Chicago's Pizza — Restaurant in Lake View Township

Are you and your family/friends looking for a good Chicago style deep dish pizza, but someone is gluten intolerant? Look no further than Chicago's Pizza.

My boyfriend is very gluten sensitive and, while I actually like cauliflower crust pizza, sometimes I have a real craving for that carpet bomb of cheese and marinara called the Chicago deep dish. However, if we go to a pizza place that has a "gluten free pizza", what my boyfriend receives is almost always this sad little personal pizza that looks pathetic next to the heaping mass of calories and happiness that is my full size real deep dish.

This all changed when we discovered Chicago's Pizza.

I was almost skeptical when I saw that their gluten free deep dish comes in multiple sizes right alongside the regular pizza. On their website it states that they have been perfecting their gluten free crust for many years and that it tastes almost identical to their regular pies. We decided to put that to the test.

I ordered a large 14" pie for myself and a 14" pie for him and we went to go pick it up. This was during the height of the 2020 pandemic so we were not able to enjoy the restaurant itself, but it was very nicely decorated and the cashier was very polite.

When we got the pizzas home, I noticed that my boyfriends pizza was placed inside of a special green pizza box with "GLUTEN FREE" on the top. This turned out to be very necessary because the two pies looked and smelled absolutely identical. Heaps of cheese, crust and marinara.

After slicing into my own pie, my boyfriend offered me part of the crust from his and I can honestly say that there was absolutely no difference between the two. The gluten free crust was just as flaky and buttery as the regular.

Keep in mind that there is a slight up-charge for the gluten free crust, but it is well worth it for the downtrodden, anti-gluten person in your group to enjoy a classic Chicago deep dish with you and not feel marginalized.

We will definitely be returning many times to Chicago's Pizza whenever we need to scratch that typical Chicagoan itch for our...

Our annual trip to Chicago involves an annual trip to a different Chicago style pizza place…this year my wife’s sensibility wanting gluten free options won out which brought us to Chicago’s Pizza (The Lakeview location.) There are lots of gluten-free options including bread, calzones, pizza (of all depths) all made from their house-made gluten free-dough.

For gluten-full me I had two kinds of deep dish pizza to choose from…One is their stuffed crust (“what we’re famous for” our waiter said) which has an extra layer on the bottom with cheese in it. They also have a more traditional Chicago deep dish pizza and the crusts and sauces for both are different.

It was Memorial day Monday and we were the only people in the restaurant. They took good care of us.

I got their house extra crust/cheese pizza which very much looked like a traditional Chicago Deep Dish. The taste of the crust though wasn’t the classic buttery crust you’d get on the traditional deep dish…more like thick bread which isn’t usually what I’m going for on pizza of any kind. The sauce was super good though!

My wife thought the gluten-free was satisfying for what it was, though it had been so long since she had had a deep dish pizza that she couldn’t quite compare to the real thing. She did think the bottom of the crust in the middle was a little mushy but kudos to them for home making gluten-free dough and providing a legitimate experience to those with that diet, as opposed to so many restaurants that use frozen gluten-free dough.

The small pizzas, by the way, are actually quite large. It was way more than us little people could eat. (Especially getting 2, one gluten free and one regular.)

In the end I would have preferred the standard Deep Dish with the butter crust as that’s really what Chicago is all about whereas the stuffed crust is a little gimmicky and doesn’t offer...

when we first moved into the neighbourhood years ago i checked this spot out one night after a very long night of drinking. i didn’t remember much of anything about the few slices i got. so didn’t really go back to check out the food on a normal day.

last week, we picked up some desserts from here and, being a huge fan of flan and finding a lot of terrible ones in this city, i was happily surprised the flan here felt good (and even possibly homemade).

after the great desserts we decided to finally go back to give the pizza a try for real. we ordered some of the thin crust pizza (a plain cheese and the specialty garlic one). the complementary starter bread was decent.

however, sadly the review is mostly for the flavour of the pizzas. especially the cheese one. everything felt very bland from the crust to the cheese and the barely there sauce. never a good sign that i had to pile on salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, parmesan, AND oregano to get some sort of flavour out of the pizza slice. i liked the garlic lover’s pizza a bit more, but not by much. even the pizza sauce on the side didn’t add much taste to anything.

i was still excited to revist the flan, but sadly this time around it was less creamy and sweet, and oddly a little watery. glad the dulce de leche was there to sweeten it up. so all around we had a bunch of misses.

was hoping this place had nice thin crust given its ridiculously close proximity to our home, but sadly not sure i’d come back. maybe to try out the sandwiches.

i will say, the staff was generally nice and attentive, and i felt they were taking close care to understand if people had...