Where the Locals Eat Rating
Top 100 Restaurant, Chicago
"Our famous deep-dish pizza tastes the same as it did back [upon opening in 1966]. Each pizza is made by hand and features its own unique look. Each legendary pizza is created with a secret, golden crust, fresh vine-ripened tomatoes, and loaded with your choice of fresh ingredients. Once baked to perfection these enormous pies are brought to your table in our well-seasoned pans."
– The Original Gino's East of Chicago website
"Many Chicagoans consider Gino's the quintessential deep-dish Chicago-style pizza."
– Frommer's
"The deep-dish pizza with a cornmeal-studded crust continues to garner raves: it's rich and filling, with plenty of whole tomatoes, gooey cheese, and nicely spiced and generously portioned sausage for meat lovers."
– Laura Levy Shatkin, Chicago Reader
"For those who can't deal with the inevitable deep-dish food coma, thin crust pies, stromboli, pasta and sandwiches also make the menu."
– Chicago Tribune
How others rate Gino's East
Zagat 2008
22 Food Rating (Very Good to Excellent)