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Category: Pizza
Neighborhood: Near North SideGrand (Red)
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Due is delicious! Yes, you have to order your pizza while you wait but that just tells you that they make it fresh. The service was great. The food was terrific and, while I fear for my life saying this, I liked it better than Lou Malnati's.
I am a vegetarian so I had the spinach and cheese pizza. It was warm and cheesy. The crust had a buttery taste that I loved. The garlic cheese bread was good too. Garlic and cheese! How can you go wrong? If I ever have the good fortune to return to the Chicago area I will definitely stop by again.
Pizzeria Due is the place to go to get a real Uno's pizza without the Uno's tourist crowd. Growing up, this was the treat to go to. Somewhere along the way Uno's franchised - they're all over the US, and they're NOT really Uno's pizza; when I lived in Queens my girlfriend took me to one and I was appalled at the frozen-reheated meagerly deep dish (not stuffed) pizza that was served. People were raving all round me, "Wow, real Chicago pizza!" Um, no. Due's - now THAT's real pizza. Stuffed, gooey - the very definition of a Chicago pie.
So if you're coming to Chicago and think you've had a "real Uno's" pie, disavow yourself of that inane notion and do what the locals do: go to Due's. Find out what real pizza is.
And if you live here - eat as often as your cholesterol tests allow. :-)
I had to review this place....just had to. My first deep dish pizza experience ever. I came here with girlfriends from college when they came to visit me during my birthday weekend a couple of years ago. Let's just say this...I was impressed by the customer service.
We ended up waiting an hour and a half for a table for 4...typical....I mean, it's downtown Chicago for deep dish pizza...helllllllooooo tourist. To speed up the process, we ordered our pizza while we were waiting to be seated. When we were finally at our table, we got a round of beers and a couple of medium pies. Well, we ended up waiting 2 hours for our pizza, which was a little ridiculous. So...2 rounds of beer and an appetizer later, we're still starving and getting impatient for our deep dish. It was pretty good...the sausage pizza was awesome...little heavy but I ate a huge share...I was hungry....!
Keep in mind, we all had out of state driver licenses, so the server could have brushed us off as just more annoying tourists. However, after I mentioned to him our 2 hour wait for our deep dish (after being seated and ordering while we were waiting for a table!), the server and manager came by and told us our entire meal was to be comped. :) Well, the server walked away with a $50 tip from us that night. (Way cheaper than what we would have spent.) Have I been back since? No...I refuse to wait 1+ hours for deep dish pizza. Pleasant and memorable experience none the less. Free gives you lots of stars. :)
I had pizza here when we visited Chicago and I have to say, I liked the deep dish pizza with all sorts of vegetables and meats then the regular cheese pizza which seemed a little bland to me. However, everyone has their own tastes and cheese may be the way to go! It's a really cute place and I'd love to eat here again and try something different on the menu.
BEST PIZZA IN THE WORLD!!!!!! If I had a choice for a last meal this would be it. I am a huge fan of their specialty pizzas BBQ Chicken and Spinoccoli. I've been to Due and Uno down the street and the quality of Due's surpasses Uno by far. The reason for the 4 stars is the service is inconsistent and can drag sometimes.
After wandering in the rain with my GF this past weekend we came across Dues on our hunt for the great deep dish za. I was not disappointed by any means.
I had a spinach deep dish pie. The crusts flavor was a bit different then what I was used to but I quickly became a fan. The sauce was perfect and the cheese was plentiful. Overall I thought it was a good slice. I wish the Garlic bread was a bit crisper and not so chewy but the loads of cheese on it mad up for it. there is a bit of a wait for the pizza but at least it means youget a fresh pie. I highly recommend this place for first timers in chi town...
Great little joint, very nice welcome to Chitown. Ginos was closed (got in to town after 9) and they guy there suggested Due which other friends recommended. Good bunch of staff, friendly and good fun, small menu but got the essentials. Being only partly Italian allows me to order BBQ chicken pizza without being a traitor so I went that route, damn good pizza. Maybe Zach's is good in tha Yay Area but they don't do individual sizes, even that was plenty fo me. Great beer too, seem to remember having Goose Island Ale somewhere else but I'm liking it, went well with the bbq pizza.
The place is real tight, old victorian amongst the high-rises, nice atmosphere and not dead or packed on Tuesday night. I'm a fan, def be back again.
This place was featured as one of the city's best why???
Charming little restaurant, friendly staff... but my goodness, the deep dish pizza left something to be desired! Honestly, there was nothing exceptional about the sauce, the cheese, or the filling. You'd think the crisp crust was its only saving grace until you realize that a saltine cracker has more flavor than that!
Sorry, I don't get the fascination with this place.
Excellent pizza and excellent service!
After a couple miles of walking and sightseeing in and around Chicago's "Loop District", my eye spotted Pizzeria Due and I couldn't resist. I'd been told that Gino's is even better, but there was just no more walking in my feet until eating something.
I took a stool at the bar and ordered a beer and I simply could not decide what to have - Spinach or BBQ chicken or Spinocolli or a white pizza. I asked the bartender (a well tattooed dude named Pablo) to tell me what he has when he has pizza. He said that he usually has the Pesto. So I went with that and also ordered some garlic bread (without cheese) to get me through the wait.
The bread was perfectly toasted and was served with a small pot of marinara sauce for dipping. When I'd finished half of that, I had another beer and the pizza came out. Thoughtfully, Pablo only had half of this "small" brought out - the other half was waiting until I was ready for it in the oven. A fantastic idea, because I was able to eat about 2/3 of this half of a small.
The pizza was a steaming melty pile of goodness. The crust was hot and buttery, there was a ton of cheese that was hot and drippy and the pesto was glorious. Amazingly good!
Pablo brought me a box and the leftover pizza will do just fine for tonight's "dinner" in the hotel room. Sadly, there's no Blue Moon or Goose Island Pilsner to go with it.
Five stars! It was a lot expensive ($6 for draft beers?), but I would absolutely try this place again!
The wait at Pizzeria Uno was almost two hours so we decided to head across the street to Pizzeria Due... same owners anyway. There was still a wait but not as long. We passed time by standing around outside in the frigid cold and drinking beers. It was probably 30 degrees and I had on a t-shirt and jeans. Everybody walking by looked at me like I was an idiot. I was. But the joke was on them when, after 4 beers, I developed super powers and was suddenly immune to the cold.
The restaurant has an intentionally cramped feel to it - narrow hallways, larger rooms broken up into smaller rooms, and a busy decor. I guess this provided a more homely environment.
We decided on wings for appetizers and for pizza, the spinach pie and some kind of meat combo. As soon as I picked up a slice, I realized that deep dish pizza really meant deep fried pizza. I had enough oil on my hands to cook tomorrow's breakfast. The dough was obviously soaked in a generous pool of olive oil and butter, then slurped all of it up while bubbling in the pan. It wasn't hard for me to ignore the grease and sink in my first bite. Oh my goodness, this was good pizza. I ate 3 or 4 slices, probably 4. These slices were huge too, 4 was probably equivalent to 8 regulars which was ultimately equivalent to me eating way too much. I was done. Like, turn off the lights and turn on the TV because I'm passing out.
The outing was a success. Would probably like to try out other pizza joints the next time I'm in Chicago but I'll be back to Pizzeria Due someday.
my first taste of the world renowned chicago pizza was at pizzeria due.
I should say that I wasnt impressed at all. the pizza was made from scratch as we were told by the server. we ordered the small sized pizza which is sliced up to 4 pcs approx 3.5 inches thick. We ordered the Due pizza special which is equivalent to the super supreme of pizza hut.
Will try another pizzza place to give my taste buds another chance.
Went with a big group of out of towners. The salad was o.k., the apps were o.k., the pizza was underwhelming. Maybe that is the point of a stuffed pizza place near the hotels?
And they set us up in such a way that most people were trapped in their seats.
The decor, the staff, and the appetizers are all average to mediocre. What I really wanted was deep dish pizza - and it was disgusting. It was like eating a huge (and burnt) saltine cracker with melted cheese and sauce on it. A total waste of time and money.
Just no....
It was a really bad hunger-fueled decision. I had an out-of-town guest, we wanted to sit outside and she wanted pizza- Chicago style pizza.
I thought to myself, "how bad can it be?" and the answer is yes.
It really was that bad....
The pizza is a joke. Our classic deep spinach and cheese had the appropriate amount of spinach for it to be basil. It was just a colorful accent. The sauce was flavorless... yuck.
The wine list is slender... we had the most $ bottle on the menu at $26. Our server brought it to the table open already... really? Very sus... and who does that? You can't afford a $5 wine key?
The service was not so great either. He could have turned our table twice as fast....
We did get to sit outside and with no wait (suprise, suprise).
Not sure I will ever be hungry enough to eat there again. I'd sooner eat a loafer.
This is a horrible example of what Chicago pizza could be like. I took my boyfriend straight to the first pizzeria in Chicago hoping to show him what I'd been talking about for years-a real Chicago style pizza whether it be deep dish, stuffed, cornmeal crust etc...
We walked in, down to the host stand and was lead outside by a server talking to the hostess behind the podium. We were sat directly by the door with no plates, no utensils and no condiments. That being said, we weren't expecting much. It's late at night, we're jet lagged and hungry so we didn't even blink an eye when the waitress inquires "that's all you're getting?" when we order a small sausage deep dish and an order of buffalo wings. It came of as a little rude but I hardly thought much of it.
The wings get dropped off with a busser, the drinks are dropped off by another server and still no napkins to be found anywhere with our Tyson's buffalo wing they're passing off as their own. The wings were undercooked and when I say undercooked I mean the flesh was still raw. Gross. I pushed aside my portion of wings and waited for the pizza. It did take about 20 minutes which is a miracle in the world of deep dish so that was a plus.
Once I tasted the pizza, I understood why it only took 20 minutes. Like the Tyson's Buffalo wings before, the crust tastes like it was manufactured from some Rachel Ray 30 minute meal type recipe book. Gross. The cheese had no taste and wasn't even gooey at all leading me to believe there was more oil than dairy in this cheese. The sausage was dry and hard which is hard to accomplish in a deep dish and the sauce would have tasted better if it came from Prego or Ragu.
This place was such a disappointment and I was so mortified taking him here as his first example of what Chicago style pizza could be like. I could tell by his face that he didn't enjoy it, could even finish his slice and was merely eating it to be polite. We couldn't even find our server until it came to pay the bill and she stayed right by the door smoking a cigarette?! until I put my credit card down. She's truly a pizza schlepper and not a good one at that. This place needs to redo it's recipe or at least get one good server to make up for the lack of decent pizza.
OK you are in Chicago. You dont need me to tell you to eat deep dish pizza. You DO need me to tell you to eat at Due. And if you are smart, you will eat here at an off-hour or your lunch will turn into dinner.
Due is hands down, one of the best. The crust is wonderful and not too much. The sauce is equally delicious and in perfect proportion. They load on the toppings, and they are serious. No fake sausage or small chopped veggies.
REAL DEAL TOPPINGS.
Some advice for fellow Yelp'ers ..Lunch special Mon-Fri - 7.99 for a personal pizza and salad. Great deal! You can also make reservations during the week (not on weekends) and order food in advance. Good option if in a hurry.
As for types of pizza ..I got the Due special (pepperoni, sausage, onion, pepp, and mush). Great! Sister got the Spinach and Broccoli and only had good things to say. Brother got the BBQ Chicken which was a good option. The waitress recommended the 4 cheese and pesto ...but it sounds too healthy. You can get all of these types for the lunch special, which is nice,
My only negative is that the place is SMALL. You will wait if you come during the rush times, and wait for a while. Also, for some reason, the restaurant was pretty empty when I went, yet the hostess was adamant that every diner sit in the same corner. There were literally 25 people in one corner while the rest of the restaurant was completely open. I understand maybe this was maybe for the servers, but we were quite cramped. Also, the mens bathroom is like the size of my left arm. When you wash your hands, you are literally on top of the urinal next to you. There is a STRONG potential for backsplash, while washing. No good.
SO ..SO ..SO much better than Giordanos or Gino's East. If I could get an IV pumping me full of Due, I would consider it.
You would think, a chicago ex-pat like myself would've been here many times when I actually lived in Chicago---nope, not once. In fact I haven't even heard of it til I left chicago. I was familiar with Pizzeria Uno as I went to the one in NYC in SoHo but again, I never went to the original in Chicago down the street from Pizzeria Due.
Anyhow, on a visit with my gf, I convinced her to cheat from her usual vegan diet. No I'm not that convincing, I just have a really really nice gf who believes, that sometimes it's okay to depart from vegan meals to try something that is "cultural" which you couldn't have any other way as vegan without losing something amazing in return.
So here we are with a small pie and I'm thinking, holy crap, when's the last time I had a pie like this, ten, fifteen, years?! Shit, that was Giordano's back in the day. So salivating like Homer Simpson for Duff's beer, I dive right in and felt like a teenager again. That is one good pie folks!
Even the vegan girlfriend can agree that that's one damn good pie. Both of us prefer NY style thin crust pizza especially considering she grew up in Jersey but you can't beat a chicago-style deep dish pizza once in a blue moon.
Of course, I still think of Connie's as I grew up a block down from the main restaurant but like hawaiians love spam, it's not necessarily a good thing. ;-)
Chi-town deep dish, at its finest.
Granted, I was only visiting for about 6 days...but some local friends took me here with the assumption that I wanted to make an educated call on this whole Chicago vs New York pizza brawl. Decision? Deep dish all the WAY. Delicious pizza, and some great wings as well (if you want pizza on the GO though, would have to go with NYC...much easier to stuff in your face). Overall a good start to my brief vacation.
I'm not going to lie though, we tried another pizza joint in a back alley somewhere one evening and it was much better than this. Can we actually now say that all chains aren't up to par with their indie rivals??
Whenever I'm with people who have never been to Chicago, Pizzeria Due is one of the first places I take them. It's quintessential Chicago pizza deep dish joint, and Due is usually less busy than Uno. The deep dish here is simply excellent, and it's so filling you can split one pizza up amongst a relatively large number of people. Sitting outside in the summer is nice, and I also like the basement interior. Service is totally fine for a pizza joint. (You can also get take-out if it's really busy.)
Minus one star because the non-pizza food is pretty mediocre (iceberg lettuce salads anyone?). But really, you're coming here for the classic deep dish.
I was looking forward to trying Due, one of the originals of the Uno chain. I have to say I was a little disappointed. Starting with the bar, where my first beer was skunked and flat (and where it took the bartender ten minutes to get me a new one), to being seated, which led to a big kerfuffle between the hostess and the waitstaff over where we should sit, to the pizza, which was overcooked (charred crust), to getting the bill, which took almost 45 minutes. I have to think they had a bad night, but seriously, the service here was terrible from start to finish. The pizza was, despite being burned, reasonably good, but no better than others I've had in Chicago.
The Original Deep Dish. Well, the other original. Uno was the first and Due was second, as you might imagine. Strangely enough, though I worked for a franchise location in college, I'd never had either original Uno or Due til last night. But I'm glad I did. Oh, so very glad.
The wait for two was 30-35 mins on a Friday night (actually ended up being 40 mins, but who's counting? besides me...), so not bad at all. Fare more reasonable than the hour-forty wait at Uno down the street that serves THE EXACT SAME FOOD. idiots. They rotate people at the front door to give you approx. wait time, since they don't accept reservations Thurs.-Sun. You order ahead, and by the time your table is ready, the food isn't far behind.
Garlic bread with cheese was very slightly burnt, cheese was a little rubbery. Probably could've done without, since we were so full after the main meal. And my buddy's 22oz. Blue Moon arrived with a fruit fly in it at no extra charge. It was promptly replaced.
Sausage and garlic pizza was good. sauce light and sweet, sausage plentiful and sausage-y, garlic was....well, garlic, but the pizza could've used a little more cheese. The crust is the real story. Flaky and awesome. not oily, but not dry or doughy either. kind of like a thick pastry, easily cuttable with just a fork. it was perfect.
I'll be back, but next time I'll skip the beer and my share of the garlic bread. And i'll save myself almost $9 in the process! :D
This is the only deep dish pizza I've had in Chicago but the crust was perfect, just the right amount of crispiness. It's a lot of cheese but that's not a bad thing.
Hands down one of the best pizza places in the city. We took an out-of-town guest here to show him what Chicago pizza was all about and we were not disappointed.
Service was friendly and I think our waitress was trying to hit on our guest, but being a typical guy - he didn't notice. She was funny and attentive.
Order your pizza while you wait and the pizza will be ready when you are seated. Otherwise, deep dish takes 45 minutes to bake - so don't come starving to this place!
Excellent deep-dish pizza. We were a party of two, and we considered ordering a medium. The hostess laughed at us. So we ordered a small instead, and were humbled by the enormous portion size.
We got the Uno special, I believe, and the toppings were fantastic. Could've had more cheese though - the tomato flavor was a little overwhelming but in the good way. The meats were...bountiful. An entire layer of sausage that bogged us down towards the end. We felt guilty the entire day- especially since we planned another binge at Charlie Trotter's (see review).
I haven't had any other deep-dish pizza, so I can't compare. But it was just about the most delicious pizza of any kind.
Drawbacks: EXTREME crowdedness. Management are definitely bribing the fire marshalls. A sign at the door put legal occupancy at 62, but there were at least 200 people in there. A fire would've killed us all. Also, service could've been faster but I guess there were a lot of tables to serve per each waitress.
After having so much Michigan "Chicago" Pizza, comparatively, the deep dish here is outstanding.
light/flaky crust
tomato-ey sauce
pile on the toppings
Devour the climactic goodness. Very Accomodating to my no cheese policy (which I know is blasphemy for deep dish).
Michigan's "Chicago" Pizza, has it all wrong. Pisses me, right the fuck off. Maybe when I was living in Chicago, I would have thought Due's pizza was decent, but after eating so much mediocre Michigan pizza to the point where I've become ok with it, eating this is a little slice of heaven.
My family used to go to Pizzeria Due when I was a kid years ago, but I moved to Colorado in the early eighties and became a "ski bum". So I had not been back to Due for many years, needless to say my mouth was watering for some authentic Chicago Pizza while I was in Chi town on vacation.
I was with Jack who had never been to Pizzeria Due. When we arrived there was a wait, so they took our name and also our pizza order at the same time. It was just Jack and I but we ordered the classic old Large Sausage pizza, so we'd have lots of pizza to take home. We only waited like 5 min. for a table but it was rather early on a week night. Once seated we enjoyed a beer as I tried to remember what the restaurant looked like years ago, because I sure seem to remember it having a lot more "atmosphere" and personality back-in-the-day. It took them close to 45 minutes to make and bake our large sausage pie, but it was well worth the wait, because the pizza was awesome! It was authentic Pizzeria Due pizza just as I remembered it growing up. The classic deep dish crust was flaky, very tasty and filled with generous amounts of wonderful melted cheese, excellent sausage, then topped with delicious tomato sauce.
I'm so glad we went to Pizzeria Due while we were in Chicago. It was one of the highlights of the trip. So what did Jack think? Jack said it was the best pizza he's ever had!
I went to Pizzeria Uno first, and their wait was over an hour, so we went here and their wait was just under an hour. You have to know what you want to order before being put on the list because the pizza takes so long. So my friend and I sauntered over to the bar and I made friends with the bartender by speaking spanish to him (I know, a white girl in chicago speaking spanish!?) so the wait wasn't so bad with drinks being put in front of me as soon as my previous one was finished :)
So by the time the pizza arrived, we were STARVING and we had ordered a medium. even with my appetite, I could only finish ONE PIECE!! so we had to take most of it home, haha. all in all, it was a good experience and I would come here again next time i'm in town.
Much prefer regular pizza than the deep dish pizza pie we got here. Whatever all that stuff was they put in the center, completely took away from good old fashioned pizza taste. Ever since I left there, the slightest odor of pizza makes me nauseated.
However, the server was very pleasant and attentive to our needs.
Was visiting on a business trip and had to have a chicago deep dish before I left. Uno was packed and noticed that Due had the same menu (then realized its the same owner)...had a draft and a personal chicago pesto. It was good, but way to cheesy. So much so that I had to ask for a side of tomato sauce to at least get some flavor. Barely got through 1.5 slices and I had to call it quits. Leftovers went to a bum hanging out outside.
Moral of the story: large portions and ok chicago deep dish
I did not enjoy the hour and half wait.
I did enjoy the deepdish pizza which was delightful and
after a drunken night in Chicago, we had much left overs
for after party feasting. Its not too much more special
than the UNOs here.
Tasty spinach and mushroom deep dish with a fresh-tasting tomato sauce and a crunchy/flaky crust, but what they do well also is the Hot Italian Beef Sandwich that comes with pepperocinis and encased in a soft submarine bun that you can dip in a savory au jus.
Comes with a salad decked with cheese and salami, and all of the soda you can drink.
I am by no means a pizza snob, but I know how godawful this pizza was. I'm familiar with Chicago deep dish, and I'm familiar with the "Pizzeria Uno" chain pizza as well, and this was...well, this was just flat out gross.
I came for the lunch special, I got the sausage pizza and my gf got the cheese. Let's do a run down of the ingredients.
The crust was like something out of a pillsbury can, only blander.
The cheese was Kraft-worthy.
The sausage - quite literally - tasted like a flattened patty of jimmy dean's breakfast sausage.
The sauce was not fit for a can of spaghettios.
My gf, who couldn't cook a meal if it microwaved itself for her, said "I could probably make something like this at home."
I am not kidding. This was that bad. The spaghettios bit is probably an exaggeration but even the sausage that the CHAINS use is far superior to the utter crap that was heaved on my pizza. Stay away. This is garbage.
Due's is a sell out. The restaurant is a chain now owned by the same crappy pizza they sell at the Uno's chain across the country. The pizza crust used to be GOD'S crust. Now, it is like pillsbury. The sides and top of the crust were puffy and browned. It should be thin, buttery, and crunchy on the sides. The crust used to be inconspicuous when you looked at your pizza. Now, it takes over the entire pizza. Look at the photo posted. You can see how thick the crust is. It was NEVER like that before. It used to never fall apart either. You would have to either bite it or cut it with a knife to cut through the crunchy crust.
I dont think they changed the cheese and the tomatoes.
I will never eat here again, even though it was once my favorite pizza. Anyone who ate here before it got bought out knows what Im talking about.
Sat outside, had the deep dish and a salad like everyone else who comes there, good pizza but a little bland. Beer was good, (Goose Island produced for them). Out server was very good, the reservation system is a little disorganized for my taste but it was Saturday night and there were lots of hungry people.
I thought this place would bowl me over with a fantastic experience, in the end I was satisfied but not blown away by any means. Still I would come back definetly, Now excuse me, I need to eat some left overs for breakfast.
Chao!
Due's is officially a sellout!!!!!! Something has changed here...big time! I understand they were recently bought out by the UNO's chain (and they recently started using UNO's corporate drink menu, advertisements, pizza boxes, etc) but I cannot believe they would change anything about the original pizza. The crust is like a store bought Pillsbury not the flaky wonderfulness that I have been used to my entire life and the cheese is by no means as flavorful as it once was. I would 100% recommend you try Lou Malnati's for a real, AUTHENTIC, time tested Chicago style pizza.
After Lou Malnati's this is a very, very close second! Do not miss this place!
This place would have gotten the fiver, but we had to wait a REALLY long time for our pizza... A couple kudos to note though. We were offered the choice to go ahead and put our orders in before being seated so we could cut some time from the wait. We didn't have to wait to be seated more than five minutes and this was at a pretty busy time of the day. There were five of us and we each got single deep dish pizzas which I was impressed was even an option. I, and four others, got the Pizzeria Due personal pan and another got the Vegetarian personal pan. We were told a couple times that our pizzas were in the works, so it was nice they made sure we were happy and updated. The pizza were more than filling and we all left satisfied.
Nice atmosphere, fantastic food and service (the waitress, Alice, was more than happy to separate our checks which I know is a major pain in the ass, but she did it happily), just a bit slow. Definitely recommended!
The best thing: The pizza was amazing. Maybe the best pizza crust I've ever had.
The worst thing: Waiting an hour for an individual pizza when the restaurant is relatively slow
The second best thing: The outdoor seating is awesome
The second worst thing: The TV situation at the bar really sucks...but the place is small, so what can you do.
Overall verdict: I flew all the way back to California and I'm still thinking about the awesome pizza. I will absolutely be back!
Best damn Chicago Deep Dish. I mean this is as good as it gets.
I don't know why I like Due better than Uno. It's weird - they really are the same restaurant. However, I just like Due's better. It's everything Uno's is without the same heinous wait time. Seriously.
Pizza is phenomenal. I don't like to get Deep Dish all the time (does that make me a bad Chicagoain?) but when I do, I go to Due's. I always take friends and family here when they come to visit so that they can have the "real Chicago Deep Dish" experience. The pizza is always piping hot when it comes out of the oven right to your table and melted cheese spills out all over your plate. My mouth is watering right now just talking about it!
The service is always great, too. I've had some servers who seem to not want to be there anymore and I can totally understand - it's insanely busy and you've already talked to 100 annoying, under-tipping tourists. It really doesn't bother me at all. 95% of the time everyone is super nice and accommodating. I've always brought big groups in here, so it's nice that all of our drinks come on time and we get prompt refills. Working with 10+ diners is hard.
Restaurant is small, cozy and kitschy Italian-esque. You know, the checkered table cloths and such. There are tons of people crammed inside, so be prepared to squeeze by other patrons. The bathrooms are oddly tiny, but not really in a bad way. Just in a weird way. Again, be prepared for the weird squeezing by people.
Just be prepared to WAIT. Due's usually has a shorter wait time than Uno's, but I've never waited less than 45 minutes to eat here. Is it worth it? Absolutely!
Deep dish pizza for a vegan? Hmm... I brought my from-out-of-town little brother here, since he doesn't get to have real Chicago pizza very often.
I saw the line of people waiting and became worried, but it ended up not being long of a wait. They do the logical thing and take your order right away so your pizzas are baking while you wait for a table. (It takes 45 minutes whether you have a table or not.)
I asked if I could have a vegan-style pizza - no cheese, with extra veggies to make up for it. They said they'd make me the veggie deep dish without the cheese. It was ok, but there was barely an eighth of an inch of thinly-sliced peppers, onions and a couple mushroom pieces. I was hoping for a bit more than that since the cheese is normally so thick and substantial, and probably a large part of the cost.
I'll risk being sacrilegious and say that I prefer a softer crust to the crumbly one here.
The semi-nostalgic, semi-kitschy ambience is typical of an "Italian" pizza place. Our server, Jodie, was genuinely friendly and watching out to make sure we were taken care of.
LOVE, love, love their pizza. Its definitely my favorite. Deep dish with pepperoni, onions, and green pepper! The crust is flaky and buttery. The veggies really did it for me on this pizza, they tasted like they were well grilled before they were put onto the pizza. We made the mistake of ordering appetizers because of the long wait for the pizza (you can call it in ahead of time). I wish I had held off on the appetizer's, so I could eat more pizza! I loved the pizza sauce, it had the perfect amount of seasonings. I could probably eat pizza everyday, and this is where I would want them from! FYI- We went to Due very late one night, so there was no wait. Our waitress was friendly, and it was obvious she loved her job. I would reccomend to anyone who loves good pizza!.
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A highly contested argument with Chicagoans, but I…
Some of my favorite dining destinations in the…
