Postby Sweet Willie
Yesterday, 7:23 am
Kman wrote:
lodasi wrote:
It's the same thing as Pizzeria Uno was 62years ago, but it is not the same thing as the Uno Pizzeria & Grill chain.
And that's a good thing.
it is!! stay far far away from the chain
As a lifelong Chicago resident, I had eaten deep dish pizza at or from Uno on Ohio Street along with Due just up the street dozens of times with pleasure. When I retired and moved to Libertyville, I tried Uno Pizzeria and Grill in Gurnee hoping it would be the same pizza. I was very disappointed. After giving it several more tries, I kind of wrote the place off.
Last year, a friend suggested going there because she liked their flatbread pizza with black olives and onions. She had tried that dish at a number of places and preferred Uno's. I went along and decided to just have a cheeseburger. Well, the burger was terrific. I talked about it so much that we decided to do our own survey of cheeseburgers in the northern burbs.
After trying perhaps a dozen burgers over the course of a year, we listed the now closed Grillhouse by David Burke and Prairie Grass Cafe in Northbrook (where the $16 burgers are half price on Wednesdays) numbers 1 and 2 with Uno at no. 3 just edging Ivovasi's cheeseburger. A large step down were Jake Moran's, Paradise Pup and a number of other chain restaurants. Portillo's stood out in that group as being quite good and a good value.
At an LTH North luncheon, I was chatting about our survey with long time LTH member, jnm123, who couldn't believe that Uno's burger was better than Jake Moran's. The gauntlet had been thrown down! We agreed to meet at Uno and after just a few bites, Jay agreed with me.
I don't mean to hijack this thread into a burger discussion, I'll just say I agree with Sweet Willie, if you want good deep dish pizza, "...stay far, far away from the chain" but you may want to go for the burger.