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I've fallen in love with Rocky Rococo's.

 

Last weekend, even recovering from Covid, I downed 4 slices, which I've never managed before.

 

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I know that after I move back to Madison I'm putting on a good 10 lbs and Rocky's is going to be the prime culprit.

 

I grab a couple of slices before/after the Badgers games. Way, way better option than the frozen burger patties from the area bars (and, I believe, less expensive too).

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Over the weekend I created probably my best homemade pizza ever, and happened to be using naan bread for the crust.  The thing I did differently is I cut up I believe 6 cloves of garlic and slow and l

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They are only in Milwaukee and there are only three locations.  If you are ever back in Milwaukee it is the best place to go. 

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You are 100% correct!   PP are amazing! The Meat Sweats are my favorite!

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Yea, I'm a thin crust, Milwaukee style pizza kind of guy. Norhing else is close, except Rockys. I don't know what it is, the doughy crust, love the sauce. Woyld have it more often if ir didn't have 197,000 calories in a super slice.
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Yea, I'm a thin crust, Milwaukee style pizza kind of guy. Norhing else is close, except Rockys. I don't know what it is, the doughy crust, love the sauce. Woyld have it more often if ir didn't have 197,000 calories in a super slice.

 

Yeah. I'm wondering how much of those 18 lbs I lost is coming back from those Rocky's slices.

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I love this thread.

 

If anyone is in Chicago, skip all the downtown deep-dish places and go to Pequod's which is just west of Lincoln Park.

 

I'm in suburbs, and I prefer any of the Moretti's locations. Their deep dish is okay, but their thin crust is why I go there. The other places that are great are Home Run Inn, and of course an old favorite that is still around, Barnaby's.

 

Haven't tried Pequod's but I will keep it in mind.

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I love this thread.

 

If anyone is in Chicago, skip all the downtown deep-dish places and go to Pequod's which is just west of Lincoln Park.

 

I'm in suburbs, and I prefer any of the Moretti's locations. Their deep dish is okay, but their thin crust is why I go there. The other places that are great are Home Run Inn, and of course an old favorite that is still around, Barnaby's.

 

Haven't tried Pequod's but I will keep it in mind.

Ironic, in that I've found Pequod's to be the closest thing to Rocky Rococo's that I've found in Chicago. Pequod's sauce is a little spicier, but overall it's fairly close.

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I think I had Rocky Rococo's once a long time ago when I was in Wisconsin. I didn't think it came close to the pizza in Chicago. I'm no fan of any Chicago teams but when I make it back to Wisconsin, we look for fish frys on Fridays, and prime rib on Saturdays, and wait till we're back in Illinois for pizza.
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I love this thread.

 

If anyone is in Chicago, skip all the downtown deep-dish places and go to Pequod's which is just west of Lincoln Park.

 

I'm in suburbs, and I prefer any of the Moretti's locations. Their deep dish is okay, but their thin crust is why I go there. The other places that are great are Home Run Inn, and of course an old favorite that is still around, Barnaby's.

 

Haven't tried Pequod's but I will keep it in mind.

Ironic, in that I've found Pequod's to be the closest thing to Rocky Rococo's that I've found in Chicago. Pequod's sauce is a little spicier, but overall it's fairly close.

 

My favorite deep dish in Chicago remains Art of Pizza on Ashland, just south of Belmont in Lincoln Park area.

 

On the south side near white sox park, Ricobenes makes a good thin crust pie as well.

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I think I had Rocky Rococo's once a long time ago when I was in Wisconsin. I didn't think it came close to the pizza in Chicago. I'm no fan of any Chicago teams but when I make it back to Wisconsin, we look for fish frys on Fridays, and prime rib on Saturdays, and wait till we're back in Illinois for pizza.

 

Back in the late 70's Rocky's was a true deep dish pizza but certainly the definition of deep dish has changed and I don't really even consider Rocky's to be a deep dish pizza at all anymore. I would never try to compare it to a Chicago style deep dish because that is an entirely different animal.

 

I really like the Chicago-style deep dish pizza after I get about half the sauce scrapped off. But I have never found a decent Chicago-style deep dish pizza in the western half of Dane County. Recommendations are welcome. I'm to the point where I have started looking at youtube videos for recipes because I am pretty near trying to make my own from scratch!

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I think I had Rocky Rococo's once a long time ago when I was in Wisconsin. I didn't think it came close to the pizza in Chicago. I'm no fan of any Chicago teams but when I make it back to Wisconsin, we look for fish frys on Fridays, and prime rib on Saturdays, and wait till we're back in Illinois for pizza.

 

Back in the late 70's Rocky's was a true deep dish pizza but certainly the definition of deep dish has changed and I don't really even consider Rocky's to be a deep dish pizza at all anymore. I would never try to compare it to a Chicago style deep dish because that is an entirely different animal.

 

I really like the Chicago-style deep dish pizza after I get about half the sauce scrapped off. But I have never found a decent Chicago-style deep dish pizza in the western half of Dane County. Recommendations are welcome. I'm to the point where I have started looking at youtube videos for recipes because I am pretty near trying to make my own from scratch!

 

It does you no good now because they've been gone for a long time, but Gino's on State St. in Madison used to be phenomenal.

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My favorite deep dish in Chicago remains Art of Pizza on Ashland, just south of Belmont in Lincoln Park area.

That's definitely my second favorite. Last summer when they shut down the running trails I used to run up and down Ashland right past it.

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My favorite deep dish in Chicago remains Art of Pizza on Ashland, just south of Belmont in Lincoln Park area.

 

Art of Pizza is very good deep dish.

Lou Malnati's is known for their Chicago style but I really like their thin crust. I think one just opened in Brookfield, WI.

Some other Chicago places we like are Coal Fire (not as good delivered) and Craft Pizza.

Another thin crust that's pretty decent is Bartoli's.

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Chicago deep dish pizza isn't really even pizza. It's good once every couple years though.

 

Blasphemous! It's a pizza pie!

 

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When I was in college, Eduardo's was our favorite celebration place. A bit too expensive for regular visits (in college), but loved it for those special occasions. Unfortunately, they've closed. :(

 

A couple of years ago, we tried Giordano's in the Twin Cities and it just wasn't the same.

"Rock, sometime, when the team is up against it, and the breaks are beating the boys, tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Uecker. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock but I'll know about it; and I'll be happy."

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Im a sucker for Rockys salad bar. Must be the french dressing.

The hawing household also favors the salad bar at Rocky's - though of course we haven't been in at least a year, and I can't imagine they're doing salad bars nowadays. :(

 

The Madison location closest to Camp Randall has/had a honey mustard dressing that was excellent.

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Is talking about salad in a Pizza thread a bannable offense? ;) :laughing

"Rock, sometime, when the team is up against it, and the breaks are beating the boys, tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Uecker. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock but I'll know about it; and I'll be happy."

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Every once in a while, I get a craving for that good old fashioned rectangle shaped pizza that my high school cafeteria served.

Probably alone on that though.

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Every once in a while, I get a craving for that good old fashioned rectangle shaped pizza that my high school cafeteria served.

Probably alone on that though.

 

Na. I still cut mine into rectangles sometimes. :)

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Every once in a while, I get a craving for that good old fashioned rectangle shaped pizza that my high school cafeteria served.

Probably alone on that though.

 

Buy one of those TV dinners...it tastes pretty close even getting the soggy and chewy texture.

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