When people think of Chicago, deep dish pizza often comes to mind. But the Windy City is as known for tavern-style pizza and stuffed pizza. Here's how one city is home to three styles and where to try each Chicago-style pizza.
Tori Allen has been part of the restaurant world for more than 14 years, working in Atlanta, Buffalo, Chicago, D.C., Denver, and Los Angeles. She's a proud Buffalo native and current Chicago resident.Depending on who ask, Chicago-style pizza can mean one of two very different things: deep dish or tavern.
Where the deep dish is a multi-pound main attraction, the other respective Chicago pizza is the tavern style, with a light and paper-thin crust cut into small, handheld squares made for sharing at the table. Many say that deep dish and stuffed varieties are designated for tourists, while Chicagoans prefer the tavern style. However, most pizzerias in town make both Chicago-style pizzas, and the ones we spoke with said their sales are evenly split.
One thing that Chicago can agree on is that sausage is the official pizza topping. Chicago’s history with sausage dates back to the meatpacking and butchering industries that were big here in the 1800s, which is whyDeep dish is the image that comes to mind when people say Chicago.
“When you bite into the stuffed pizza, you get a distinctive flavor of the ingredients, like biting into layers as opposed to a whole mixture of ingredients, like you do with deep dish,” says Dave Howey of Nancy’s Pizza.Rocco Palese and his wife Annunziata introduced stuffed pizza in 1971 after immigrating to Chicago from Italy. The style quickly grew in popularity, and Nancy’s remains king, with locations throughout Illinois and now across the country.
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