{"id":323253,"date":"2025-10-22T07:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/323253\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T07:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:31:12","slug":"beloved-chicago-deep-dish-joint-adds-tavern-style-pizza-to-menu-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/323253\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Chicago deep-dish joint adds tavern style pizza to menu \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for National Tavern-Style Pizza Day on Wednesday, a local deep-dish institution known for its stuffed crust pies is adding a crispy, square-cut pizza to their menu. <\/p>\n<p>Starting November 22, the Giordano&#8217;s menu will feature tavern-style pizza for the first time. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cChicago is a city that takes its pizza seriously, and we&#8217;re fortunate to have two distinct styles: deep-dish and tavern-style,&#8221; said Nick Scarpino, CEO at Giordano\u2019s. &#8220;Over the past 50 years, our deep-dish has become a symbol of Chicago around the world. Now, we&#8217;re thrilled to add our incredible tavern-style pizza that will surely become just as famous.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Scarpino also said the crunch from the tavern-style pizza will become &#8220;just as iconic as the cheese pull from our stuffed deep-dish pizza.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Giordano&#8217;s proprietary Wisconsin mozzarella blend is folded into the dough, producing a light and flaky crust, according to the company. The technique is inspired by how croissants are made.<\/p>\n<p>Their tavern-style pizza will be available in a variety of classic and specialty combinations and offered for dine-in, carryout and delivery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just in time for National Tavern-Style Pizza Day on Wednesday, a local deep-dish institution known for its stuffed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":323254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,990,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-323253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-food","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115416654418327492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}