Name: Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Company
Address: 2121 N Clark St, Chicago, IL, 60614
Telephone: (773) 248-2570

Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Company

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📍 2121 N Clark St, Chicago, IL 60614

Attorney Albert H. Beaver opened Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Company in April 1972, and the pizza pot pie itself came to him in a dream — a bowl of cheese and 10-hour scratch sauce topped with a triple-raised Sicilian dough lid, inverted tableside by the server.

★★★★★ 4.6 (7,300 reviews) via Google

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The pizza pot pie comes baked upside down in a bowl, and the server flips it tableside — order it once for the dish, come back because it's actually good.

📈 Scores in the top 19% of Chicago Exclusive Gems on ChicagoSpecials.com

It sits directly across the street from the site of the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre, a detail most first-timers don't clock until someone points it out. The Mediterranean bread starter is also frequently praised.

Holds a 4.6 Google rating across 7,300+ reviews (4.1 on Yelp across 3,300+); the dish went viral on TikTok in recent years, and it's walk-in only, no reservations -- expect a real wait.

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4.6 stars, 7,300+ reviews — a genuine only-in-Chicago dish; Mediterranean bread starter also frequently praised.

Hours

Mon-Thu4-10PM

Fri 4-11PM

Sat 11AM-11PM

Sun 11AM-10PM

📅 Reservations not available 🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 (773) 248-2570

Amenities & accessibility

🚶Walk-in only, no reservations

❔Takeout: unverified

♿Wheelchair accessible

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Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Company

Attorney Albert H. Beaver opened Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Company in April 1972, and the pizza pot pie itself came to him in a dream — a bowl of cheese and 10-hour scratch sauce topped with a triple-raised Sicilian dough lid, inverted tableside by the server.

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