coalfire

with all of these thin crust pizza reviews of late, it's pretty easy for me to rank a new place. i gave an order of my favorites recently. the strengths ofcoalfirewere the quality toppings and burnt crust flavor, but a lot of that came across a little muddled. i'd saycoalfirewould rank in between la madia and sono wood fired. the service and atmosphere were nice touches as well. i'm giving them 3.5 out of 5 pearls.

... decided on finding a restaurant featuring neapolitan style pies.  coalfire does so, but with their own signature twist.  rather than using wood, they fire their oven with coals.  

windy city pizza club visits coal fire. i went tocoalfirepizza along with the windy city pizza club. i had read reviews from chicago magazine before coming on sunday night and those reviews were mostly right. the pizza is amazing. the best part: the crust! the crust was burnt, but not overly burnt...just right.

at coalfire, they find the right amount of cheese, and fresh ingredients and put it together so that nothing is over bearing on the taste buds. not only was the pizza good, the service was awesome. our waitress, amy (i think that was her name) was on top of her game and the owners were nice. the atmosphere, though did not have any tv's, was cool with a lot of sweet artwork.

if i had to change anything, i would not charge extra for fresh mozzarella and probably not let people take out because of the high moisture content of the pizza. you really need to come intocoalfireand experience it first hand out of the oven to get the real experience and of course, great service.

best thin crust in the city. this place has the tastiest thin crust neapolitan style pizza i have had outside of italy.
i have been to spacca napoli and sapore de napoli and both of them do this style very well and they turn out some great pies butcoalfirejust does it better.
that is my humble opinion. if you like this style of pizza with a great crust, a little char, and top notch ingredients, you will not go wrong here.