pequod's pizza

a visit to chicago helped me clarify the basic types of pizza that are lumped into the "deep dish" category. the basic deep dish style is a bowl-style crust, where the bottom and high sides are relatively equal in thickness. another variety adds a layer of dough on top of the cheese - it's called stuffed pizza. finally,panstyle is (like the others) cooked in a pan, but with a thicker crust, shorter walls around the edge, and caramelized cheese around the perimeter.

their menu was manageable with basic bar food along with their famous pizza that sports a “carmelized crust” that seemed to be enhanced by the type ofpanthey used to bake them.

thepanpizza here is kind of a big deal.... need i say more?! 

i am a huge fan of the freshness of the pizza and ingredients they use. specifically with their vegetables which can often times be frozen.  i can always taste the difference between fresh and frozen spinach especially on pizza and theirs is deliciously fresh.  of course, they are famous for the deeppanstyle of cooking their pizzas and it's totally worth the wait for the caramelized cheese crust!  

i have also called to have it delivered and although they get quite busy they stay within the time frame they project and it's always tastes hot and fresh even though i don't live that close.

this is a staple restaurant in chicago. everytime i've visited, i've came back to pequod's. from the caramelized cheese to the atmosphere, it is amazing. i've never had a thin crust here (come on, it's chicago), but thepanpizzas are absolutely divine. 11/10 people would recommend this pizza joint!

i love deep dish. more than the average chicagoan. therefore i will always suggest pequods as the place to go for deep dish. always. the crispy crust is enough to persuade but then you find out about the $5 lunch deal (personalpan& a beer) and life is never the same. seriously stop reading this and go.

read the reviews and made a long schlep up from downtown and thought i was going to get the best deeppanin the city. i think i could have gone to the grocery purchased a can of tomato sauce a little cheese and got the same as i ate. the pizza had little flavor other than tomato sauce and there wasn't much cheese and the crust was burnt. disappointed.

my first chicagopanpizza did not disappoint. a thick delicious pizza takes time develop that delicious crunchy crust edge and pequod's nailed it. the four of us split a large and full caesar salad and none of us felt hunger for most of the day. great service and value!

can't argue with success!. i read about pequod's from the frugal traveler column in the ny times, penned by seth kugel. seth kugel's approach to travel is almost like as an anti-tourist, which means sometimes his recommendations are a bit more trouble than they are worth, like pequod's!

case in point: from my hotel in streeterville (near the navy pier) to the restaurant in lincoln park took almost an hour, since the public transit options were hideous. you could take the butt-in-seat approach, which requires four buses, or the adventurer approach, which comprises a mile walk to the red line, 10 minutes on the train, and then another mile walk to the restaurant. i chose the latter, and besides had to wait an hour at 8 p.m. on a friday evening, since i didn't call ahead. fortunately, there was a cute bakery down the street where i had a sweet and coffee while waiting for the pizza.

the pizza was well worth the two-and-a-half hour investment, and quite a bargain at a tad more than $9 for a 7" personalpanpie with one topping. best in chicago? not sure, but i don't think i have enough time to find out!

get a largepanpizza and you'll be sure to have delicious leftovers. the crust, sauce, and mountains of cheese work together for a fantastic eating experience. yum!

bland, tasteless, greasy dough garbage. attempted to give them a second chance tonight after about six months and i'm yet again disgusted and disappointed. what a waste of money. wilted lettuce that i wouldn't be surprised if it was someone else's before it was mine and the pizza was less than anything i might even consider decent. we live here and eat pizza from every neighborhood. we ordered a thin andpantonight and both sucked!!! i'm sorry but i really realllllllly wanted to like pequods but at giving this a second chance, i'm over it and our family will not be returning. invest in quality ingredients!!! and some serious flavor please!!!

it was the bf's birthday and if anyone knows him, you know he's a pizza and beer kind of guy. one pizza place we both had embarrassingly never been to, is pequod's pizza in lincoln park and morton grove. pequod's is one of the lesser known chicago deep dish joints compared to giordano's and lou malnati's, but they've established a bit of a cult following for their unique crust. pequod'spanpizza features a caramelized crust that is burnt, crunchy, and full of flavor from the other pizza pies that have been baked in the same pan. food menu we began our meal at the lincoln park location with a few beers to help wash down those giant slices of cheesy pizza. admittedly, i was a bit disappointed in the beer selections--i guess i was expecting something a little more exotic than goose island green line or lagunitas a lil' sumpin' sumpin' ale. call me snobby. drink menu in order to offset the intense carb loading that was about to occur, we started out with a large pequod's salad which inclu

$5, 7" personalpanand beer. best pizza and lunch i have ever had!!!

greatpanburnt cheese crust pepperoni pizza. gets crowded take it to go

seated at a both for two, we placed our order for a smallpanpizza with pepperoni. pequod's has blackhawks gear plastered all over the walls, and would probably be a good place to catch a game if you are a fan. the pizza would take about thirty minutes to cook, so i ordered a chimay blue to sip on in the meantime. the chimay blue is a nice belgian strong ale brewed my monks that i have had many times before. the beer list at pequod's as a whole is pretty modest, with the chimay being the only real gem on the list. topped with a generous portion of pepperoni, thepanpizza

windy city pizza club visits pequod's. i went to pequod's pizzeria in lincoln park tonight with windy city pizza club. they took our reservation because we had a large party and honored it with a nice table in the upstairs area. the tables were nice, but the lighting was poor. i suppose the building is just old though. the menu was pretty good with a basic amount of pizza which was expected from places that specialize in making good crust.

i ordered apansausage 10 inch which is a pretty awesome size wise as it feeds 1-2 people with 4 giant slices. i really like burnt crust and this was awesome stuff. they caramelize the crust to a dark brown color and crunchy texture. the pizza itself was good, not great as it had way too much tomato sauce. i really liked the crust and sausage!

obviously, i was with a group of 20 people which usually results in semi slower service, but shouldn't have been this slow. i am not sure if they didn't have enough servers on, but it was pretty terrible. by far the worst service i have ever had at a pizza place. don't get me wrong, our waitress was sweet and nice and helped us out, but it was extra slow tonight. the pizza's took almost an hour to come out, and some pizza's got screwed up in the kitchen and came out even later than that. water service was slow but not important as there were no bus boys on duty.

again, the pizza was definitely good, not great, and our waitress was nice, but the actual service wasn't good. the check actually came out with just a bunch of numbers on it. we had no clue what they stood for until we had it clarified for us. i would go back, but not with a large group.