Chicago’s Best Deep Dish Pizza

Nick Kindelsperger examined Chicago’s offerings for deep dish pizza (he likes Burt’s Place).

What is the best deep dish pizza in Chicagoland? Easy: Bill’s Pub in Mundelein.

The only problem with such an open definition of deep dish was that this left me with an incredible number of options. Plus, this isn’t the kind of pizza that you can casually graze upon over the course of an evening. This is truly filling food, which also takes a decent amount of time to cook. While some Neapolitan pies only need a couple minutes in a hot oven, cooking times for deep dish and stuffed are often in the 30-to-45-minute range.

I sampled all the pizzerias I thought had a chance at taking the top spot. Pretty much every big name spot is here, along with some suggestions from an open thread post and a few from my own research.

• Art of Pizza
• Bacino’s
• Bartoli’s
• Burt’s Place
• Edwardo’s
• Gino’s East
• Giordano’s
• Lou Malnati’s
• Louisa’s
• My Pie
• Pizano’s
• Pizzeria Uno
• Tortorice’s