The new store recently opened and we decided to get a deep dish pie for carryout on a Thursday. If the pizza was going to be the same as the old location, it was going to be a real treat.
I called over the phone and ordered a medium cheese and sausage deep dish. We were told it would be 1.5 hours before it was ready, which seems like a long time but deep dish does take considerably longer and they seemed quite busy on a Thursday night.
We drove up to the store and walked inside to pick up our pie. The inside of the new restaurant is beautiful. Spacious, well decorated and just fresh/new looking. We should have eaten in.
There was a little trouble claiming our pizza. Apparently the guy on the phone totally butchered my last name and the correct spelling was not coming up on their computer. We managed to search by phone number and thankfully that was heard correctly when I ordered and matched my actual phone number.
The pizza itself was good, I felt. It was almost exactly like the pizza from the old store, with one minor difference that I thought negatively stuck out: the crust.
This crust was very thick and bready. I know deep dish has thick crust, but I felt like this was a little too much. The cheese was pretty thick, but I felt the pizza was lacking sauce. We should have asked for a little extra sauce like we usually do. The lack of sauce made the pizza taste a little dry, and of course really bread-y from the crust being so thick.
The sausage on the pizza was tasty! It was in the form of pretty large round chunks and didn't taste very institutional like the chain pizza place sausage does.
Our 'za cost $17 picked up. At less than $9/person we definitely were full and even had a couple of leftover pieces. The pizza wasn't bad, but again we thought it was a little on the bread-y side and could've used more sauce.
I'd come back.