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| - Louboutins: Exquisitely crafted shoes that make you feel sexy and stylish.
Lou-boo-tons: That feeling you get in your gut when you've eaten a ton of Lou Malnati's (I doubt you'll feel sexy and stylish).
My last review for 2017!
I had been wanting to try out the Phoenix locations of Lou Malnati's since they had opened. It had been a while since I had dined at Lou's in Chicago so I wanted to try out their deep dish again. The Arcadia location was closest to where we were so we headed out, fully expecting a sit down restaurant. When we got here, we were surprised to see only one car in the parking lot and a tiny building with dark paneled windows. It looked so deserted I had thought that the business was actually closed for the day.
We entered and were even more surprised to see that there was just one single counter, with a fridge and freezer selling frozen pizzas, salads and sides. I didn't see any kitchen (Although now I know there's probably one in the back) and the employee at the counter was on the phone with another customer for quite some time so I didn't even know that you could place a hot pizza order for pick up or delivery. Once she was done taking the phone order she did mention that a lot of people make the same mistake by coming here, thinking it's a second sit-down location. Hey Lou's, perhaps you need to rename this location Lou's To Go so there isn't any further confusion with customers!
Since we were already here we got 2 one topping pizzas from the frozen section. Our total was $30+. Over $15 for a 9 inch pizza? I mean sure it's deep dish and filling and whatnot, but we only had one topping for each pizza and we had to heat it up ourselves in our own oven! Well... it better be worth it and taste like a pizza you can get at one of their restaurants!
The pizzas themselves are well packaged and were easy to transport back. Opening them up, they did look a bit disappointing. I don't think the crust is as thick as the pizzas they serve at the restaurant (Or maybe the recipe changed since I ate at the Chicago location years ago?). I was hoping maybe the crust would rise a little after heating it in the oven, but it looked the same. As for the "deep dish" aspect, it was more of a "medium dish" amount of filling and topping for me.
We had a sausage and a spinach pizza and heated both up at the same time. Out of the two I preferred the spinach because it had a better balance of sauce, topping, and cheese. The sausage pizza needed more sauce, but then also suffered from having a crust that was too rock hard along the edges but too doughy in the top layer. We cut each pizza into 4 slices and I was able to eat a slice of each before getting full.
I wasn't very satisfied with the frozen pizzas, but I might be back to try out their hot carryout pizzas and I'll definitely check out the dine-in location for next time!
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