When I fall in love, I fall hard. Imagine, a scared college freshman away from home for the first time. Ready for new experiences...ready for deep dish pizza, oh yes.
I can remember my first pizza at Papa Del's as clearly as last night's. (Well maybe last night's is a little clearer because the leftovers are in my fridge.) You can go home again if home is for the best deep dish pizza this Illini fan has ever had.
This is our eighth year of being the proud parents of U of I students and boy are we glad they weren't in college at the same time. Not to avoid double tuition payments but to stretch out those Papa Del's pizzas.
When we come here after football games, we know it will be a huge wait. Before Basketball games is much easier. Last night I actually had allotted 2 hours and we were completely done in a little over an hour and had surprisingly good service. (It's a campus pizza place, 'nuff said for service expectations.)
While you wait for your pizza you can talk to your family! Have an Italian salad and then some cheesy garlic bread. Then be prepared to fall in love and have an emotional affair with pizza that will last a lifetime.