Pizza is my favorite cheat-day food, so I have sampled my fair share of pies. The only pizza that rivals Romitos is Giardonos in Chicago. Everything that goes into a pizza at Romitos is made from scratch in-house. They hand-shred their cheese off the block, make the sauce, cook the bacon, etc. The shop is locally owned as well, by a hard-working independence family with four young children. The mouth-watering, heavily-topped pizza is baked fresh-to-order and will certainly fill your belly without draining your wallet. Romitos is one of the best parts about living in Independence!