John and I recently went on a pizza date with some of my college buddies. They were all seated on the shaky bench when by the time we arrived. Emmett\u2019s opened not too long ago, right around the time Jon Stewart ranted about deep dish pizza. There was a wait for a table of five, but it wasn\u2019t as bad as the two hour waits mentioned on Yelp.<\/p>\n
After we had placed our order, there was an additional wait of 35 \u2013 40 minutes before we were chowing down on pizza. It takes a lot of oven time to prepare that deep dish goodness. No worries though, Emmett\u2019s has a good selection of drinks, including some very strong (14%!) beers, and it\u2019s quiet enough to catch up with friends. In NYC, pizza is everywhere. If you\u2019re not picky, you can even get pizza for a dollar a slice. It\u2019s New York style pizza, of course, with thin, crispy yet foldable crust. But what about Chicago style pizza? Where does one get that in the land of thin crust pizza? One of my friends, Brian, spent a couple years in Chicago, so naturally, he wanted to seek out deep dish pizza in NYC. Cue Emmett\u2019s\u2026 John and I recently went on a pizza date with some of my college buddies. They were all seated on the shaky bench when by the time we arrived. Emmett\u2019s opened not too long ago, right around the time Jon Stewart ranted about deep dish pizza. There was a wait for a table of five, but it wasn\u2019t as bad as the two hour waits mentioned on Yelp. After we had placed our order, there was an additional wait of 35 \u2013 40 minutes before we were chowing down on pizza. It takes a lot of oven time to prepare that deep dish goodness. No worries though, Emmett\u2019s has a good selection of drinks, including some very strong (14%!) beers, and it\u2019s quiet enough to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3355],"tags":[598,870,980,1678,1968,2189,2643,2941],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/emmetts-pizza.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"emmetts-menu\"](\"http:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/emmetts-menu.jpg?w=584&h=584\")
<\/a>Between the five of us, we split two large pizzas. One pizza was topped with green peppers and black olives for us veggie eaters. Overall, the pizzas were very impressive looking. Very saucy, and while I am normally a sauce lover, it was a bit too salty. The cheese was wonderfully stretchy and delicious. The crust was a bit much for me. One slice was already very filling, and I barely made it through a second slice. ![\"emmetts-pizza\"](\"http:\/\/www.wazwu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/emmetts-pizza.jpg?w=584&h=584\")
<\/a>The verdict? Not bad, but I just wish it were a little less salty. I have not had pizza in Chicago though, so I don\u2019t know what the real deal tastes like. Brian thought Emmett\u2019s wasn\u2019t quite as good as what he\u2019s used to. I\u2019m personally still partial to thin crust pizza since I basically eat pizza for the cheese and toppings, not the crust, but I can\u2019t complain about deep dish\u2026 it\u2019s still pizza!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"