Goode and Fresh

My aunt recommended this place for pizza and broasted chicken. Has anyone else been there?


Goode and Fresh Pizza Bakery
1336 Waukegan road
Glenview, IL 60025
847-724-0520

Both the chicken and pizza have been very OK the couple of times we've ordered out from there. My wife gets their pizza fairly regularly for her school, and everyone enjoys it.

Goode and Fresh is my favorite close by pizzeria. It is not a distinctive as Burt's, but it has a rather sweet, somewhat cakey crust and they are very generous with toppings. It is my favorite pizza in Glenview (never forgetting that Morton Grove *is* our next-door suburb), but G&F delivers.

ok, we'll give it a try!

We order this in all the time at work.

The pizza is very reliable. The Italian beef is also passable. This isn't going to be life changing, but its not bad either.

Well we tried it last night. It might have been the worst pizza I have ever had.

We ordered a thin crust, one side sausage, one side Italian beef.

When we opened the box the first thing we noticed was how pale it looked. When you pulled a slice there was no gooey-ness. It was like I made a pizza at home with Jewel mozz cheese. The crust was wrong for a pizza. When you were chewing it you were thinking that it should have strawberry preserves and powered sugar on top. It was like a weird dessert-like crust. The sauce was one step away from being a dessert it was so sweet. I actually enjoy a bit of sweet in my sauce but this was overload. The italian beef was unremarkable. The sausage was unlike any pizza sausage I have ever seen, except for one place.....Totino's pizza. The super -cheap frozen pizza that my mom used to buy when we were kids. It was tiny particles of sausage and the actual flavor was plain pork, no spice.

Hubby and I pretty much will eat any pizza even if it isn't that great.
I suggested waiting until it was cold to give it another shot but we wound up tossing it out.

Despite the considerable differences in evaluation, it is clear that these pizzas are from the same location. Over the past decade I must have had Goode and Fresh pizza thirty times, perhaps more frequently as we often ordered their pizza when my sons were at home, once we decided that this was our favorite close-in pizza.

The crust is sweet and cakey, I find it slightly sweet, not overly sweet, and the pizza does not have a lot of Italian herbs. This is not Burt's, not Coalfire or Vito&Nicks, not Spacca Napoli, not DiFara. But I always found the pizza quite fine - even if I would never compare it to any classic pizza style and even if I would sometimes add oregano to the mix, just for old-time sake. The sausage (and pepperoni) is not complex. And the cheese is not gooey, that is true as well. I rather like the crust and particularly like the onion, garlic, and spinach pizza.

I always treated Goode and Fresh as something of a guilty pleasure, wondering how others might react.