The cover story in the November issue of Chicago Magazine features the 25 best pizza places in the city, ranked in order. The article starts out by saying "Homegrown styles have evolved thanks to a new crop of chefs putting their twist on pan, deep dish, and tavern." Of course, in my opinion, the twists these new chefs put on pizza usually involve disgusting ingredients that make the pizza inedible, and so I was surprised and delighted to see that number 15 on the list of the best pizza places in Chicago was none other than Vito and Nicks, from which our family got takeout years ago when we lived in the South Side Brainerd neighborhood of Chicago. Getting a Vito and Nick's pizza was sheer heaven. Even Irma, our beagle, went absolutely crazy when my father Nelson walked into the house with that wonderful smelling pizza. Vito and Nick's, by the way, opened in 1923, and so I have a sneaking suspicion that they do not have any of those new crops of chefs on their staff. And thank God for that.
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