Originally Posted by Sweet Willie
There was just a FT Do at this restaurant last night. I had gone to Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Co when I was kid 20+ years ago, hated it then, and hated it last night.
Let me describe the pizza pot pie. They take a small crock like bowl, the kind you would serve French onion soup in, put mediocre cheese in the bottom, then add a sauce that tastes like it is from a jar, the sausage is tiny bits and does not taste good almost like hamburger, then put the "Sicilian-style" dough w/no flavor on top of the crock, then bake. When the waiter comes out, he flips the crock upside down so that the dough is now on the bottom and the rest of the "pizza" falls into the cup shaped baked dough.
UGH! do not go to this place unless you have tried the other pizza places listed above and really want to try a self promoted w/o good reason restaurant.
I believe I reviewed this place in the Chicago Idine review thread. I went to the Rolling Meadows location. The greatest thing about the place is that you got miles, but there are so many Idine places I'd rather visit, including Frank Pizzeria. (In my review, I said that place was a dump, but the pizza was decent.)
I agree that the appetizer bread was good.
the pizza bowls were awful. As Willie described, it fails the taste test, and it fails my value test miserably. That pizza bowl is so small and it costs just under $20. I rather get a HUGE Giordano's pizza for that price, and it would taste infinitly better, and you get like 10X as much food.
So.. I would go farther that Willie and say avoid this place at all costs. There are so many more pizza places here in Chicago that I rather go to that this. I'd even try unknown places over this place.