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Pizza Hut Chicago Tavern Style Pizza
Jul. 14th, 2024 05:15 pmPizza Hut recently started offering Chicago tavern style pizza as a limited time special. For the past few weeks I've been curious to try it as a) I've always liked Chicago thin-crust style pizza, which is also called tavern style pizza; b) Pizza Hut's Thin-n-crispy crust is already pretty close to a Chicago thin crust, and c) Pizza Hut offered a special named "The Edge" two years ago which was also pretty much a Chicago thin crust pizza. As B & C were already pretty close to A, I figured Pizza Hut had a pretty reasonable shot and pulling it off, and I wanted to give it a try. Friday evening I decided to order takeout and went with Pizza Hut's special.
Pizza Hut offers a few different sets of toppings on its Chicago tavern crust. I opted for the Ultimate, which is pepperoni, Italian sausage, sauteed onions, roasted bell peppers, and plum tomatoes.
How was it?
Crust: the crust was okay. It tasted a little bland and it lacked the flavor and texture of corn meal, one of the hallmarks of Chicago pizza. It seemed kind of like Pizza Hut's normal Thin-n-crispy crust.
Sauce: I don't think there was sauce on my pie, except maybe the bit near the edge you can see in the picture. Maybe they went really light on sauce on purpose because of the tomato topping? I poured some marinara sauce from my fridge into a dish, warmed it up in the microwave, and used it as a dip.
Toppings: The pepperoni and sausage are standard Pizza Hut toppings and taste like they do on any other pie. Fire roasted peppers are okay, though on a pizza I tend to prefer the slightly sharper taste and less squishy texture of raw bell peppers baked on the pie. I'd skip the caramelized onions next time. I like raw onions baked on a pie, but these were too oily and too sweet. And the grape tomatoes were disgusting. I ended up picking all of them off. (I pretty much always hate fresh tomato slices on a pizza.)
Would I do it again? Yes, but not the Ultimate variety. I'd get a pie with pepperoni and maybe 1-2 other toppings from among Italian sausage, fresh onion, sliced mushroom, and fresh bell pepper.
Pizza Hut offers a few different sets of toppings on its Chicago tavern crust. I opted for the Ultimate, which is pepperoni, Italian sausage, sauteed onions, roasted bell peppers, and plum tomatoes.
How was it?
Crust: the crust was okay. It tasted a little bland and it lacked the flavor and texture of corn meal, one of the hallmarks of Chicago pizza. It seemed kind of like Pizza Hut's normal Thin-n-crispy crust.
Sauce: I don't think there was sauce on my pie, except maybe the bit near the edge you can see in the picture. Maybe they went really light on sauce on purpose because of the tomato topping? I poured some marinara sauce from my fridge into a dish, warmed it up in the microwave, and used it as a dip.
Toppings: The pepperoni and sausage are standard Pizza Hut toppings and taste like they do on any other pie. Fire roasted peppers are okay, though on a pizza I tend to prefer the slightly sharper taste and less squishy texture of raw bell peppers baked on the pie. I'd skip the caramelized onions next time. I like raw onions baked on a pie, but these were too oily and too sweet. And the grape tomatoes were disgusting. I ended up picking all of them off. (I pretty much always hate fresh tomato slices on a pizza.)
Would I do it again? Yes, but not the Ultimate variety. I'd get a pie with pepperoni and maybe 1-2 other toppings from among Italian sausage, fresh onion, sliced mushroom, and fresh bell pepper.
