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At this point, I'd had a good variety of deep dish, Neapolitan, artisinal and thin crust pizza throughout Chicago, but no hot slices. Thankfully Santullo's, located in the oh-so-hip Wicker Park neighborhood, couldn't have been more convenient for me at the time.
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The place has a welcoming, almost kitschy rockabilly feel to it, with plenty of seating and tongue-in-cheek humor regarding its clientele.
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I was so used to stumbling into NY pizza joints and placing my order with anyone willing to take it- not the case at Santullo's. I had to be redirected to the front register (even though I was the only customer around).
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It was there that I came across Santullo's esteemed "Best Pizza" award next to the register. I don't really understand it- it's a...pizza cutter attached to a golden wire-frame pizza slice? Hmm, okay. Pretty sweet.
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This coupled with the seemingly endless reheat process, I was seeping with anticipation for my slice. "This is going to be so awesome," I remember thinking to myself.
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...This is so not awesome. Look at the muted layer of coagulated cheese. In this light (which to be fair is unflattering), it looks almost like prosthetic skin. Did I just make that up? After a good four minutes reheating in the oven, the slice was somehow piping hot and incredibly soggy at the same time.
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The last time I ate a slice this shitty and sloppy it was at Blondie's in San Fran. No, Santullo's slice isn't quite as bad, but after making my way halfway through and sampling the crust, I tossed it in the trash all the same. And that's saying a lot.
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Sure Santullo's, if that's what you wanna call it. At this point I realized Chicago should stick to making deep dish, and NY should stick to making slices. Please.
Wow! I am so surprised!
ReplyDeleteThat is definitely one of the places on my blog (pizzaloverchicago.blogspot.com) to visit! Although I will still check it out sometime, I definitely have a new viewpoint to what the pizza is really like!
Thanks for the post!
Felicia, cool story bro, how about visiting a joint before blogging about it? PizzaCommander- that slice looks like some local bar BS. No excuse.
ReplyDeleteThe award is a compass BTW which I'd assume shows you the way to good pizza but from your pics I'd rather go to Papa Johns. (I'm not kidding.)
Anon, you are hilarious.
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