Giordano's Navy Pier

Chicago


The city's top purveyor of stuffed pizza has an outpost on Navy Pier. What is stuffed pizza? It's a bigger, gooier riff on deep dish: it's dough, with cheese on top, then another layer of dough atop that, plus toppings. Each pie takes 45 minutes to rise to thick-crusted perfection.


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