When the "mood for Chicago-style pizza" strikes, this locally grown chain is an "excellent standby", delivering "on-point" deep-dish pies, including especially "great stuffed" versions; a "nice selection" of "traditional" Italian dishes like pastas and parms rounds out the menu, and while some locales offer craft brews, sangria and cocktails, others are BYOB.
Giordano's Restaurant Restaurant Review:
There is as much controversy in Chicago over who originated stuffed pizza as there is about the latest political brouhaha. Suffice it to say, Giordano's got rolling back in 1974, and for a long time the only pizza it made (and some say brought to perfection) was stuffed. Today, the chain has dozens of locations and also serves thin-crust pizza, but it isn't half as interesting as the stuffed...
A Chicago classic, this pizzeria near the Mag Mile is as beloved among tourists as locals.:
Parmesan and crushed red pepper shakers top red- and-white checked, vinyl-clothed tables at this ultra-casual, tile-floored pizzeria with hauntingly good, relentlessly filling deep-dish pies....