"Chicago food" around the country

I thought it might be fun to start a thread on "Chicago food" that is outside the Chicago area...deep dish/stuffed and even thin crust pizza, italian beef/sausage, Chicago hot dogs, whatever...places that do justice to what you can find in and around Chicago.

I'll load up a whole bunch of SoCal places in the next few days, but for now I'll throw out a few obvious ones...Papa Del's pizza in Champaign, IL, Rosati's with numerous Arizona locations, Aurelio's has a couple of outposts in the Las Vegas area.

Your listings can include names and what they serve, but also include addresses, phone numbers, websaite and a review if you can.

Let's see what we can come up with for everyone around the country who has moved away from the Chicago area or travels and needs their "Chicago food" fix!

Chicago Style Pizza:

Zachary's
http://www.zacharys.com



Zachary's Pizza - Oakland
5801 College Ave.
Oakland, California 94618
Just 1 block north of Rockridge Bart Station
Phone: 510-655-6385
Sun-Thur: 11am-10pm
Fri-Sat : 11am-10:30


Zachary's Pizza - San Ramon
3110 Crow Canyon Place
San Ramon, California 94583
Phone: 925-244-1223


Zachary's Pizza - Berkeley
1853 Solano Ave.
Berkeley, California 94707
Phone: 510-525-5950
Sun-Thur: 11am-9:30pm
Fri-Sat : 11am-10:30pm

Chicago Dog Express
600 Cerrillos Rd
Santa Fe, NM 87505
(505) 984-2798

Vienna Beef hot dogs - goes without saying you can get them with green chile.

Wow...somewhat coincidental that the first reply is Zachary's...I've heard it being a Bay Area/Chicago legend for years...and I will be experiencing it this week!

Family is making the 400+ mile trek to the Bay Area Friday for a high school graduation and we're all having Zachary's for dinner afterwards. Altogether now...it's a small world after all.

Good idea but middling execution: Joe Mantegna's (actually his wife's) Taste Chicago joint in Burbank. The dogs are Vienna but nothing else is flown-in authentic.

Taste Chicago
603 N Hollywood Way
Burbank, CA 91505

http://www.tastechicago.biz

>>Brent

Sorry, no exact addresses or telephone numbers, but:

Chicago Pizza
Matsue-shi, Shimane-Ken
Japan

I was very surprised to find a 'Chicago' place referenced when I lived for a year in Japan's second most rural prefecture.

After experiencing the pizza, however, it was Chicago style in name only. Principally, the Al Capone caricature on the box. In fact, after talking to others, I learned that there was no knowledge of a unique Chicago pizza culture. Rather, they chose it for its gangster image of the 1920s.

Still, an odd, international choice in a rural capitol of 70,000.

As for the pizza? Well, thin-crusted , but not a short-dough style. I think it was a puffy, soft-style dough with minimal cheese and a sweet sauce. I only ever had it delivered so it was probably not at its optimal. And I was frankly willing to overpay for the nostalgia of pizza. And overpay I did, to the tune of $30-$40 a pie. There obviously was a premium for this different-seeming food.

And it was different-seeming even to me. Popular toppings included corn, shrimp and octopus.

Can't find the pic, but there's a Chicago Pizza just off Nanking Road in Shanghai.

CJ Chicago Pizza off Nanjing Rd I think. Decent, but not the real thing by any means. I acutually preferred the italian restuarant pizzas when I was there, much more authentic. First thing I ate when I got back to Chicago from Shanghai, was pizza and wings. Then we'd move to Italian beef and as much mexican food we could get.

Poppa Coronofoulos Gyros & Chicago Style Deli
4426 E Buckeye Rd
Madison WI 53716
(608) 222-0830

Its not near the campus or downtown so you need a car, but this place always hit the spot when I was fiending for beef, Chicago dogs and puff's in my college days. Its not the greatest but ive had worse in the city so it gets the job done.

Portillo's
8390 La Palma Ave
Buena Park, CA
714.220.6400

Michael's Italian Beef
1111 Se Sandy Blvd
Portland, OR 97214

Have eaten there a couple of times...not great, but pretty good for those times when the craving strikes.

When I first visited Tony Roma's in Miami as a child, I swear their menu listed "Hackney's Onion Loaf"

They still list an Onion Loaf, as a TR's Signature Item, but nothing in their history about a link to Hackney's
http://www.tonyromas.com/files/history.asp

Fontano's Chicago Subs

Denver, CO 80202
1617 California St.
Phone: 720-956-1100

Lakewood, CO
12095 W. Alameda Pkwy
80228

related to the chicago fontano's - serving italian beefs and dogs

Chicago Pizza
4969 Ch Queen-Mary, Montreal, QC H3W 1X4
Phone: 514.739.4444

Haven't been there. Yet. So I can't verify...

Geo

I've actually found a chicago style spot for almost every city Ive spent a period of time living in and this thread sparked memories of Mel's Hot Dog's in Tampa.

They are even in the Vienna Beef Hall of Fame and the hot dog writers association is known for holding its inductees to the highest standards, so at least you know these dogs arent juiced with HGH.

Mel’s Hot Dogs
4136 Busch Blvd
Tampa, Florida 33617

ab wrote:Fontano's Chicago Subs

Denver, CO 80202
1617 California St.
Phone: 720-956-1100

Lakewood, CO
12095 W. Alameda Pkwy
80228

related to the chicago fontano's - serving italian beefs and dogs

-and on a comical note - There was a Pizzaria Uno in Lahore, Pakistan. I had to rub my eyes, but it was there.

ab wrote:-and on a comical note - There was a Pizzaria Uno in Lahore, Pakistan. I had to rub my eyes, but it was there.

Pizzaria Uno, or Uno's American Grille?
I wouldn't set foot in the latter in any country, after what they've done to our beloved recipe.

I don't suppose the Lahore shop has that nice slab of porky sausage over the top either, does it?

JoelF wrote:

ab wrote:-and on a comical note - There was a Pizzaria Uno in Lahore, Pakistan. I had to rub my eyes, but it was there.

Pizzaria Uno, or Uno's American Grille?
I wouldn't set foot in the latter in any country, after what they've done to our beloved recipe.

I don't suppose the Lahore shop has that nice slab of porky sausage over the top either, does it?

Interesting enough, they have all these awesome spiced beef sausage replacements for sausage and pepperoni - I brought home a coupon sheet from the pizza hut out there that had numerous beef and chicken sausages and pepperoni-type replacement toppings.

I'm pretty sure it was a regular Pizzeria Uno.

Also - Murphy's Red Hots are in Japan, at least according to their menu. They have a couple chicago-dog locations out there.

Pizzeria Uno's franchise Uno Chicago Grill has two locations here in Korea.

Pizza Hut, a couple years ago, had a dreadful "Chicago Dish" pizza. Anyone heard of it? I bought one from their Saipan location, I nearly asked for a refund it was so bad.

I found another imitation of Chicago style pizza in a Sbarro's in Manila. Served stone cold.

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Azteca tortilla chips(made in Chicago) are sold everywhere here in Korea.

Then there's Dan Ryan's Chicago Grillwith two locations in Hong Kong, one in Taiwan and one in Singapore. They serve Vienna Beef products.

A small ice cream shop (Big Dipper) in Saipan used to serve Vienna Beef hotdogs.

The Portillo's branch in Buena Park, right near Anaheim, is amazing. No difference at all from the Chicago locales. I see myself making the trip from LA quite frequently. They need to open more up in California ASAP.

8390 La Palma Ave
Buena Park, CA
714.220.6400

Dan Ryan's Chicago Grill is in Hong Kong in the Pacific Place mall. Kind of "eh" as far as Chicago food, but if you're ever in need of an American-style sports bar where you can watch a Bears game while you're there, this is your spot.