"West Of Chicago has midwestern mise en scène down to a science, with ridged ramekins pumped full of neon-orange liquid cheese, red plastic tumblers for fountain soda, and Italian beef-scented air circulating throughout the dining room. Luckily, the pizza lives up to the Chi-Town vérité. Sure, there's some solid deep dish, but you’re making a trip for the tavern pie, with its cracker-thin, earth-shattering crunch, oregano-flecked sauce, and additions like crispy-edged pepperoni cups and creamy dollops of ricotta. The starters don’t play second fiddle either, like Mama Lil’s-spiked sausage dip or doughy breadsticks dusted in parmesan." - aimee rizzo, kayla sager riley, gabe guarente
