where a person can get a REAL pizza...NYC/Northern NJ...

    Everywhere else...it's just an openface grilled cheese sandwich with other stuff on it...image
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  • gecko109gecko109 Posts: 8,231 ✭


    << <i>Look folks...there is only one area of this country where a person can get a REAL pizza...NYC/Northern NJ...

    Everywhere else...it's just an openface grilled cheese sandwich with other stuff on it...image >>





    If you can fold it in half, its not pizza pal.....not sure what it is, but certainley NOT pizza!
  • SeaEagleCoinsSeaEagleCoins Posts: 3,262 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Look folks...there is only one area of this country where a person can get a REAL pizza...NYC/Northern NJ...

    Everywhere else...it's just an openface grilled cheese sandwich with other stuff on it...image >>





    If you can fold it in half, its not pizza pal.....not sure what it is, but certainley NOT pizza! >>




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  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,339 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Gino's East! (when it use to be on Superior)
    It's been ages but I have to to say....best pie that I ever had, bar none.

    Ray

  • ILikeMercsILikeMercs Posts: 1,392 ✭


    << <i>Giordano's forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    TD >>



    I went there in my youth.........63rd and California behind a bar. They had a BYOB rule and we'd go there in the winter and drink. Then they moved west down 63rd and the rest is history. I wouldn't call Giordano's the best though. Too many mom and pop places are way better than those crappy chains that forgot how to be down home. Anyone know if Talmans Pizza on 51 st and Talman is still around? Best...Pizza....EVER!
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  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,339 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Giordano's forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    TD >>



    I went there in my youth.........63rd and California behind a bar. They had a BYOB rule and we'd go there in the winter and drink. Then they moved west down 63rd and the rest is history. >>



    Giordano's is pretty much everywhere in the Chicagoland area.

    Did your location move to Detroit?

    Ray
  • ILikeMercsILikeMercs Posts: 1,392 ✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>Giordano's forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    TD >>



    I went there in my youth.........63rd and California behind a bar. They had a BYOB rule and we'd go there in the winter and drink. Then they moved west down 63rd and the rest is history. >>



    Giordano's is pretty much everywhere in the Chicagoland area.

    Did your location move to Detroit?

    Ray >>



    63rd and Cal was the original one. The neighborhood is like Detroit nowadays.
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  • illini420illini420 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I grew up in the Chicago area and if you want the traditional deep dish then you can't go wrong with either Gino's East or Malnati's.

    However, if you want something special that you can't get anywhere else, head over to the Chicago Pizza & Oven Grinder Company and get the famous Pizza Pot Pie!!!

    Pizza Pot Pie

    mmmmmmm, image

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  • agentjim007agentjim007 Posts: 6,256 ✭
    I'd probably go to Jewel and buy a frozen Home Run Inn pizza.

    The best frozen pizza but much better to go to the restaurant.
  • darktonedarktone Posts: 8,437 ✭✭✭
    If you change your mind about pizza- try this place. Texas de Brazil
  • ozzyfan269ozzyfan269 Posts: 1,002
    You guys wanna take this thread to the "Morons talking about food not coins" forum please?

    LOL

    But seriously, what coins show are you going to? I heard most of the coin shows suck in Chicago!
  • CaseyCasey Posts: 1,502 ✭✭
    1) Gino's East
    2) Lou Malnati's
  • CoinosaurusCoinosaurus Posts: 9,645 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Gino's East! (when it use to be on Superior)
    It's been ages but I have to to say....best pie that I ever had, bar none.

    Ray >>



    I am still so depressed that the Superior location closed. There was nothing like it. I used to go there in college all the time.
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,729 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Look folks...there is only one area of this country where a person can get a REAL pizza...NYC/Northern NJ...

    Everywhere else...it's just an openface grilled cheese sandwich with other stuff on it...image >>





    If you can fold it in half, its not pizza pal.....not sure what it is, but certainley NOT pizza! >>



    It's called codboard..........
    TD
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  • options26options26 Posts: 1,431
    Being from a suburb of Chicago, I must say:

    Deep Dish - Either Uno's or Due's downtown, same owners and 2 blocks apart.
    Thin Crust - Beggars or Phil's in Oak Lawn.

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  • bestdaybestday Posts: 4,242 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Giordano's forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    TD >>



    Giordanos now , is nothing like it was in '80s..now a run of the mill chain store pizza ..TRY Connies'
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
    codboard image

    A classic dish.

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  • JeremyDie1JeremyDie1 Posts: 2,383 ✭✭✭


    << <i>1) Gino's East
    2) Lou Malnati's >>



    1)Lou Malnati's
    2) Gino's East

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  • mrearlygoldmrearlygold Posts: 17,858 ✭✭✭
    What kind of pizza ....in Chicago?

    I'd call any pizza place in NJ and have it fedexed .

    Pizza, in Chicago image

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  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,893 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Look folks...there is only one area of this country where a person can get a REAL pizza...NYC/Northern NJ...

    Everywhere else...it's just an openface grilled cheese sandwich with other stuff on it...image >>

    Thank you! I was beginning to worry about the culinary tastes of this forum. I may live in CA now but the only two worth mention is Chicago (NGC) and NYC (PCGS). Sorry, I felt compelled to tie this thread to coins.
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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,729 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Being from a suburb of Chicago, I must say:

    Deep Dish - Either Uno's or Due's downtown, same owners and 2 blocks apart.
    Thin Crust - Beggars or Phil's in Oak Lawn. >>



    Beggars was OK when it was just the tiny place in the converted gas station at 127th and Western, but success has dimished them, IMHO.
    We used to go to Palermo's in Oak Lawn. How is it now?
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