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San Mateo County Times
Wednesday, July 30, 2003
Wafting through the air at Windy City Chicago Style Pizza isn't the smell of baking dough, garlic or artfully crafted tomato sauce; it's smoky notes of barbecue.
The San Mateo restaurant is devoted to the culinary masterpieces of Northern Illinois - "knuckle-suckin' " Chicago-style barbecue and "hot, deep and thick" deep-dish pizza.
The latter can certainly be called a masterpiece. We ordered Chicago's Spinach Pie ($13.85 for a 12-inch, six-slice medium). Dressed with mushrooms, fresh spinach and three cheeses, it arrived at the table piping hot.
The ample amount of sauce provides a lubricating layer that causes the cheese to slide off perilously. The pizza may be a bit messy to eat, but it's delicious.
The real treat is the crust, buttery and crisp with texture almost like a savory shortbread. But it's best eaten hot; crisp and buttery turns to soggy and greasy when it cools off.
Combinations range from HEY! Meat Head (sausage, hamburger, salami, pepperoni and Canadian bacon) to Pesto-PestoPesto (pesto, tomatoes, olives and mushrooms).
Windy City Pizza is open 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Saturday; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday.
- Elizabeth Jardina
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