Step Aside, Chicago Deep Dish. Have you ever eaten something so insanely good you still talk about it 18 years later" Seriously, back in 1997, before people called themselves ?foodies? (I mean, aren?t we all foodies, because we eat, you know, food") I had the pleasure of partaking in an amazing little invention that still […]The post Curious Traveler On Chicago’s Pizza Pot Pie appeared first on Pursuitist.

Step Aside, Chicago Deep Dish.Have you ever eaten something so insanely good you still talk about it 18 years later"Seriously, back in 1997, before people called themselves ?foodies? (I mean, aren?t we all foodies, because we eat, you know, food") I had the pleasure of partaking in an amazing little invention that still makes my stomach growl and my mouth water to this day, just thinking about it: a marvelous little invention called a ?Pizza Pot Pie?. You can start your 18-year obsession too, by checking out a little hidden gem of a narrow little restaurant on Clark Street in Chicago?s Lincoln Park: ?Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Company?.It?s almost a cliché to say you love Chicago pizza. But this isn?t Chicago deep dish, this is a whole new category of pizza nirvana. Now, I?m sure other restaurants might make their version of a Pizza Pot Pie, but before that fateful night in ?97, I hadn?t experienced it yet. Now, if you love all things pizza, all things real Italian, all things extra virgin olive oil, vine-ripe plum tomatoes and the kind...