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Vito & Nick's Pizzeria

The other of the two families most often credited with originating Chicago tavern-style pizza. The Barraco family has run it as a tavern since the 1920s and, by the business's own account, Nick Barraco began making the thin, square-cut pizza in 1946 with a dough recipe the family still will not disclose.

8433 S Pulaski Rd, Chicago, IL 60652 · Chicago · Chicago tavern

Four people in Vito and Nick's T-shirts and paper hats standing together behind the counter, framed pictures on the wall above.
From Vito & Nick's Pizzeria (@vito_and_nicks)

Why it is here

The other of the two families most often credited with originating Chicago tavern-style pizza. The Barraco family has run it as a tavern since the 1920s and, by the business's own account, Nick Barraco began making the thin, square-cut pizza in 1946 with a dough recipe the family still will not disclose.

What to order

sausage tavern-style pizza, cut into squares

What we looked at

"a guarded dough recipe", proprietary to the family, per the business's own siteThin crust cut into squares, the tavern-style formatSame family (Barraco) making the pizza since 1946