This was my first time ordering from Gus's. I got an extra-large cheese pizza, and wings. Medium and BBQ.
I picked up my food at around 5:30 on a Sunday and the restaurant was nearly empty. That should have been my first clue of how horrible this food was going to be.
First off the pizza looked worse that the cheapest frozen piece of crap that you find at the grocery store. The crust has no crispness to it. It was sluggish, like a wet sponge.
The sauce was overly bitter and tasteless like they used canned tomatoes and didn't add anything to it. The cheese was low quality didn't melt well, and was also pretty tasteless. Overall I would say that your average bowling alley, or Chuck E. Cheeses has better pizza.
The wings were overdone and dry. I spit mine out.
I feel that if a pizzeria advertises "New York style" to their name, they should have high standards. It shouldn't be just a label, but an title that is held in high regard. I would think that people from Chicago would agree that a regional cuisine such as this should be prepared a certain way. If it does not meet certain criteria, then it doesn't receive the title.
This was seriously the worst pizza I've had since leaving NY, and I lived in CA for four years. Their pizza is horrible as well.