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| - My sister, brother-in-law and I went to this place after wandering around the street on a Saturday looking for a not seriously packed spot to eat.
We settled on Bensonhurst.
At first blush, this New York meets Chicago via Italy pizza place with the German Beer Haus sounding name should be confusing, but it seems to work. The restaurant is well laid out with cool graffiti, Chicago warehouse windows, subway tile, an open kitchen and clay pizza oven. Bensonhurst seems to be able to make gritty welcoming.
As for food, the menu does an E for Effort job of organizing, and explaining, New York, Chicago and Neapolitan pizza styles. The pizzas we ordered had decent flavour, but the chefs need a bit of schooling on the difference between spinach and arugula and why it's a good idea to not use canned black olives.
Bensonhurst gets points for originality and spunk but upping their food game, perhaps with better quality ingredients to help perfect each pizza style on offer, would take this concept restaurant with the cool atmosphere up a level.
Overall, as the only pizza joint offering Chicago and New York style in the city that isn't fast food, I'd go again for lunch and do recommend you try it out too; a solid three.
T.
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