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I know there's a thing with the various Rosati's around town, like some owned by one branch of the family and others owned by another branch of the family....I'm not quite sure how it shakes out except that this one and the one at I-17 and Thunderbird seem to be run the same and have the same food so those are the only two I go to.
Oh, yeah, the food. So, I'm from Chicago, which is where this chain began, and that also means that I am extremely particular when it comes to pizza. And I don't know where the mythology started that "Chicago style" pizza is thick crust or pan? No. The original Chicago style pizza is actually served on a thin crust and cut into squares. The secondary Chicago style pizza, that actually didn't really take off until maybe the late 1970s/early 1980s, is what folks around here call "deep dish" pizza but is actually in Chicago referred to as "stuffed." There's your food history lesson for today.
So the quintessential Chicago style pizza is a thin crust topped with Italian sausage. CRUMBLED Italian sausage (to those doofuses who want to slice it). And, quite frankly, Rosatti's is the only place in town that does it worth a hoot. Now there's that new place, Lou what's-his-name, but I never went to his place in Chicago and to be quite honest, I'm not rushing to try his place here.
So, bottom line: the pizza at Rosati's is authentic and delicious Chicago-style pizza. Also, their Italian Beef is the only beef in town besides Portillo's that's worth eating. Case closed.
PS: There are some places around that make these things, I think they might call them wood-fired pizza or some such thing? Places like Fired Pie and I don't know who else. Some of them turn out some food that is quite delicious. But I'm sorry, unless it has a tomato sauce, Italian sausage (or in rare cases pepperoni) and mozzarella cheese, it is not a pizza. Whatever it is may be delicious, but it is not a pizza. Just so ya know, ya' know?
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