Pizza is life. For most of us, it is as perfect as food comes. It combines the best food to ever come out of an oven(fresh bread), with a dizzying array of variety that encompasses nearly all food groups and can suit tastes from the most hardcore vegan, to a butcher's son. Unlike many foods (steak, hamburgers, broccoli, oranges, for example) even the worst pizza is edible, and even dirt cheap frozen pizzas provide a hint of the best aspects of the cuisine.
Rating: ***** (Totally Sinful)
Food: I ended my Chicago-Style Pizza virginity by gorging myself an 11" The Extreme, featuring a straight-forward showing of pepperoni, sausage, green peppers, onions & mushrooms. It arrives covered in cheese, which is obscured by the generous and mandatory coating of red sauce capping off this Midwestern marvel. I'm going to need help for this one- fortunately she's ready with a fork. We cut in, and sauce goes spilling into the cardboard box. Seconds later, we're enveloped in this avalanche of toppings, running into the large bowls, which are the perfect containers for eating of this kind. Unlike it's New York cousins, with which we've grown so accustomed, crust is not the star of this show. It's the beautiful sauce, in generous quantities, which steals the scene. I'm not easily impressed with sauces, which can be too peppery or too sweet, but this has the perfect mix of both. Beneath the red sea, sticky cheese is masking generous amounts of all the above-mentioned toppings. What can I say? It's rich, it's terrible for you, it's divine. The end finishes with a crispy, tall crust, which is too grease soaked for my taste, but I'm too drunk on sauce and sausage to really care about health right now. I've finished one piece, which feels like one piece too many, yet seconds are in the front of my mind.
Service: A motley crew is behind the counter, complaining about their various problems, but all I care about is the final result.
Atmosphere: No inside seating, for anything other than a quick lunch slice.
Cost: $$. The stuffed-pizzas are not cheap, though we luck out, and take advantage of a Thursday-nite special. Still, an 11" could easily be split among 3-4 people, assuming no one was starving, or one of the kinds of people who can eat a whole pizza by themselves anyway.
Website: http://www.pizzaextreme.biz/
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