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Lou Malnati's: Home of Flawless Deep Dish
My fam from out of town will place an order for a 1/2 cooked pizza which they can pickup, freeze and reheat in a home oven. It's as close to the real deal and better than the pre-packaged ones in store.
Lou Malnati's: Home of Flawless Deep Dish
o hey look at this:
http://www.urbanspoon.com/f/2/146/Chicago/Pizza-places
Lord knows how Lou mal's got that high at least it is below my beloved Pequod's
Lou Malnati's: Home of Flawless Deep Dish
@valgalpal: I have forgotten more about pizza/culinary arts than you know.
My treatise is not something I pulled out of my ass I know a large contingent of people who really dislike Lou Mal's it's really not that good!
Lou Malnati's: Home of Flawless Deep Dish
Lou Malnati's is my family's favorite pizza deep dish pizza. My wife and I started going to the one on North Wells about 15 years ago when we were still dating and now we take our kids there. We've probably been there over 100 times and I don't think we've ever had a bad pizza. We've had pizza from all over the city and suburbs but for us LM's is our favorite. (Side note: the Malnati salad is also excellent. Definately give it a try. I now look forward to that almost as much as the pizza!)
And finally to Timothyrows: Get real.
Lou Malnati's: Home of Flawless Deep Dish
Timothyrows: I don't know what you know about Chicago pizza, but as I was born and raised on Chicago pizza, I've never heard of Pequod's or Piece. Might as well be Cumquat's. Chicago's pizza? You must be from New York or outerspace. Lou's is the best. Even Bobby Flay couldn't make a better pizza when he challenged them to a throwdown!
Lou's is awesome and if you pick up a frozen one in any of their storefronts they are great at home...so I imagine the ones you get shipped are pretty good too. And their jingle is pretty catchy...1 800 loutogo...
Lou Malnati's: Home of Flawless Deep Dish
Adam, I hope you don't mind but I need to borrow the Truth Hammer for a minute.
@Timothyrows: While there are good arguments that can be made that some pizzerias in Chicago offer a better product than Malnati's (though not for a place that uses canned sauce and processed everything like Chicago's Pizza), you are simply dead wrong that Lou Malnati's meets any definition of a tourist trap. Malnati's has 30 locations, 25 of which are located in the suburbs. Last time I checked, tourists were not flocking to places like Mount Prospect. And of the five in Chicago, only 2 are in areas that are even close to major tourist traffic, but even those two (South Loop and River North) are pretty far off the typical tourist's path.
You might not be a fan of Malnati's, but when a chain has 30 restaurants, most of which are never seen by tourists, that's called a Chicago institution, not a tourist trap.
Lou Malnati's: Home of Flawless Deep Dish
Please don't take this the wrong way, but I believe I speak for a number of people in my following treatise on Lou Mal's: "Home of Flawless Deep Dish" Wow that is a statement. Lou Mal's is more likely the home of a flawless tourist trap. Now its one thing to be a tourist trap and produce a great product and another thing to produce a marginal one. Lou Malnati's definitely falls into the latter category. There is simply much better Chicago pie out there. If you want to keep it close to the above locale head to Pequod's or Piece or even...Chicago's pizza. Yea i went there even Chicago's is better. Lou Mal's crust and bottom of the pie comes out soggy, the sausage is overcooked, and the sauce easily communicates itself as unsubstantial. While Lou Mal's is a great piece of branding with a history so delightfully indigenous to Chicago a native wouldn't be caught dead there.
Lou Malnati's: Home of Flawless Deep Dish
I just ran across this posting and had to comment! I love Lou's pizza!!! It is the best I have ever tasted, bar none. I moved to SC many years ago and one of the one million things they do not have here is anything that resembles a true pizza. Dominos and Pizza Hut rocks for these folks. I used to brag about how great Chicago pizza (and the city itself) is, I finally took some friends up for a week of eye opening fun and food. The first place we ate at was Lou's and they have never been the same since (told 'em!). God, I miss ya'll!!!!
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My fam from out of town will place an order for a 1/2 cooked pizza which they can pickup, freeze and reheat in a home oven. It's as close to the real deal and better than the pre-packaged ones in store.