Chicago Pizza Smackdown: Gino’s East vs. Giordano’s
You can’t go to Chicago without trying some of its famous deep dish pizza. It would be like a slight to the city. Like making rude gestures at it. Like a sin. In short, it would just be really bad. So, when I first decided I was going to visit the Windy City, “ eating deep dish pizza ” immediately was put on my list of must-do things. Eating stuffed pizza at Giordano's. I asked around for suggestions on where to go, and I got a whole slew of answers. Chicago certainly has a lot of pizza options. In the end, I decided to try out two of the places that seemed to come up the most in recommendations: Gino’s East and Giordano’s . Each has a long history in Chicago, and each is known for making a killer deep dish pizza. Deep dish, in case you aren’t familiar, is not just a really thick pizza. It’s a really thick, inside-out pizza. I say inside-out because, unlike other types of pizza where it goes crust-sauce-cheese-toppings, deep dish pizza goes crust-toppings-cheese-sauce. An...