Pizz'A Chicago — Restaurant in Santa Clara

I lived in Chicago for ten years and just love true Chicago deep dish pizza. I'm talkin' Lou Malnati's, Pequod’s, or Giordano’s, or Gino's East, etc. I moved to South Bay but still get that craving. While Pizz'a Chicago isn't authentic Chicago deep-dish, it is VERY good and also a great VALUE for what you get so we recommend Pizz'a Chicago. I estimate we've ordered 30 pizzas or more from here over last few years.

Our fav's are the Harry Carry but customize with BBQ sauce, and the veggie style Grant Park, and also Eddie Gaedel with extra shrimp, and the Rush Street for our kids who like meat on the pizza.

Also their salads are fantastic. We always order a couple Greek Salads and Apple Walnut Salads every time we order pizza.

Be sure to order ahead to dine in. We did that before driving over, and after we arrived they served us our two large pizzas within 10 min of our being seated. I don't agree with other reviewers who say service is bad. We find the service to be solid 4 to 5 stars.

I have a comment about others who won't go here because the pizza is not completely authentic Chicago deep-dish Imagine if Pizz'a Chicago served true gourmet Chicago deep dish. That's pie with thickness that comes not from thick airy crust but from a generous (= expensive) layering of "heavy" Italian, extremely tasty ingredients. We're talking about pizza pie so thick and rich that it is almost lasagna (only with delicious pizza flavor). Cost-wise this is about a $50 pizza in a large, and takes ~ 45 min to reach your table. When Pizz'a Chicago starts serving that is when I become their weekly (instead of biweekly) patron, but maybe they would go bankrupt because majority of their South Bay diners wouldn't understand (or recognize) the value of that style of ($50) pizza ! So you see it may not be a great business model for a restaurant to try serving the truly authentic $50+ Chicago deep-dish to the Silicon...

It has the atmosphere of those family owned joints from the 90s. Really great music (sounded like 70/80s, but may be wrong). Can't emphasise enough just how good their tunes were when we went. Stumbled on the place randomly during lunch time so I was surprised at the lack of customers and didn't expect much from the food. We ordered garlic bread with cheese (while hot it tastes like cheesy bread, once cold it tastes more garlicky). The marinara dipping sauce that came with the garlic bread was heated, which was a nice touch. And we ordered The Fridge pizza which was their recommended combination pizza. Their small size is more than enough for two people. Also, the number of slices per pizza size makes sense and is consistent. You know how some places will give you a pizza that randomly has like a gazillion slices that are embarrassingly narrow so that the next size up has supposedly more slices? This doesn't happen here. Good and accurate pizza sizes and number of slices. Toppings were generous and fresh, but this pan pizza was less oily than I'm used to, like the bottom was white... But it tasted pretty decent so we were surprised! I could barely finish one slice let alone two which is a first. So we packed up the rest and had it later as a midnight snack. The restaurant is not the cleanest so I took a star off for that. I don't expect spotless floors at lunchtime, but the table wasn't cleaned properly and had food stuck to it. The restroom was meh. Despite that, it has a cosy atmosphere overall. The Chicago theme and sports related pieces on the wall of the restaurant adds to the quaintness. The jars for the drinks is a cute touch. Prices didn't seem like the cheapest for pizza personally (paid well over 50 for our meal), but for decent pizza it'd be a nice place to go with friends or family on the weekend as a treat. Was a surprise find,...

Pizz’a Chicago This is my kind of place. “I actually felt like I was in a mom and pop diner in old town Chicago back in the 70s” I came in after the lunch rush, the inside is decked out in everything Chicago, “they even got a picture of Sweetness on the wall, if I have to explain that to you...”. They have 70s soul music piped on the radio “let’s get it on, play that funky music white boy. simply fantastic) This place is people friendly I engaged in no less than 2 conversation with patrons and even spoke with a employee for about 15 min “I was tempted to ask Jamie to pull up a chair C;” Alyssa my server was very attentive and offered great suggestions when ordering my food. I ordered a 1/2 Combo subbed Canadian bacon for meat balls and added pineapple throughout the other 1/2 was the Southside. Alyssa also comped me some of their homemade ranch. Ok now for the good part #1. Interior and atmosphere 5 stars +. #2. Service 5 stars ++. #3. The components of the Pizza including the dough is very good, I especially liked the fresh Basil 4 stars. #4. The flavor of the pizza sauce was bland and lacking 1 star. #5. The homemade ranch dressing is legit! 5 stars and made my pizza pop!! #6. Overall flavor of the pizza 3 stars “due to the lack of sauce flavor” but when adding the Ranch it made it...