We surely do n’t want to withstand any specific pizza on a pedestal , but there ’s something extra - special about Chicago - stylus bass dish . late , the Windy City ’s very ownLou Malnati’s– which serves “ the good pizza pie in Chicago ” – made its elbow room out West , expand to Arizona in what is the family - run business ’ first - ever opening out of doors of the Chicagoland surface area . And while we ’ve definitely gotour own great pizza pie scenehere in Phoenix , local anaesthetic could n’t be more excited about it . So while you ’re drive to have it off Lou ’s pies , check out some other things you might not have recognize about the pizza shop .
Opening day at the first location didn’t go as planned
In 1971 , when Lou and his wife Jean afford their first pizzeria in Lincolnwood , Illinois , a cable car doss down through the dining room area at peak evening hour . Jean say it made for an " exciting " possible action issue . Luckily no pizza was harm ( we think ) .
The secret to the perfect flaky crust is still a mystery
Is it the water ? Is it the butter ? Even today , no one know exactly how Lou ’s gets that thoroughgoing deep - dish crust . Except for the family .
Every single pizza is handmade from scratch
Fresh loot is tossed each twenty-four hours to make these deep - dish masterpieces . Cheese is sparge – no , dumped – on , along with other tasty ingredient , to make the perfect pie . And yes , even the pies ship across nation are made fresh .
Someone from the Malnati family has been running the business for more than three decades
Since the other ' 70 , a Malnati has been at the helm of the family business . Even the Phoenix position is lead by a penis of the phratry , Marc Malnati .
Lou’s son Rick had a college basketball career
But after graduating from Illinois ’ Bradley University , he connect the family business because : pizza > basketball .
This place has special tomato growers
The California Lycopersicon esculentum agriculturalist work on intimately with the management team to guarantee the respectable of the best .
The Phoenix location is the first to open outside the Chicagoland area
Phoenix is a top ship - to city . Lou Malnati ’s elaboration only turn up that . And we could n’t be more thrilled !
Deep dish runs in the family
It ’s NOT a dealership . The business organisation is still family - owned and maneuver . In fact , the Malnati signature mystifying - dish pizza is made from a formula that ’s been handed down through four dissimilar generations .
Lou’s has raised over $3 million for cancer research
All of the proceeds benefit Chicago - country cancer education and research programme to help encounter a cure .
The third Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria to open was a flop
locate more than 50 mile from where the first two pizza shops were already thriving , the third Lou ’s locating was a nonstarter and nearly bankrupt the family . But today , with 45 - fix around Chicago , and the new slur in Phoenix , it ’s good to say the job has bounced back .
The team conducted a double blind-test to make sure the pizza was perfect before opening up in Phoenix
And at first , it was n’t . Turns out the water supply here in Phoenix is a lot dissimilar than the water system in Chicago . When it come to Lou ’s signature pizza moolah , upright urine is a necessary factor . The pizza parlor has since perfected the water dilemma , though , with a rearward osmosis scheme that makes it taste like it ’s from the Midwest .
Lou’s has ordered its cheese from the same farm for 40 years
The fresh mozzarella has been delivered from the very same minuscule Wisconsin dairy farm farm for four decades .
Lou Malnati ’s Phoenix is located within the Uptown Plaza Shopping Center at 100 E Camelback Rd , Suite 152 , Phoenix , 85012 .
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Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria
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Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria
Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria
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Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria
