The pizza Chicago is most well-known for is its deep-dish pizza. The pizza that looks more like a pie than a cracker with sauce and cheese is most popularly attributed to restaurants such as Pizzeria Uno, Gino's East and Lou Malnati's. While the serving style may seem similar, each restaurant gives its own flair to the pizza with a different recipe for the sauce and for the crust.
Some restaurants make a twist on the deep-dish pizza by stuffing the pizza with more ingredients. While in essence this merely makes the deep-dish pizza even deeper, it is a favorite among people who like their ingredients baked inside instead of on top. Giordano's and Edwardo's are well-known stuffed pizza restaurants. Some of the most popular ingredients stuffed between layers of cheese are spinach, sausage and mushrooms.
While many Chicagoans are traditionalists when it comes to their pizza, specialty pizza restaurants are seeing an increase in traffic. Restaurants such as Piece Brewery & Pizza or Chicago Pizza & Oven Grinder Co. offer a different kind of pizza for those who don't want to stick with the traditional fare. Piece has specialty thin crusts, such as New Haven style or white pizza. Chicago Pizza & Oven Grinder offers a pizza pot pie -- pizza ingredients baked into a small pot-pie dish, with the cheese on the bottom, so when you flip the dish over, the cheese lands on top like a traditional pizza.
