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Professor Pizza
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Professor Pizza has moved to 406 N Sangamon St in the West Loop.
Professor Pizza has a now-familiar origin story: It began as a home kitchen pop-up, started selling their pies out of a ghost kitchen, and is now selling pies at Tetto: a rooftop bar in the West Loop.
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As Professor Pizza’s name has given away, the focus here is on pizza. They make several varieties (including Detroit, Sicilian, and grandma) but their tavern and incredible NY-style are the main reason you should place an order this instant. The NY pie has a flavorful crust, with a puffy edge and a beautifully charred undercarriage. The cracker-crust in the tavern-style is thin enough to have a snap, but can still hold up to the toppings.
Each style of pie has a lot of creative topping combinations worth your attention (like gyro or mushroom and leek). But even their simple pies—like the cheese made with aged mozzarella, a spicy thick sauce, shaved garlic, and parm—have unexpected complexity. The addition of a soubise base, fried rosemary, and hot honey on their NY-style white pie makes us want to call Infatuation NYC for the sole purpose of bragging that it’s in our city, not theirs. In fact, we’re going to go do that right now.
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Cheese NY-Style
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White Pie NY-style
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Sausage And Pepper Chicago Cracker-Style
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Gyro NY-style
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