Chicago's Best Deep-Dish Pizza, According to Locals - Open Road 

When I drove into Chicago for the first time, I had the joy of this being the very first restaurant I got to eat at. Walked over just after checking in and ordered the lunch special. I am glad I made this choice and that there is a video showing off this gem.

I'm glad you guys made this video! Went to Chicago the first time last year, and I did the right thing and asked the locals where to go for deep dish. Glad it was Pequods!

Amazing footage, man! Especially the cityscapes.

I've been to Chicago a half dozen times and have enjoyed steaks, hot dogs, Italian beef and certainly pizza but have always been busy with work and since I love to pay homage to *_original_* and/or *_oldest_* I often miss a city's very best when I'm on a time crunch. I went to Pizzeria Uno of course and Gino's East before it moved and returned but never made it to Pequod's. After reading lots of positive reviews, this is the first video I've seen. Cool looking joint and all the pies look pretty fantastic for sure.

I’m a proud New Yorker and love our Neapolitan slices, but I can’t hate a Chicago deep dish. Different is never bad it’s just what you’re not used to. Chicago my hats off to you for making such amazing pizza.

I got referred to this place from a local in North Dakota where my grandparents live and went there a few months ago. Loved it you even had the manager sitting in the same place I sat at the beginning of the video. 😂😂😂👍👍👍

Wow. Totally amazing so much topping???? The sausage mushroom and green peppers is out of this world!!!?

Open Road Series is fantastic!

I am from New York and I like NY style thin crust so I can fold the slice but if I am really hungry I love Chicago Style Deep Dish pizza.

Great review. Might fly to Chi-town just to try this place. Looks amazing. Love what they do with the crust.

Absolutely love the deep dish from Pequod's!

Was there on Thursday. It truly was amazing

Wow, on my Bucket list. Never into Chicago style Pizza, but this I must have.

"This is pequod, arriving shortly at LZ"

Love that crust my favorite pizza place makes deep dish like this when I go to Chicago I’ll go there for sure

Looks amazing. I was waiting for an actually taste test.

This makes new york pizza looks delinquent

OMG my mouth is watering!

I'd love to see something on Kuma's while you're in Chicago or Smoque. Those are my two fav spots aside from Dim Sum.

Looks great!

Living in Chicago, it's hard to pick the best, Pequod's is definitely in the top 3, maybe #1, there's just sooooooo much unreal pizza here!!!! If you take ANYONE there from out of state, they lose their mind, at how good it is.

I love this pizza. I’ve only eaten it once when I was visiting my sister in Chicago. I want more!!!

I was going to stage a protest if it wasn't Pequod's. Best deep dish of all time!

There's a sort of evolution with this, from Burt Katz, who started Gullivers, then Pequods then finally Burt's Place. All a little different yet similar. The guy who said that people have a "pizza rotation" nailed it. That's a brilliant way to look at it. All you bloody tourists really should try Pequod's, there's a Morton Grove location too, that's a little more towny. It's worth the drive.

That looks fire🔥🔥🔥🔥

As a New Yorker going to Chicago I am very excited

Native Chicagoan, born and raised on the south side, had every pizza there is except there was no Pequods when I lived there. The guy who started Uno's we called Ike and he was a memorable person. I didn't know he was a Malnotti, he wore a big cowboy hat and gave me a free beer when I picked up the the food for the night printers. I was only 18 but those were different days. Lou Malnotti was a real gentleman and his restaurant on Lincoln Ave was a fun place on Friday nights. At any moment some of the Bears, Cubs, or Blackhawks would show up and you could talk to them just like anyone else. If you haven't tried Home Run Inn on the south side, you can't rate them all. Gino's East downtown was great but usually very crowded. Best Pizza in my experience, a place on the near southwest side called Falco's. I once drove from the northwest suburbs to 4200 S. Archer Ave to get 10 Pizzas for a party, the North siders were amazed. I live in Wisconsin for 20 years and they don't even know what a pizza is. Chicago is in my blood and I miss it every day.

I love me some Pequods pizza. I knew right when I saw the thumbnail what it was!

Harp tone at 1:05 is DA BOSS!

I definitely have to ✔ out peaquod's 🍕 because it looks totally delicious!!!!!!

I have never been to Chicago(definitely on my bucket list), so, it is safe to assume that I have never tried authentic DD 'zza. (Does the Hut count?😜😵😲) So anxious to try it!! The one thing that concerned me about the mushroom, peppers, and sausage pie. That would be a LOT of liquid on top of that thing...leaching from the mushrooms and peppers. Doesnt the crust get super soggy? But I ADORE how they lay the cheese, overlapping the borders making the crust...the best part of it!! I'll be in NYC in June...gonna have me some Joe's pizza for sure! But I gotta get myself to Chicago soon after so that it's fresh in my mind and I can make an appropriate comparison! Cheers, all!! Happy eating!!

Was just in Chicago and had a deep dish pizza at Giordano's. The pizza was super delicious

This particular deep dish pizza does indeed seem great.

Watching this while eating bread and lentil soup!!!

I would try that. That looks like a good pizza. Not too keen on the chicago style but I like that crispy crust.

Definitely Giordanos I love it !

In the cold wet, windy winter I bet people crave that deep dish.

Looks excellent I truly wish I could find this in Toronto Ontario Canada Eny one??

I need this in my life.

I recommend Labriola; it's similar to Pequod's but not quite so dark on the crust.

Guys, I can count how many times i've had deep dish in my Chicagoan life. We only eat it once in a while. Most of the time we eat thin crust and its all about the robust Italian sausage and fennely aroma.

Lou Malnatis on Wells! Hands down!

Watching this is an anomaly. How can you have such a skinny manager working in a restaurant that serves Chicago's best deep dish pizza?

Deep dish is my favorite!

I think I’m going to start making Chicago’s deep dish pizza on my show. 🎥🍕

This looks like south of Boston 'bar pizza' with the lacing around the edges and Chicago deep dish had a perfect child 😋

Another great hosting job by the Toyota Camry!

RIP Burt Katz

where I'm from they call that style "Laced" when you get cheese & sauce edging. Scrumptious as long as it's not too burnt

Look, I get that people from outside Chicago are more fixated on deep dish pizza because it is more different from pizza outside of Chicago, but when you say "Chicago pizza" to someone from the Chicago metropolitan area, this isn't what comes into most of our minds. What comes into most of our minds is a particular kind of thin crust pizza that shows like this never seem to want to talk about, and that's really too bad because when I first moved here, it's one of the things that made me fall in love with this part of the country.

Deep Dish Pizza is absolutely magnificent!

Before i die i hope to visit Chicago and try one of these pizzas....

Now _that's_ more like it! I've seen too many "Chicago Deep Dish" videos where they use pepperoni, sauce, cheese, and that's it! I want green peppers, onion, bacon, olives and a few jalapenos too!

I’m going just for this pizza 🍕

If true, I’m positive most locals told you we actually prefer thin crust. Deep dish is for tourists and once/twice a year occasion for locals.

The best!!!

OMG I always loved the burnt crispy cheese that drips off the sides and onto the pizza pan , now they actually made it part of the pie! SWEET MOTHER OF FRAN TARKENTON TAKE ME HOME PEQUODS !

I love the amount of keif in the sauce

I'm traveling to Chicago this fall, and I would like to know which place is best Lou's or Pequods? I'm highly considering just trying both places, but I would love to know what the locals prefer.

💘 deep dish 🍕!

Pequods is hands down my favorite deep dish and pan pizza out there! Malnati’s deep dish is also great but they don’t use pizza sauce, stewed tomatoes.

If only Katz was still around, but Pequod's fucking awesome too

Sheldon u have got to taste the crab Rangoon pizza in Des Moines at Fong's pizza

This better be Pequod's.

Chicago's Pizza on the Northside. Open till 5am 365. As a bonus their pasta is equally good. You won't be disappointed!!

What temp is it baked at? 425?

I"M a Chicago boy,and Salernos on the Fox is the BEST!!!! I judge a good pizza not only when you get it fresh,but how that bigger tastes the next morning for breakfast.Because of course it was so good the night before you can't wait to wake up and hit that sucker in the morning.Make the drive out to St,Charles get the Best and have the make you one to bring back home,you won't be disappointed!! Now I like a good thin crust,but if my back was against the wall and my knuckles were turned out,it would be Salernos on the Fox,a pizza legend.....FO REAL!!

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Pequod's is using Full-Red Pizza Sauce. Can get it on Amazon.

Dear Pequod's, Please open a location in River North or something for all the tourists to go. LP location gets crowded enough :)

makes me homesick

I can feel the skin on the roof of my mouth burning just watching this.

Now I am hungry 😰

I've been to Pequod's. Was good, but didn't blow me away...I actually preferred Lou Malnatis

That sausage pizza looks particularly kind!! 😍

For the most part people from Chicago eat thin crust pub pizza on a weekly. And we probably eat deep dish a couple times a year deep dish is for the people visiting Chicago. The best deep dish 🍕 in Chicago is Lou's or LouMalnatis.

that chicago voice crack tho LMAO

Luv pequads.

One pizza would serve me a week. Gimme!!

I'm eating pizza watching this...

Best Chicago style deep dish pizza I have ever had was Conan's in Austin, TX

YES

3:08 Shia LaBeouf makes a guest appearance !

im hungry now

I don't care for the "What's better" argument. That is B.S. and a waste of time. I do appreciate pizza made with quality ingredients and cooked well. This pizza here looks spot on.

I've NEVER said "fuck I want that deep dish pizza" but FUCK I want that deep dish pizza!

damn damn topping

I have heard of Pequod's but have never tried their pizza

Reminds me kinda of a round version of Detroit pizza

is this as good as lou malnati's? i had lou malnati's next to the sears tower and it was excellent

Its not how most deep dish pizzas are portrayed. Most Chicago style deep dish pizzas just have cheese and sauce, but this has toppings and a bit of character with the burnt crust.

Haven't tried Pequod's, but the person you interviewed didn't seem that thrilled given it was only in his rotation and not his go to spot. Having tried several deep dish pizza restaurants in Chicago and having seen several reviews, I think there is a certain snobbery in the foodie world that says: "anything but Uno's." In your piece there was even some discussion of Pequod's burnt pizza as not corporate. But there is a reason why Uno's became a chain in the first place and spread across the country and that was because it had the best deep dish pizza. They messed a bit with the recipe in recent years (probably trying to reduce the calorie count of its almost deep friend pie dough crust) and expanded their menu until it is almost not a pizza joint, but it is still the standard for folks who go by taste rather than fashion.

that slice of pizza is cold by now man!

yes yes yes my favorite pizza place in the world :D

That looks more like a combination of Chicago and Detroit pizza.

i'd kill for that pizza with the burnt cheese crust

So true regarding “who makes the best” being a very contested subject. But just like what has come to be labeled as fake news in the world of blatantly partisan “journalism” , opinion pieces are also guilty of quoting “facts” under the guise of so-called “expertise”. Your statement re: “3 styles of Chicago deep dish” including Pequods (a clear take-off of Detroit style) and stuffed pizza blatantly excludes what at one time was considered “the other deep dish” as compared to the UNO’s style- namely Gino’s East. And as fed up as I am with them (WAS my favorite for over 4 decades) their original recipe was AMAZING! Yes- so- called corporate management models have destroyed it, but the quality of the original is still echoing in Bartoli’s thanks to Fred’s grandson Steve. If you’re going to “blog” opinions, make sure that you specify that before professing so- called history. We’ve got enough of that going on in our country.

Pequods is mostly crust. The carmelized cheese on the sides is cool. But put your leftovers in the fridge and eat them the next day. You will realize that 95% of what you thought was bland cheese, is actually just straight up 1" thick of dough/crust. A much better option for chicago pizza is Gordianos - its not technically "deep dish", but its the same thickness, and its 90% cheese.

That is a casserole not a pizza. But I want a slice 😂

No thanks....as long as there is a Malnatti’s why would you order PEQUODS?...YUK! Nothing but a glorified Cheese sandwich. Malnatti's cornmeal crust is unbeatable.