Best Chicago-Style Deep Dish Pizza Outside of Chicago?

I've been reading about some of the best deep dish pizzas in Chicago (such as Lou Malnati's), but was wondering where else I could get a terrific Chicago-style pizza. I'm thinking particularly of places I travel to (or will be soon), including New York City, Washington DC, San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Not much help, but avoid Uno's at all costs. The one on Ohio St. no longer has any connection, other than name, to the bastardized franchised version that has been splashed across the country.

I don't mean this to be a patronizing response - I mean it to be informative. For what it's worth, many Chicago deep dish joints will ship frozen pizzas to any locale. I haven't tried this, but it may be a good alternative to actually visiting the original article.

And, besides, how on earth could any of those OTHER cities have deep dish as good as Chicago pie? (ok, that was a little patronizing. sorry.)

ChgoMike wrote:I don't mean this to be a patronizing response - I mean it to be informative. For what it's worth, many Chicago deep dish joints will ship frozen pizzas to any locale. I haven't tried this, but it may be a good alternative to actually visiting the original article.

And, besides, how on earth could any of those OTHER cities have deep dish as good as Chicago pie? (ok, that was a little patronizing. sorry.)

I'm from Boston, so believe me, I'm used to being patronized nearly every day.

We have no good deep dish here in Beantown, so perhaps I will look into ordering a few from a place or two in Chicago. I saw that one pizza shipped from Lou Malnati's is just under $40, which seems pretty high, but if it's that good, maybe I'll do that.

But I'm definitely interested to hear about deep dish in other cities. I'll be in NYC shortly, so I'd love to find one there.

Maybe this will help, too:

http://www.sliceny.com/

hiddenboston wrote:I saw that one pizza shipped from Lou Malnati's is just under $40, which seems pretty high, but if it's that good, maybe I'll do that.

It's not that good; save your money. In fact, if you're prepared to spend $40 on one mediocre frozen pizza, you should scrape together about ten of fifteen pizzas worth (per person), come to Chicago and eat the stuff hot out of the pan. A search of this site will give you more than enough places to try once you get here.

Hope to see you soon,

Buddy

Good question...I have posed that same question on pizzamaking.com , and specifically to SoCal, on Chowhound.com.

Here in CA there are some very good places...Zachary's in the Bay Area (3 locations) and Tony's Little Italy and others in SoCal. I'm including a couple of links for your info:

http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,3228.0.html
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/361089

I'll second the Zachary's rec; they serve a very good Chicago style pizza (though I'll never admit to my friends in the Bay Area).

I have it on good authority that Zachary's has close Chicago ties to the folks that started Edwardo's. (who borrowed liberally from Giordano's).

. . . .and yes, I work for Giordano's.

Crazy story at the Trib's website about a Chicago-area ex-pat in NYC, who opened a deep dish place late last year with his brother . . .

at chicagotribune.com, Christopher Borrelli wrote:Yes, the pizza that many New Yorkers love to claim is not pizza has become one of the most sought-after dishes in lower Manhattan. Actually, only two blocks from Dominique is the heartbeat of the frenzy: a small, tin-roofed, tavernlike storefront named Emmett's, opened in late November by Lake Forest native Emmett Burke, who, at 31, decided to leave behind his stressful life of high finance and introduce New York to the pride of Chicago. Smart wager: Emmett's is so hot right now that, on a Sunday night I put my name in for a table at 5:30 p.m., sat down about 8:30 p.m. and received my handsome (if undistinguished) pizza at 9:30 p.m.

It's true: New Yorkers eating up deep dish

=R=

Saw this on FlyerTalk, and, boy, did it bring the New Yorkers out of the woodwork (where, may I just say, wood-eating worms live) to slam Chicago deep dish pizza --or as they call it, casserole.