Windy City Pie — Restaurant in Seattle

(Veg/Vegan review, LONG) I've been going here a while, a few things:

First off, for deep dish you can't beat it- but please offer us veg folks an alternative to Spicy or Make It Yourself. This is the best deep in the city otherwise! You can't beat those salads either. The tl;Dr? For vegan go to cycle dogs or uni district, for tavern style go to Mainstay. For deep dish? go here, nobody compares.

Apple/Google pay would be nice, minor issue really.

OK, now my main beef or rather lack thereof:

Windy, please, please partner up with Cycle dogs. I love the idea of your vegan tavern pie but it's a big miss for the price, you can do so much better and they can show you how.

Turn that Miel into a buffalo chikn pizza using Rebellyous Chiken. Hit it with cycle dogs vegan ranch, or use field roast sausages with fennel. Seattle is no stranger to good vegan pies and you don't have to be a specialist, just reach out to them and forge partnerships.

There's nothing really preventing a vegan deep dish either, but I digress (it's not so much about the cheese, to be honest) but I'd settle for some compelling vegetarian options.

One more thing, the tavern pies aren't like I know them. Need a crispier almost cracker like crust, then more sauce up top, it's not quite a flatbread but there's valuable lessons from that flatbread place in Ballard or Mainstay provisions.

And let me be clear; the mainstay provisions 7-8$ flatbread is destroying you guys here. Its no contest, this left my taste buds pleased enough but hurt the wallet & left me wanting to go around the corner instead for the marinara they got.

I want to like you, I have many reasons, but between the cost, tight availability, and the catering mostly to carnivores, it's just hard not to order Mario's or pagliacci on a lazy night (and I really dislike their crusts!!!)

Until then, this is a top tier craving quencher that falls short on almost everything else (those salads though, I'm Serious that stuff is good,...

i got a build your own pan pizza with red sauce, mozzarella, olives, charred olives, and mushrooms

was interested to try this a few years after i got one in chicago on the good side, i thought the pizza was quite hefty. it had real depth to it - as the pan went pretty deep - so that was nice

On the negative side, there clearly wasn't enough cheese on this pizza. While it tasted fine, there really wasn't any kind of cheese pull when separating slices from each other, and it just felt quite lacking as a part of the overall taste profile of a slice. Real deep dish pizza should have enough cheese that slices are difficult to pull apart, and I saw basically none of that here

Probably the biggest negative here was the sauce. Firstly, there was way too much of it, and secondly, it just felt slathered on, like it didn't bake properly. It felt like someone had baked the full pizza and then added the sauce on top. It was still liquidy, chunky, and basically falling off the pizza. In addition, I wasn't a huge fan of the taste - it tasted like someone had poured tomato soup on a slice of pizza

Also, the toppings did not bake well into the pizza at all - they were basically in the sauce and had no real welding to the crust/cheese of the pizza. The toppings themselves really didn't have much flavor to them either

Lastly, while the bottom crust was fine, the crust around the outside was pure black - which meant it was very chewy and difficult to eat. I did not enjoy eating this part

There was little enough flavor that I practically had to dump red pepper flakes on the pizza to get any kind of a flavor profile - whenever you have to do that with a pizza, it's not a great sign

The price is decent enough - around 17 dollars per person - although I will say one pizza certainly does not 'Feed 4 hungry adults'. Don't fall for that

Overall, I can't call this any more than...

Rarely do I share a experience, but I thought this place really deserved it. My daughter, granddaughter and I had heard from an uber driver that this place was top notch...hmmm, makes me wonder what he's used to! We had spent the morning at the zoo, and at lunch time we decided to give this place a try. It started out not to good... I asked for a light beer, nope, just specialty beers, or, "have you ever heard of Rainer?" It's local and very good" Why yes I have, being I have lived in Washington all my life, (75 yrs). Oh you live here? Yes.... and she walks away... there was only 2 other tables full of guests. We decided what we wanted and tried to get her attention, and after about 10-15 minutes and several other tables seated, she came over to our table. She took our order, and continued on seating people... After a half hour and everyone elses pizza delivered, my daughter asked about where our pizza was, and she said laughingly, "oh it's ready now". My daughter said, "mom, that's been up in the window for awhile". We tried it, and it was not even pee warm! We called her back over and asked her to please just put it back in the oven until it was nice & hot. She went and got some man, so we asked him to please put it back in oven and get it hot, he said it is hot, I told him "no, it's not even close to hot". He took the pizza almost to the kitchen and brought it back and said "THERE"! I stuck my finger in it and said "no, you didn't even warm it up" he just kept saying "I'm not going to argue with you, it's plenty hot! Then he said "I'm still going to charge you for everything"! I said that was fine and I expected no less from an establishment such as his. All in all, I guess it could've been worse, I just don't Know how? Save yourself the trouble and go to a reputable spot, not an uber driver...