I'm particularly excited about Tuesday's itinerary, May 4th. According to Kenton Larsen's Infotainment blog, we are having a "Chicago welcome" pizza party in the hotel from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. - Free!
My only concern is if the pizza party is in fact a deep dish pizza party. I am on a quest to find Chicago's best deep dish pizza party. Nothing will stop me on my quest to find the most delicious, most tasty, and most deep Chi-keh-go pizza. OK, maybe I will stay in the constraints of the hotel vicinity as this little expedition could get out of hand!
So I've been researching online, trying to find the best deep dish hot spot and this is what I found.
Internet recommendations: (based on Google searching "best place to go for deep dish pizza chicago")
1) Lou Malnati's Pizzeria - 439 N Wells St. = estimated travel time 3 mins., 0.84 miles
2) Giordano's Pizza - 730 N Rush St. = est. travel time 1 min., 0.35 miles
3) The Original Gino's East of Chicago - 162 E Superior St. = est. travel time 1 min., 0.34 miles
4) Pizzeria Due - 619 N Wabash Ave. = est. travel time 57 secs, 0.26 miles
5) Pizzeria Uno - 29 E Ohio St. = est. travel time 1 min., 0.43 miles
Fairfield Inn, 216 E Ohio St. recommendations: (based on the person who answered the phone)
1) Giordano's Pizza
2) The Original Gino's East of Chicago
3) Pizzeria Uno
"You hit one of these places, you're a happy man," says Sul from the front desk of the Fairfield Inn. I think I'll take his advice.
And finally, a recommendation from a Chicago native:
"Oh man, you need to go to Gino's East. They have the best deep dish pepperoni pizza - it doesn't get more Chicago than that," says Jackie Te, 26-yr. old. registered nurse.
The Pizza Plan:
Logistics - after getting a hold of a Chicago map, I will be mapping out the five different locations for ease of locating them later when we're on foot. I will also bring a GPS device and go on a little pizza geocaching adventure. My team and I (and yes, I will need a pizza team for this one) will consume pizzas from all five locations. A deep dish pizza can serve up to four people or one hungry Neil Babaluk. Our team will be traveling on foot.
$$$ - will they take my 'par' Canadian dollars? I don't think so. So I will be allocating up to US$100 for my expedition, whatever it takes to eat pizzas from five different locations. As for everything else, there's always Mastercard.
Health considerations - none.
Fun factor - high.
And until I actually have pictures holding one of these babies, I'll leave you with an image that would make you wish you were going on this trip with us...
GINO'S! The pizza is so good and it's definitely well liked. You can sign the walls with your own graffiti! When I was there, the waitress showed us Oprah's signature as well as Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst. I'll try to find you the photo.
ReplyDeleteThis looks delish! definitely going next year!
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