If your NY-style slice doesn't stay up under its own weight when held up, your making the pizza wrong... Any true GOOD NY-pizza maker will tell you this. This guy went out on purpose to find poorly made "limp" slices instead of proper ones that can be held just by the crust and still stay up, supporting its own weight with the crispiness.
I'm a Chicago guy who's been to NY many times. That pizza is mediocre at best. Any my pizza is Not deep dish. It's REAL thin crust; cut into squares. Fuckin crunches with Every bite. Stop with the New York Nonsense.
@@thebigdawgj imagine going to sbarro (ny style chain pizza restaurant, like lous is a chicago deep dish chain) and thinking its representative of new york style and using it as evidence that someone is objectively correct in saying new york style is bad, lous is good but its not the be all end all of chicago style pizza
I'm just thankful to live in a country where we can argue which city has better pizza. I love both cities and both styles of pizza. Good pizza is good pizza no matter how you hold it.
How the hell you gonna judge a pizza and not even hold it right you fold, wait better yet let me show you a diagram Do this \/ Not this _/ it's not that hard
That isn't a pizza. You don't make a pizza out of cornbread in a skillet! Also it's pretty simple, if you don't want to fold the pizza then use another hand to support it you flaming simp! It has a crust on the bottom you can touch that and be fine.
Think of all the different food chains across the country that try to mimic Chicago deep dish. Now think of all the places across the US trying to mimic a Chicago Brat. Now think of all the cities that try to mimic any food made in New York. I rest my case. Chicago has the best Deep Dish, the best Hot dogs, the best Sandwich's, the best food in the USA PERIOD!!!!!!
I visited Chicago 6 years ago and the agent that help sell us our house kept insisting we eat at your place. So after a chill morning museum visit, I drove around and saw your location on Google. I never had deep dish pizza like THIS and my family was not disappointed. Still one of the best I've eaten and I'm old!! Wish you were in Florida.
Everyone grows up with the food they ate as children having a special place in their heart. It's understandable a pizza that's vastly different might seem a little foreign to someone who isn't used to it. I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, and I remember my first taste of deep dish, it was a little bit strange. Get the right brand (there are others but Lou Malnati's makes one of the best!) and Jon Stewart just might find that he likes it!
Something people from Chicago or wherever need to understand about New York: They don't care about your city, your buildings, your food, whatever. Get over it.
There's room for more than one great city for pizza in the world. I love Chicago Pizza (especially Lou Malnati's - seriously guys, the "Lou" is a great pizza as well as your sausage and mushroom on butter crust). But there's always room for the other great city for pizza: New Haven, Connecticut. Yeah, that's right. I said it. People who yammer on about New York being the origin of pizza in America need to take a trip up I-95 and try a Frank Pepe pizza from the coal-fired oven that's still there to this day.
Why did Frank Sinatra send his driver to Sally's in New Haven when appearing in NYC to pick up pizza? Because even reheated it was better than New York Pizza...
Joeys in Queens is decent because of the sesame seeds in the crust but nowhere in New York, not the city and not upstate, makes pizza that comes anywhere close to Chicago pizza. Thin crust or deep dish, Chicago does it better. Bagels, however, now New York’s got the bagels, and the cold cuts and the better city overall but New York does not have better pizza. 🤷🏼♀️😊
During my first and only time in Chicago (Rosemont) I went to this amazing deep dish pizza place. The pizza was great! I went twice, in fact! Very good. I do like flat pizza too but it was a different experience! I'd never had real deep dish pizza before.
I worked in Rosemont. I’m guessing you went to Giordano’s, as they have a very prominent location. My friend, if you ever go back, please try Lou’s or Gino’s East. Giordano’s is ok, but it’s missing the cornmeal, butter crust that makes it “real” Chicago deep dish. You will love it.
I like the stuffed pizza at Lou's however , could somebody please explain why chicago cuts their thin crust pizzas into tiny little toddler sized squares>?
For increased dramatic effect he may as well of added a black & white filter and an obnoxious infomercial announcer saying: "Oh Noo! Has this ever happened to you?!.."
I like all kinds of pizza, Napoli's woodoven, thin St Louis crust, some NY pizza but Chicago deep dish pies, call them what you want are the most unique dishes of the pizza genre and Lou Malnalti's of Chicago is the best in the city today. Anyone that say's they don't like it, has never tried it and are just talking shit our of their pie hole. I'd prefer to live in NYC but would order in from Malnalti's.
i kinda agree with stewart, but he was talking about stuffed pizza. deep dish and stuffed pizza are different. usually, stuffed pizza has a lot of bad sauce on it. "lasagna loaf" is an accurate description. btw i live a block from lou malnati's in lincolnwood. lou's for life!
oh and that crust on a stuffed pizza! it's so bland and dry! it's not chewy, crunchy, or crispy! when you bite into it, it cracks into an unpleasant combination of rocks and sawdust. i only eat giordano's when it's free.
Justinjale As a native NYer and repeat Chicago visitor, I'd have to say Lou Malnati's is pretty much the best example of Chicago-style deep dish pizza there is. I love both NY and Chicago styles for different reasons.
I would expect that you would like it, considering California's taste in pizza, Ham & Pineapple on a Sourdough Crust? Are you serious? When you don't know what Pizza is... Quit while you are ahead...
Uh, I don't eat ham. (Or red meat in general.) Or pineapple (I don't like fruit on my pizza unless its a dessert pizza.) I prefer when there's chicken on my pizza.
It's the sourdough crust that makes California pizza whacky. Of course my ultimate favorite is a Frank Pepe's White Clam Pizza... Fresh Clams, Grated Mozzarella & Pecorino Cheese, Olive Oil, Garlic, and Oregano, cooked in a coal fired brick oven...
PurpleSpaceApe What does a Koala know about Pizza? You mean that greasy sloppy shit you fold in NYC is supposed to be the best pizza in the world? Tastes like Little Caesars to me. I'm willing to bet you've never tried Lou's, or you'd be eating your words like Jon Jon.
Bullsfan2008DR Like Jon Stewart said, '' Your pizza is a swimming pool for rats''. Let me tell you something, I live in New Jersey and go to New York very often. Best pizza i have ever had? Lombardi's pizzeria on 32 Spring St. Had that place not been around, Chicago pizza would have never been discovered. So keep eating your disgusting, over sauced, no cheese, shitty pizza.
Have lived in and loved Chicago for 20 years now, but a proper New Yorker knows how to fold the NYT on a crowded subway and where to pinch a slice on the crust for maximum enjoyment and minimal--well mess. First thing we do on arrival back to NYC is to seek out a slice--comfort food that is in our dna, like a continued subscription to the NYT. Best pizza in Chicago hands down: Spacca Napoli. Not to ignite a firestorm, but a good bagel in Chicago is an oxymoron.
Both that Chicago pizza and the New York pizza look delicious! If I'm ever in Chicago I'll go there. I was in NYC twice, but never got floppy New York pizza. I must try real NY and real Chicago pizza!
My wife works for Lou Malnatis...We Love the pizza and she loves her job best restaurant that she has ever worked for..We love you too John Stewart so try Lous pizza you will change your mind..WE PROMISE!!
As a foreigner, I hold a perspective that's out of the box. First of all, Malnati didn't even hold the pizza properly, so he is disqualified from the game. The picture Jon Stewart displayed was an exaggerated deep dish pizza, so his opinion doesn't count either. Deep dish has a better taste than NY pizza, but it isn't the answer to "Which one is a better Pizza?", since deep dish isn't technically a pizza, it's a whole new dish that was inspired by pizza. They both are good, but comparing them as "which one is a better pizza" would be like comparing two different measurement units.
Way to go malnatis!!! New York style pizza is tasty especially on the go but Chicago style is king in my book! Wish I was dining at pequads right now!! Lol!
They purposely undercook the pizza by the slice. Then re-heat in the oven when you order it. The guy purposely didn’t reheat his pizza so it would be like this.
Lou's deep dish is really a masterpiece. Recently, however, the sausage has turned into that "occasionally find unchewable gristle" sausage which turns me off the whole thing. Usually this happens when a restaurant chain grows from three to five or more units and gets a new sausage vendor who just doesn't give two fucks about trimming gristle. The next step down the ladder is finding bone bits, but at least that hasn't happened here yet.
+goldenage Damn Straight! In the 70's I was stationed in Idaho where the best pizza was at Pizza Hut... On the way home I stopped in Chicago and had one of those tomato sauce casseroles and all it did was make me drive faster to get back to the land of Frank Pepe, Sally's, & Modern....
I'll put you on the list as soon as I can find it on a map. "Some of the best" aka not the best. Subway rats eat better pizza than New Haven makes. I can go on ...
Lou, I wish you could franchise, but I completely u understand why you won't. God Bless you and YOUR deep dish pizza. I say YOUR because the pretenders are many, and the pretenders are WRONG.
Goodness we need proper pizza in Australia. We need this! I spend $60 plus on Domino's recently and it was the worst, a horrible experience. My supreme was fishy, like anchovies had been scraped off and my beautiful nyc range pepperoni tasted like the meat had been re-washed and re-used.
Lou Malnati's makes not only the best deep dish pizza but their thin crust is unbeatable! I have yet to find a thin crust pizza in New England that even remotely resembles Chicago thin crust. I never knew pizza could be floppy until I came to NY. My first piece ended up with the toppings in my lap! A crispy crust cut into squares is where it's at!
Marc, Totally excellent! I'd love to see in person Jon's face when he actually eats a Lou Malnati's Deep Dish Pizza. He'll love it like my family has since the 70's.
+Mark J Frankel The 70's was the last time and only time I tried that deep dish swimming pool for rats... All it did was make me drive faster to get back to New Haven CT for a Frank Pepe Clam Pizza...
you can find NY pizza anywhere and it all tastes the same. Chicago pizza is so unique that this can only be found in Chi-Town. Chicago is superior by far.
I have family from both NY and Chicago. I live in Seattle. I like all sorts of pizza, so long as it's prepared well. Lou Malnati's is excellent, as are several hole-in-the-wall NY joints I've tried. We've got a local "Chicago Style" pizzeria called Kylie's here in Seattle that is also phenomenal. Also, shout out to our local NY Pizzeria Topolino's. Good food is good food. But, I agree with Posi Cat, the food you grew up with will always have a special place in your heart.
Next time I’m back in Chicago I’m going to visit your beautiful Field museum, say hi to Sue, hop onto a river tour and look at your beautiful architecture, then stop in to your beautiful restaurant and have some of your not-pizza, pizza. Because you have a sense of humor.
I still love New York style pizza the most, but this is a seriously good piece of marketing. I laughed hard at "little limp." Good stuff Lou Malnati's!
Start your Chicago pizza experience with their medium "thin crust sausage only, just right" as they call it. Don't be temped to put veggies on it. You will then know first hand what a true Chicago pizza tastes like. You will thank me.
Nothing on this planet, I repeat NOTHING, comes close to the Chicago Classic at Lou's. I'm from California. I will admit, NYC has some good joints. Patzeria near Broadway and Best Pizza in Brooklyn is legit too. But Lou Malnati's is second to none.
And so, the peace was made between the Stewart's and the Malnati's. They feasted together on Malnati's pizza from his sweet homeland of Chicago. John gave praise to his new friend Marc and his mighty pizza pie. John proclaimed," I have seen the light, and now I want to cry!"
Had both. New York pizza beats whatever I had at his restaurant any day. I have to sit and eat that stuff. New York pizza can travel and all you need is a paper plate and napkin.
