Never leave me Caire's.

Restaurant: Caire's Pizza (18th & racine)

Price: $10 (large cheese)*

*try to catch Caire's on a tues.(2 med.-$10) or wed.(1 lg.-$7)

The Caire's Chompers: Dean, Tana, & Zach

Caire's is the fucking JAM! It's right down the street from my house, the pizza is delicious and cheap, and the people that run it are fucking awesome. The pizza is the perfect balance of cheese/sauce/thickness, goes great with Tapatillo too!

Liquor store is next door, so it's almost a one stop shop.

Gonna have to give Caire's the 5 bottle salute!

Bangin' ass Bacci's

Restaurant: Bacci's (North/Clybourn location)

Price: $5 (drink/slice)

I kinda took this picture a little late.  I had chowed most of the slice and it had been in my hands for about 5 hours.  So just take that into consideration when looking at the rugged photo.

I have been to Bacci's, I don't know how many times, and it always fails to disappoint.  I have to admit the pizza is kind of bootleg but I don't give a shit, it's rad as hell. For 5 bucks, you can't get a better deal, and yes it used to be a lot cheaper but that was the past. Pizza prices got to go up, it's a bummer thinking about it but it's true.  Heres a little info on the subject:

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Every time we start to approach the end of another fiscal year, the government has to always meet and decide upon the new pizza-per-square-inch price, and every year it usually goes up. Bacci's always tries to fight the powers that be but it's not that easy, sometimes they gotta squeeze the price up just a lil' bit, to keep the suits happy.  The only thing we can do is vote, vote for a new/more pizza friendly government and from what I hear Barack is gonna make a difference (being a major pizza fan and all) You can too by voting NO on Prop. 6-13, which takes away the power to tax our pizza by the sq. inch.  Maybe in 2010,  Bacci's might even be 2.50 a slice again.  Well, even if it doesn't, they can't take away our freedom to dream can they?

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Back to Bacci's though, how come the mountain dew always tastes bad at the chicago/western location?  Every time, I try to forget the past and grab a cup of dew, and it always tastes like shit.  When will this change!?  I love coke, don't get me wrong, but sometimes I want some m.dew, or at least the power to choose between the two. 

What the fuck Bacci's?

So the soda catastrophe sucks, but the pizza is always spectacular.  I always make sure to grab some hot sauce to dowse on my slice and it only makes it better. It's kind of a buffalo wing type sauce and its perfect for that Bacci's flava.

So because of their dew shortage I'm gonna have to give them a 4 out of 5.

(I wanna give them a 5 out of 5, but I NEED CHANGE!)

Exchequer is gnarly as fuck

Restaurant: Exchequer Restaraunt & Pub

Price point: $80 bucks!!!*

*we had a shit ton of food and got two pitchers of honkers & blue moon...and there was 5 of us

The Exchequer Deep Dish Shred Heads: Liz, Michelle, Dean, Tana, and Zach

So the pizza was really awesome, but it was definitely gnarly.  It was deep as hell and there was a shit ton of cheese. We got 2 medium pizzas (1 spinach and feta & 1 sausage), and we only got through about a half of each pie and I felt devastated. I liked it a lot...the pizza was really killer, but it was almost too much for me. In the deep dish category, Gino's East still kills it I have to say, but this pizza was still very delicious.

Exchequer itself is pretty rad too, it was always the place to drop by when we wanted to grab beers before and after school.  I'm sure they have a bunch of other really righteous food, but I did have a sandwich there one day and it really sucked but whatevs.

We had buffalo wings too, this picture makes them look kind of gross, but they were amazing. 

Go to Exchequer and get wings and beer.

Pizza rating: 3 out of 5

A Gino's East Kind of Wednesday.

The Gino's East Pie Pinchers: Lisa, Michelle, Dean, & Zach

Price:$22 (delivered)

I'm really interested to try and find the best deep dish in Chicago and strangely enough Gino's East is still my favorite.  It's fucking awesome...way better than Giordano's. I mention Giordano's because Gino's and Giordano's are probably the most touristy pizza places in Chicago (I feel they're on the same level of popularity). So, this blog might turn into a quest for deep dish, but I'll try not to make it boring. I like all the different colors of the pizza rainbow!

This time I ended up drinking a bottle of King Cobra and I think it paired wonderfully (but malt liquor and deep dish always go good together).  As a group, we were bummed though, we ordered too small of a pizza, a medium. MAJOR BUMMER ALERT! but it was okay, we each got a slice and a half, i left hungry but not dissapointed.

I think I like Gino's a lot more because I feel they don't go cheese crazy.  Don't get me wrong, I love cheese, but some times I definitely feel overloaded with the stuff.  It always needs to be the perfect balance of cheese/sauce/crust.

And speaking about crust, that's what makes Gino's real rad, their golden crust.  I'm not a huge crust fan, but I always seem to chow my GE crust. It's awesome, bottom line!

I hate to be the guy that gives out all decently high scores but Gino's East is rad, 5 out of 5.

Food-stamp-eat-at-home-pizza-series #2 Palermo's Rustico Pizza

Brand: Palermo's (RUSTICO)

Price: $4.50 (ish)

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I think I cooked this pizza about 5 minutes too long.  Personally, I like my pizza more undercooked than overcooked, but it was still good so it's okay.

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*Thanks to Daniel for posing with the Old Style I drank with this and the Palermo's box.

This pizza was pretty rad but I don't think I have anything special to say about it.  Well, I was actually very impressed with it's abilities to near double in fucking size when I threw it in the oven.  That was pretty cool.  The actual taste was nothing to write home about though, it seems like the most common style of frozen pizzas. Oh, but one thing that was awesome was that it was 6-cheese, SIX DIFFERENT KIND OF CHEESES! When I was buying the last pizza I reviewed it was 5-cheese and I was stoked on that. Next to it i saw that there was a 4-cheese of the same style but how can you buy a 4-cheese pizza when there is a 5-cheese next to it.  Then this pizza had to go and top it 1-cheese more! It only proves though that more cheese doesn't make it better, only gnarlier, and gnarlier didn't win in my stomach today.

I'm gonna have to give this one a 3 out of 5.

Pizza Hut Sunday 2/15/2009

The Pizza Hut Playerz: Zachary Dillon & Tana Munsey

What got chomped: (1) Medium Pizza (Pan)

(2) Salads

(1) Order of Cheese Breadsticks

(10) [Buffalo Medium] Boneless Buffalo Wings

Price: 30 Doll hairs

Okay, so this was a lot of fucking food, we got excited. It's just that whenever I walk inside of a Pizza Hut, I get super stoked!  It doesn't happen very often, It seems that the tradition is coming to near extinction.  Today though, TODAY reinforced my confidence in this establishment.  Heres a breakdown on I felt about the food:

The Pizza.

It's the pizza we all love, you know how it tastes!  

Whenever I go to/order from Pizza Hut I go for the Pan Pizza, I think it's because I've never had a pizza that tastes like the Pan Pizza Hut Pizza, It's fucking radical!

The Salads.

The salads were good, no complaints, but not very interesting, sorry salad fans.

The Cheese Breadsticks.

These were fucking awesome.

This was the last thing I ate when I was nearing my Pizza Hut deathbed, it made me feel sick, but it was totally worth it.

The Boneless Buffalo Wings.

I did not want to stop eating these god damn things. They were delicious.

We went for the medium spiciness...maybe cause we're sissys...i dunno...but they were a pretty nice balance of buffalo flavors.

We ranch'd the hell out of these shredderz.

Overall I give the entire Pizza Hut Experience 5 out of 5!

Stop orderin' from here and start livin' here.

You can even Buffet it up!

You can even get fucked up here.

Food-stamp-eat-at-home-pizza-series #1 Red Baron 5-Cheese

Okay, so first of all, this pizza was fucking rad. As it says on the box, it is super thin and crispy...which I think...made it super fucking good.  we decided to pair this one with the norm, cheap beer.  We (Ryan Doherty and I) had to slam this R. Baron down before having to run over to Cobra Lounge to see our friends play at 11:30 (Empty Heads, I suggest you looking them up (Oh, and Big Knife too, they're super rad as well)).  I think I ended up burning the roof of my mouth like crazy, but I can't really remember because I took too long to post this freakin review.

A NEW DAY.