Chicago-style pizza

Chicago-style pizza is a deep-dish pizza style developed in Chicago. Chicago-style pizza has a buttery crust up to three inches tall at the edge, slightly higher than the large amounts of cheese and ...

Giardiniera

Giardiniera is an Italian or Italian-American relish of pickled vegetables in vinegar or oil.

Barbecue

Jibarito

The jibarito (pronounced hee-bah-ree-to), a specialty of Chicago, Illinois, is a sandwich made with flattened, fried green plantains instead of bread, garlic-flavored mayonnaise, and a filling that ...

Italian beef in Chicago

An Italian beef is a sandwich of thin slices of seasoned roast beef, dripping with meat juices, on a dense, long Italian-style roll, believed to have originated in Chicago, where its history dates back at ...

Sausage Bread

Calzone

A calzone (Italian "stocking" or "trouser") is a turnover that originates from Italy. It is made of ingredients similar to pizza folded over and shaped like a ...

Hot Dogs

A Chicago-style hot dog, known locally as a Chicago Dog, is a steamed or water-simmered, kosher-style, all-beef frankfurter on a poppy seed bun, originating from the city of Chicago, ...

Local specialties

Chicago's oldest delicacies are chicken Vesuvio and shrimp DeJonghe. The great triumvirate of Chicago-style foods is Chicago-style pizza, Chicago-style hot dogs and Italian ...

Pizza

We have three pizza styles in Chicago: Chicago style, also known as deep-dish, which is thick-crusted and often demands a knife and fork; stuffed, which is similar to a pie, with a crust on both top and ...