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Yeah, Giordano's is a Chicago legend. Yeah, I need to always take out-of-towners here. Yeah, I don't really like deep dish or stuffed pizza much. Yeah, I need to always announce to them that Giordano's is NOT deep dish, but rather stuffed pizza, another Chicago classic.
That being said, i much prefer this location of Giordano's to the one in River North. This one's service is way better and the seating is more spacious!
Remember to pre-order though so that your pizza is ready by the time you get a seat!
BF loves Giordano's. Being lactose intolerant, I figured I would indulge his love of deep-dish pizza while settling for a salad or sandwich.
However...I decided to ask if I could get a pizza without the cheese, and the answer was surprisingly yes!
Maybe it's not the same without the cheese, but it's not like I would know the difference. I ordered mushrooms, so they put them in the layer where the cheese would have been.
I really liked it! I had the house salad while we waited the 40 minutes for the pizza to be ready. It was very fresh and the balsamic vinaigrette was flavorful.
We came back for lunch a few days later and got the individual-size stuffed pizzas. Definitely a great deal, and you can call in your order ahead of time so you won't have to wait once you arrive.
Lactose-intolerant pizza lovers rejoice!
Went on a busy Friday night. The wait was about 45 minutes. Not too bad and well worth it.
The pizza was soooo goooood. Had the spinach pizza. Barely ate half of the pizza, because it was so filling.
Great experience!
I'm not much of a critic of Chicago deep dish pizza at this point as I've only tried it once in my life and Giordano's had the pleasure of popping my cherry.
The wait is LONG but well worth it. You can order drinks and apps at the bar while you're called which is great if you can fit in...
The Service is decent. Don't expect the pizza to come out as quick as a brooklyn-style will, but believe me it's well worth it. (see pics)
Will definitely return for some more when back in Chi-town!
The BEST deep dish pizza I've ever had, without a doubt. I know Giordano's gets labled as a tourist-y restraunt, but I am a Chicago native and no deep dish pizza will ever beat Giordano's for me (except maybe my mom's homemade deep dish). Nothing compares to walking blocks on a cold winter night and swooping in the revolving door with a blast of warm air and the delicious aroma of pizza.
If you hate long waits, call in and order ahead of time or preorder and head to the bar. It takes nearly a half-hour to make your pizza if you're ordering a deep dish, never mind the long wait for a table. But it will all be worth it the minute you take that first cheesy bite. Every time I have visitors to the city, I always take them to Giordano's to have their lives changed, and they always leave happy.
I don't eat pizza typically, but this place is awesome.
give your self an hour to eat here, because it will take 40 min for them to cook your pizza.
best pizza ever.
So happy we stumbled upon this place. After walking around the Art Institute all morning we found ourselves starved and in the mood for authentic Chicago deep dish pizza. We asked a random guy on the side of the road where the nearest place was, and all he had to say was "Giordano's."
We arrived around 3pm on a Thursday and got a table right away. Though the service itself was a little slow, we didn't mind as we were eating with an old friend and had much discussion to catch up on anyway. We ordered a large deep dish, stuffed crust 1/2 cheese, 1/2 sausage pizza. Some soda and bread held us over as we waited nearly an hour for our food to arrive, but the relaxed and very visually interesting decor of the restaurant, in addition to it's cleanliness and nice wait staff, made the wait worth it.
The pizza itself is what dreams are made of. Hot, juicy, thick... mmm. We ate it up and even had some left over (that we later tried to give to a homeless person who refused - really?). It made for an EXCELLENT breakfast the next morning and a great memory of our time in Chicago.
WOW! Best pizza I have ever had in my life!
We were told that we could pre-order our pizza while we waited in line but since we were not in a hurry we decided not to.
35 minutes from order to serve - well worth the wait. Small 10" is plenty for 4 regular eaters. Delicious tall, crispy biscuit crust and very very cheesy.
Beer was cheap enough but I really wish they served Guinness.
The waitstaff was fast and friendly. This place is super clean- not a speck of ick.
I held back one star because the womens bathroom, although clean was tiny, beat up and falling apart. They certainly seemed to get enough traffic $ to fix that problem.
I love that Giordano's is open so late but the service was pretty slow. I also don't get why we had to wait 20+ minutes to be seated when the place is huge and there were plenty of open tables.
On to the food.. I'm still debating whether it was a mistake to get that artichoke dip because although it was totally mediocre and left me with less room for that MASSIVE deep dish pizza, it took sooo long to get the food that I absolutely needed something to munch on. Anyway, the pizza actually did have really good quality ingredients but there was SO much cheese. I love deep dish pizza but omg I'm talking several inches of cheese. I literally could have had a heart attack on the spot at this place. The crust was delish though. Honestly I wanted to throw up after eating there but now I'm craving the madness all over again.
Anyway, this is a good place to go if you're feeling absolutely gluttonous and are prepared for a potential upset stomach later on in the night (unless you've actually developed tolerance for eating several pounds of cheese at a time). Just prepare to wait a long time for the pizza to cook and don't waste your money on any appetizers.
After brushing off the remnants of Tropical Storm Danny, our crew landed us in Chicago a couple of hours before midnight. However, the relatively short night would not place a damper on my planned stuffed crust pizza excursion. Indeed, a couple of weeks ago, super Yelper Andrew W. was nice enough to provide me with a week old slice of Giordano's pizza. I greedily accepted the offering knowing full well that I was going to repeat the experience in Chicago. Why? Much like sugar in a properly sweetened iced tea, one's stomach can never be too saturated with Chicago's best stuffed crust pizza.
SG warned me that the Giordano's in his neighborhood was closed. I laughed off this feeble attempt to thwart my mission. A few phone calls later, SG and I were happily driving to the edge of Greek Town to pick up not only BG but also the greatest pizza on God's green earth (or blue, or red, or indigo for that matter). We placed our order, and we headed to a nearby bar. The friendly bartender was yapping outside to one of his friends about the poor friend's penchant for going home with horrificly unattractive women (I won't go into detail, but he did). I briefly considered unleasing my own friend's "opossums" story (PM me for the greatest hook-up story of all time), but decided to stay low-key. We finished up our 312 beers, and we headed back to finish our mission.
Let it be known that the best Giordano's order is simply the cheese pizza. Somehow, Giordano's manages to load an impossible amount of cheese on top of a surprisingly thin bottom. The pizza is majestically tall and each bite contains a pleasing amount of flavorful tomato to complement the mound of cheese. While competitors and "stuffed crust" places across the country fail poorly in their quest to match Giordano's in taste, it should be mentioned that they fail from an architectural standpoint as well. I have never seen a thicker, taller crust in the United States than what one finds at the pizza equivalent to Mecca. And even that isn't a fair description of what encapsulates the Giordano's experience.
Quite simply, Giordano's is the best pizza I have tried in the world (including Europe), and I doubt that will change in my lifetime. Some people might call that hyperbole or useless conjecture, but I challenge anyone to show me a better pizza. To this day, it hasn't even been close. Come to Mecca. Come to Giordano's.
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Giordano's has the best deep dish pizza in Chicago. Eating it is an adventure. Know that it takes a while for them to make these pizzas, as they are incredibly deep, robust pies.
Also know that you can't eat as much of it as you think you can. Down here in the South, I can polish off a whole frozen Dijourno's by myself, but I honestly can't eat more than two or three slices of a small pizza at Giordano's... three is pushing it.
The drink list is decent. There is Guinness.
This particular Giordano's has times when it is so busy that it's worth finding another location, but in general the wait times are bearable. Always worth it.
MMMMmmmmmm DEEP DISH.
So everyone has been telling me that if I go to Chicago my trip would not be complete without a slice or two of deep dish pizza. So we heard this place was the best, and this one was literally across the street from our hotel! We ended up going twice! Once for pizza, and once to pick up dessert to go to eat in our hotel room! Their slices of cake are HUGE btw and if you actually think you will have room for dessert after you eat pizza here, then well....you must have really clogged arteries. Because their deep dish here is seriously deep dish. My brother who eats a ton had trouble eating two slices here, and I had to cut my second piece in half! We couldn't finish a small supreme deep dish to save our lives. So we brought it back to our room and ate it for breakfast the next morning! ha ha And it was almost as good then as it was when we got it!!
So why only three stars? The pizza itself deserves 4 stars, but our service was well...almost nonexistent. We ordered a pitcher of beer and almost never got it, and nothing was comped on our bill. And our deep dish took SO SO LONG to come out of the oven. I think that our waiter forgot to put our order in, hence the long long wait for beer and the long long wait for our pizza. I know perfection takes time, and that pizza, with the mounds and mounds of cheese and sausage and peppers and onions and pepperoni was simply phenomenal! But our waiter giving us no beer even while we were waiting just sort of ruined the pizza waiting moment for us......hence the star lost....
My family "popped" into town from Texas. Since they were coming in from the Millennium Park train station, I found this tiny Giordano's on Yelp! Who knew that this tiny location even existed?
The hostess was super accommodating to our group that grew in size and was then 20 minutes late. Our pizzas took awhile but that is deep dish for ya. I wish that they would have come around to ask us about dessert a bit earlier: I always make my nieces and nephew get some delish cheesecake while they are in town. When they brought it out, I had to ask for the check immediately so that they wouldn't miss their train.
I would definitely come back!
I finally got to taste Giordano's pizza. After having tried Lou Malnati's, Gino's East, and Pizzeria Uno for deep dish and being disappointed, I almost gave up. But several people told me that they liked Giordano's, so I decided to give it a try. My best friend from high school was in town, so I had the perfect reason to go.
We ordered a small, half spinach, half beef pizza. The toppings (or fillings, rather) didn't have much flavor, but the cheese was pretty good. I also liked the crust, which was salty, chewy on the inside and crispy on the outside, without being greasy. The small is more than enough food for three people.
While I still like Zachary's in Berkeley better, if I'm going to eat deep dish, I think Giordano's should be your tourist destination if you're going to try deep dish in downtown Chicago.
Sorry Chicagoans, I too was a bit disappointed by Giordano's. Maybe my expectations were too high?
It was definitely a really good pizza--don't get me wrong. I like deep dish, stuffed, thin crust, brick-oven, you name it, so no, I'm not a pizza snob. I guess I wanted to be blown away, and this just didn't do it.
I got the "Special" with green peppers, mushrooms and sausage. The cheeze was amazing, the crust was clean but a little underflavored. The sauce on top was not quite tomato-ey enough, but portions are bountiful. I tried tackling a 10-incher by myself and was proud of myself for even getting to half of it. (pizza-by-the-slice isn't an option during dinner hours).
I'm definitely a fan of Zachary's Pizza in Oakland, CA. Maybe I'll check out Lou Malnati's next time I'm back in the Windy City.
The pizza at Giordano's is very good. Deep dish is the only way to go. They should remove thin crust from the menu to force all customers to choose deep dish.
We went here last Sunday with a group of 17. Initially the wait seemed insurmountable, but they encourage you to submit your pizza order while you are waiting so your ZA can be ready when you are seated. I think it only took us 50 minutes to be seated. Then we still waited another 40 minutes or so for the pizzas. But the pizza was great. I wish I were eating it right now. We ordered the spinach pizza (which I didn't try, but it received many thumbs up from my party), the special or supreme (which I did try and it was excellent), the pepperoni (which was also delish) and cheese (which had to be good, its a deep dish of cheese and sauce).
The fact that this place received 4 stars and we waited over an hour and a half to have our first bite of ZA says enough.
BTW, what is up with all the revolving doors in Chicago. They just upset me. Its like those metering lights to get on the highway, but for a restaurant. Just weird, especially when you pack 20 people in a waiting room just beyond the revolving deathtrap.
This pizza is to die for!! Deep dish like no where else!
Now that I moved away from Chicago I miss this pizza so much and can't find anything like it!!
I might have to get some shipped out here! =)
It is very filling and does take a while to cook but its worth the wait! (they are baking this pizza its like a cake)
It can hit the spot with friends and family, everyone needs to try it!
My first trip to Chicago. I was in town for less than 24 hours in February, and was staying with a friend's sister. The plane touched down pretty late in the afternoon, so we only had time for one meal. "What do you want to eat?" she asks when she picks me up at the airport. "PIZZA."
Everyone knows about Chicago's deep dish pizza. How could I leave the city without trying it?
Coming from LA, Chicago is freaking FREEZING. The block and a half we walked from our parking space to the restaurant was like torture. So the blast of warm air and delicious pizza smells right as I walked through the door immediately made this place great.
It was pretty packed, but the wait was still only about 20 minutes. We ordered our veggie pizza before we were seated to make the wait a little shorter.
Service was quick, we got our pizza, and yeah. Hands down the best pizza I have ever had. Thick and cheesy and vegetable-y and saucy. Just yum all around. I also got to use a fork and knife to eat my pizza, which I always see people do but have never had the chance to do myself. (Because if it's not deep dish and cheesy and saucy, what's the point?)
It's six months later and I still think about this place. If not for the fact that I wasn't going to be back in LA for another few days after leaving Chicago, I would have ordered some frozen ones to eat at home. I almost wish I were moving to Chicago and not Philly, because deep dish pizzas are infinitely more delicious than Philly cheesesteaks!
Giordano's isn't exactly deep dish but it is my favorite non-thin crust pizza in Chicago. Unlike Uno's, all Giordano's pizzas taste the same no matter which location you go to. So nice to know it is always going to taste good!
The problem with the pizza is that I can never have more than 2 pieces. But lucky me that I always have leftovers the next day.
I'm an East Coast girl, so I stick true to my roots -- Brooklyn-style pizza will always be #1 in my heart.
But for now, I'm loving deep dish, especially from Giordano's. The sauce, the crust, the variety of toppings...it all comes together in one delicious, mozzarella-stringing piece. I always take my out-of-town friends to taste what REAL deep dish is like (Uno's is the biggest disappointment in your life, kind of like not getting the dog you wished you had).
Food's great, so are the prices. I know this is a touristy location -- but I'm okay with paying whoever much for a deep dish since more ingredients are thrown in...so it's pretty reasonable altogether.
Biggest gripe? The service! I was here last Thursday with some friends, and we barely saw our waiter. We saw more of the busboy giving us our drinks, pizza, and cleaning up after us. And, when we tried to pick up the check, our waiter said, word by word, "Just wait a second" and gave us the hand in the rudest manner ever.
Seriously?
Come here for the food, but definitely not the service.
The Best Stuffed Pizza in Chicago.
It just is.
Gino's, Uno and Due, Lou Malnati's? Please. You guys "coulda been a contender", but ended up being mere pretenders to the title.
Giordano's wins.
Can be slow, of course it takes a long time to bake the deep-dish pizzas, but the service itself is also sometimes slow.
Giordano's is a fairly large chain of restaurants with about 40 locations in the greater metropolitan area, and some other places as well.
So it's somewhat formulaic, if you have seen one then basically you have seen them all. However the uniform quality also means that you know in advance that it's going to be really good.
Giordano's would get one star alone for being a life saver, when we arrived in Chicago, tired, hungry, and very late. Everything around our hotel was closed, but Giordano's delivered--and not just delivered, but right to our hotel room door.
It was exactly what I wanted at the time: thick crust, stuffed full of cheese, and with little packets of red pepper flakes to add a much-needed spice. Since I was absolutely starving, I ate two pieces in about ten minutes.
And then, I discovered the downside of Giordano's: feeling preeeeetty gross afterwards. Nevertheless, I definitely wouldn't complain about eating here again if I was in Chicago, but out of the three pizzas I tried while there, it was my least favorite.
Don't waste your time.
I knew better--going to a touristy restaurant in any city is almost always a huge disappointment. But, a friend insisted it was good food and so we went. We waited over 40 minutes to be seated. First, we waited in line to put our names on the waiting list, and then were provided with a menu to come back and place our order so it was ready when we knew what we wanted. So, we went to order and they made us wait in line again to place that, despite telling us to come back up to the counter.
We were finally seated and brought to a TINY table in the bar that could barely fit 2 drinks, let alone any food. The seats were uncomfortable and people walked by us and bumped us constantly. At one point, a server dropped some spinach on the floor, a manager almost fell on his ass after stepping on it, and nobody even cleaned it up after that. In addition, there was someone's old hamburger in a corner of the bar that sat there for the duration of our meal. One server on break even sat down next to it and ate, but never cleaned it up.
I got the caesar salad, which was edible, but the dressing was watery and they sure piled it on. I also had a stuffed pizza with spinach and mozzarella. It was disgusting. It literally tasted like cardboard. Gross. And, of course, after one huge serving, I was full and there was all this food left that I felt badly discarding, but sure didn't want to eat.
Shortly after we were served, they announced that they had run out of dough, which is just ridiculous given that they are a well-established restaurant and should know how much dough they need for a weekend night. They turned away everyone who arrived after that point--unprofessional.
The worst part was that, in the end, I paid $30 for one crap piece of pizza and a watery salad.
This is my second visit to this place, and what a difference from lunch to dinner. Lunch, I was seated right away. Dinner, I waited nearly 45 minutes after being told it would be 20. I watched people come and after a 5-10 minute wait they were seated.
They kept trying to get me to go to the bar, they only had had high tables and I need my feet to be on the ground, not hanging or clinging to the chair rails.
When I got to my table, I mentioned the wait to the server and suggested the manager buy me a beer. That's what happened and it made all the difference!
The pizza arrived within 3 minutes of my sitting down. It wasn't really hot, but just fine for me. It was loud and hot inside and I had to listen to 2 tables of idiots on either side of me, but that's not their fault. I didn't mention to them that I was hot, as everyone else seemed OK.
Now I have half a stuffed pizza for brunch tomorrow, and that's just fine with me.
I think I would love to go back for lunch again, but I would hesitate on going for dinner, at least if you are a table for one and don't want to sit in the bar.
I was so excited to finally be in Chicago to try the infamous Giordano's Pizza. It was listed the best deep dish in Chicago, so why wouldn't it taste good? Sadly, I can't say it lived up to it's reputation. I guess I can't really say it was disgusting, but I felt like the place was a little overrated.
It took a full 60 minutes for our pizza to come. Thank goodness we ordered the combination platter appetizer (so worth the $10.50) and a bowl of broccoli cheese soup. I don't know what the hell we were thinking, but between three adults, we ordered a large of both the Special and the Spinach stuffed crust. Personally, the special pizza tasted just like Costco's combination pizza. I preferred the Spinach one out of the two because it had a lighter and fresher flavor. I loved how I could taste the basil in it, how extra cheesy it was, and the crust was just better...yummo! I was stuffed after two slices.
Beyond their famous pizza, their sandwiches are great. Forget the corner sandwich store and order from Giordanos because their sandwich quality surpasses their pizza quality if you can believe it.
Use of the word 'small' is obviously all relative.... I think in Giordanos' they omitted the 'compared to an entire wheel of cheese' on the menu to give it some context...
Between two of us, we managed one third of a small pizza. I was starving after work, so we made the rookie error of having some spinach dip to start while the pizza was cooking. No! The dip was delicious and came with bits of crunchy stuff with bits of other crunchy stuff on top... but it took up pizza space. Incidentally, I also enjoyed a surprisingly nice glass of red with it.
Thankfully, the pizza reheats up pretty well in the oven the next day, so I ate a lot of cheese that week. It was goooood. I prefer this pizza to Gino's East (it doesnt collapse under its own weight), but I think I prefer the interior/vibe of the Malnati's place nearby... the pizzas at Malnatis/Giordanos are at a tie in my mind, as it's been too long since the Malnati's visit. It was definitely full of lovely fresh vegetables, a good amount of sausage, and had a very tasty tomato sauce (some more of it would be good!). I'd love to try the spinach one, as per Andre's recommendation. It definitely has a LOT of cheese. That's my enduring memory.
It looked like the deep fried starter selection was really popular which defies belief as I've no idea how people can fit that much food in. I clearly need to practice.... book me a table for next week... umyumyum.
One word Chicago: Overrrrated. I know this isn't the best Chicago has to offer (even though it claims to be and has been voted such by several news groups). Please tell me its not Chicago's finest. I went to Lou Malnati's, but didn't feel like waiting 2 hours. That must be Chi town's best. So this is all I tried, and I was sorely disappointed. To add insult, it took them over an hour to get us our stuffed pie. Crust was dry and tasteless, sauce was mediocre, and overall the pizza was bland. I ended up boxing it up and giving it away on the street.
Sorry Chicago, but Zachary's in Oakland, CA does Chicago style better than Chicago.
I was visiting a friend who lives in Chicago and we, with our other friends, went to Giordano's for an early dinner. My stomach can't handle heavy food, but theirs could so I was lame and ordered garlic bread and a Greek salad while the rest of them ordered a deep dish cheese pizza. When our food arrived, the waitress put the salad in the middle of table, assuming that we were going to be eating it before the pizza, but alas, I told her, in a defeated voice, that it was my meal and she looked surprised. I guess people don't exactly go there for salads. The Greek salad was....a Greek salad. It came with anchovies, which I love and was decent. The garlic bread came with marinara sauce and was not all that garlicky. As soon as my friends got their pizza, they dove in. I bravely tried a small piece and found it to be absolutely wonderful. The smell and taste of the pizza was nothing like I had every had before. It tasted rich and fresh and definitely put any pizza I've ever had in DC to shame. I did not have an entire slice however, fearing for my digestive well being, but if my stomach somehow turns to steel, I will gladly come back next time I am in Chicago.
Hour wait to get in and it was.... well, sort of worth it.
I tend to think this place is a bit overrated, and their are other pizza shops with better pies. I was born in Chicago and grew up eating pizza in the Chi. The pie is deep dish and overloaded with cheese in the middle, tomato sauce, and minimal toppings (bummer) on the top of the stuffed pie.
Customer service was not good at all. Not once did the waiter checkup on us once the pizza was out. I was without beverage for the 2nd half of my meal...
I like to consider Giordanos as a parallel to Jim's Steaks in Philly. You go to Giordanos if you don't know anything about Chicago-style pizza and you are a visiting tourist. But this is a good place for people to get acquainted with deep dish pies (UNOs doesn't count!) in the Windy City.
Fantastic pie! It was very busy, but we got seated about 30 minutes after we walked-in on a Friday night. A deep dish pie takes about 40 minutes to cook. The staff didn't rush us; in fact they were very attentive. The food was well worth the wait.
After many, many recommendations of "best pie places in Chicago", for our last dinner meal before returning to D.C., we opted for Giordano's, because we heard it was supposed to be "the best of the best", and also because it's practically a stone's throw away from the Hyatt.
Two lessons I have taken away from that meal: Lesson One - when somebody tells you to bring your appetite to Giordano's and NOT to have any appetizers beforehand, LISTEN TO THEM.
And Lesson Two? The "best stuffed pie" debate may continue to rage on, but it's all fairly subjective. I can't say that a bite of Giordano's generously endowed "small" pie (and I use the word "small" facetiously) had me shouting to the rafters for joy, but for what it is, it's a pretty damn good pie. I just wish we hadn't had chicken fingers and spinach artichoke dip before. It was a damn shame we couldn't take the leftovers back to the hotel room with us, because that would've kept us fed for another two days at least!
And no offense, but just in my own opinion, Giordano's still has a ways to go before it usurps the throne of Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinders Company. Now THAT is pizza worth fist-fighting for!
Staying at the Fairmont nearby and wanting to try something distinctly Chicago, I ended up at Giordano's on my first night. I've never eaten "authentic" Chicago deep dish or stuffed pizza and was pretty excited at the prospect. I've always enjoyed thicker crust pizza and from the praises and aesthetic of the Chicago pie, what's not to like.
The execution of this beast of a pizza was quite bad by any means. There was just way too much going on, and none of it good. Too cheesy, up to a point where it was hard to eat. I imagine a depp dish crust to be crisp buy yet chewy with a nice give. But this crust had the texture of a cookie / biscotti. Too god damn hard.
I'm sure this doesn't represent Chicago pizza as a whole and may as well be one of those places where tourist such as myself go to experience Chicago pie but this sucks regardless.
A lot of ppl told me to try Chicago stuffed style pizza when I go to Chicago. I did try it.. It tastes so good. I love the crust and we get to pick the topping we want for the stuffing;. Even though the wait is long, it worth it.
We need to preorder the stuffed pizza for 45 mins ahead, so it give them more time to bake the fresh pizza.
I am in love with Giordano's pizza. I won't be able to eat chicago style pizza as good as in Chicago.
Best known food about Chicago is their deep dish Pizza. Oh, did I mention this was the best pizza I have ever tasted? I must admit I am a big sucker for Cheese but this pizza was cheese heaven. when you slice into the pizza and pick it up the strings of cheese are endless and you must saw it off into order to finally claim it on your dish. I had pepperoni with jalapeno and it was all very wonderful! It's definitely a good experience with a long 2 hour wait. But this pizza was literally deep in cheese.
This place gets a ton of hype but afterwards you're going to need a ton of pepcid. The deep dish is their signature product, but its a huge gut bomb consisting mainly of mozerella cheese. This place def. caters to tourists and gets pretty busy. Skip the line and sit in the bar.
With 195 reviews, I guess you get the picture, but I wanted to comment specifically how Giordano's is in relation to wedding stuff. We used them for a rehearsal dinner location. We wanted something casual to balance out a very polished wedding. They are very helpful in answering questions before and during the rental and were very accomodating to all of our guests (including the picky/annoying ones). We got enough privacy yet enough service as well. The food was great and it was the perfect choice for sharing deep dish pizza with those who are not local and came from other parts of the country. If you are having a wedding rehearsal dinner or a bridal shower or even just a get together, they do parties as well as they do deep dish.
OMG...I ate 2 pounds of cheese. Extremely filling pizza. Ordered a small, half spinach half something else with sausage and veggies. It takes a good 35 minutes for the pizza to cook. Ate salad to hold us over because we were stahhhving! Once the pizza arrives the crust is a good 2 inches thick if not more. The spinach portion of the pizza was lacking...spinach. It looks like they just spread single layer of spinach leaves. The other half was full of veigges and a spattering of sausage. Overall for my first stuffed pizza it wasn't bad. Although I've had Uno's deep dish and I would say its about the same.
This is a whole day's meal. I shared the small pizza and we finished it but we were stuffed for until the next day. We walked around for a good 3 hours to help alleviate the fullness.
Be prepared to get "stuffed," I love puns.
From the vintage Chicago travel posters to the stuffed pizza model upon entering to the friendly waitstaff to the lively dining area with a Cubs game on several televisions - this was a fun experience and a very good dinner.
Having already tried Geno's East, Uno's, and Lou Malnati's by the time my family and I went to this Giordano's location (near the Hyatt Regency where we were staying), I have to admit I was a little "deep-dished-out (yes, it is possible)." Well, fortunately for me, this isn't technically "deep dish," it's Stuffed Pizza. "Semantics," I said - and dove into Giordano's Supreme with a 312 wheat draft beer (a local microbrew selection).
Crust was a bit crunchier than I'd like AND (I can't believe I'm saying this): the pie was almost too big. But the "toppings (I suppose you can't call them that here)" were very good and quite filling. Good food, good beer, and a good time had by all.
So, I suppose Chicago's deep dish version of the Pat's/Gino's Philly cheesesteak rivalry and the Anchor Bar/Duffs Buffalo chicken wing rivalry and the Sal's/Franks New Haven coal oven pizza rivalry will rage on commensurately. Truth be told, I enjoyed sampling all of them - Final Tally: 1st - Geno's East, 2nd - Malnati's, 3rd - Giordano's, 4th - Uno's. All good, all worth trying, none disappointing! Enjoy.
Next, I'm off to Beijing in August to compare rival Peking Duck restaurants!
Yay! My first foray into Chicago style pizza. Pies come with lots of cheese baked into the crust and toppings, and the sauce is very good. My friend asked for a side of jalapenos, which was an awesome call. Veggie pizza is delish. Bravo!
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