amos wrote:Great Lake pizza in Andersonville is by far the best pizza I've had here in Chicago. I had given up on grabbing a pizza dinner until this place opened.
Definitely smokes most thin crust places. I think sopressata and crimini? Lovely.
Pequod's used to be a dingy, smoky place plastered with pictures of customers and hockey memorabilia with no bullshit staff slinging beers and pizzas from a plywood bar, not to mention a whole different crowd. Then it burned down and the owner rebuilt it as TGI McScratchy's. The food is the same and I'll eat in there once in a great while because the pizza is so goddamn good fresh out of the oven.
The staff used to fuck with the customers no end. One night, a group of 6 or 8 was eating around midnight. They had a good half a dozen empty bottles of Chimay on the table and the bartender was clearly getting tired of them. They asked him to change the music from whatever metal was playing - someone yelled out "Billy Joel!" - which blasted for the remainder of the evening at deafening volume while he vacuumed under the table they were eating at. They sang along.
One night, a woman in a Vail t-shirt screamed over the Slayer that she'd love to come there more often if they'd turn the music down. He smiled and nodded. She left.
It was one of my favorite places to be in Chicago.
