So, my “Ten Restaurants Seattle Needs” article from December 26, one of the restaurants I said I’d like to see in Seattle is a Chicago deep-dish pizza place. In the comments section of the online article — what, you haven’t started commenting on Weekly articles yet? — a couple of people wrote in to say that Seattle did in fact have a Chicago-style pizza place: Delfino’s Pizza in U Village. Now, some pizza fanatics are complaining that stuffed-crust may be on the wane in Chicago anyway, replaced by the hipper Italian thin-crust style that’s also huge here. But I moved to Seattle from the Bay Area, where all three of the Zachary’s Chicago Pizza spots are always slammed and where two new Chicago-style pizza chains (Little Star and Patxi’s) have recently emerged, specializing in stuffed-crust pizzas with less cheese and fresher toppings/fillings than anything Gino’s East ever put out.So after hot shame burned a couple of holes in my small intestine about the oversight, I took a friend to Delfino, which, ha ha, has been at the Village for more than a decade. The menu said Delfino’s stuffed-crust pizza took 35 minutes to cook, so we calculated the time until the late screening of I’m Not There at the Varsity began, ordered a pie, grabbed some magazines, and waited. After an hour, the other six tables in the restaurant all were devouring their pizzas, the cooks were giving us worried looks, and I thought, hunh, they must have screwed up our pie and had to make a new one. Then our server bounced up to us. “I just put your pizza order in, ha ha sorry ha ha!” she said. “Can I get you another salad while you wait?”Wait an hour and thirty-five minutes for something we wouldn’t have time to eat before our movie started? No thanks. We got up, put on our coats, and told her we’d just pay for the salad and drinks, thank you. She disappeared into the back for five minutes, then the other waitress (quick calculation: each server only had three tables to cover) finally came out and told us they’d take care of the salad, no apologies. So, I’m going to let my original comment stand, with one amendment: Seattle needs a good Chicago-style pizza place.
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