Chicago’s Best Pizza: Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Company

All episode long we've been fighting to see who has the

best

pizza

in Chicago. We've been from Warrenville to Roscoe Village to fight over the

best

deep dish and thin crust ever, but I'm tired of fighting and I think I have the perfect place to bury that. In the last six years we've done almost 200 episodes and visited almost 1,000 restaurants. and there's one place you guys have been dying for us to visit since the beginning and it's Chicago's

pizza

institution and the perfect spot. place to end this show we are in Lincoln Park at Chicago Pizza and Alvan Grinders Company let's do this Elliot is already running around here you are very easy going and you love to have a good time I know I'm a little scared well we We're here to get Let's get to work, okay, this is my first time at Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder.

Incredible, we had just left university and it was our first job. My Stud Diamond Chicago Baby 1978 28 years ago, maybe how many people can tell a story. the first time they went to a restaurant that's the kind of love there is in this place it was sad, we have been here since 1972 and we are in our third generation, so the people who had their first dates here will now bring their grandchildren to this episode. it's about pizza but you guys really do it differently why Chicago Rises Chicago pizza and

oven

says it's not deep dish it's not thin crust it's our little creation we've taken two of the best meals comforting, a cake and a pizza, and we have combined it.

I'm from Australia and I've never had anything like this. It is something really different, once in a lifetime and there is no other city that has an ICU. I go back to the kitchen and leave it. We'll find Elliot around here somewhere after that. It's okay to do the classic Miss Chicago. First we start with the cheese. This is kind of like the opposite of a regular pizza, so it's upside down, but then we'll flip it over so we get the crust. At the bottom the cheese will be at the top ah, we put whole mushrooms and we add a very special sauce.

Our sauce is a recipe we have been using since 1972. We put cooked onions, green peppers, tomatoes, garlic and simmer for eight. hours it smells fantastic cut with triple Ray's Sicilian style dough and we're ready for the

oven

Oh Angie, isn't it adorable, almost too cute to eat, but I'll do it. Elliot's been having too much fun with your clients, so I'm going to go see what he's up to and then we're going to eat groovy. You know, the show he watched, did it bother you that we haven't been here in the past? You were disappointed, that seemed like a fake laugh to me.

I have the app I didn't want to tell you that's the truth, you can be honest maybe a little, but the fact that you guys know now Wow, I'm so hungry you don't understand, I can't wait to eat, that's so good. so unique, oh my gosh, so Chicago gooey and cheesy, buttery, crunchy, juicy, it's beautiful, it's great, I love it, dynamite, you need that sauce on anything but the crust, excellent, I mean, it's an institution , that's why people gravitate to this place. I'm glad I could. to come together, that's the moment, agree on whether it's a deep dish of thin crust or something unique like this.

Chicago is absolutely the best. Chicago is pizza city when it comes to pizza in Chicago. I have my own pizza that Kylie down the road I'm making. I'm a guy you're going to find