Chicago Deep Dish Pizza - Gino's East Deep Dish Pizzas

My husband is from the Chicago area and is a fan of Gino's East in general so we had high hopes for a taste of the homeland. DO NOT purchase their frozen Meaty Legend pizza. We would rather have a Totino's frozen pizza instead and save a ton of money. The so called Meaty Legend is so lack of meat we couldn't believe it. Almost no meat at all. Such a disappointment. Will never buy product from Gino's ever again and on our next trip to Chicago we may not even visit a restaurant in person. We have 2 pizzas left (we bought a 3 pack) and we don't know what to do with them. Don't even feel like it would be appropriate to dump them on our adult kids. I think we spent around $90 for 3-11 inch pizzas. I'm sure including shipping but dang, about $30 for a pizza that was so amazingly poor quality. They will never get our business again. And looking at other reviews it looks like we're not alone.

I only gave Gino's pizza a "2" because of the tons and tons of salt it contains. I'm on a low salt diet becaue of my heart. We make our own deep dish pizza without salt it it tastes great. My niece sent me Gino's pizza for my birthday. One serving contains 530 mg of sodium, however that is 1/10 of the pizza. Who cuts a pizza into 10 pieces. This is very deceptive. Most will cut a pizza into 8 pieces and that is equal to 662 mgs of sodium per piece. The whole pixxa has 5,300 mg of sodium. That is enough for almost 3 days worth. I wish they would get that sodium way, way down. Most people do NOT want all that sodium!

I was expecting to get 3 different pizzas (cheese, sausage, and supreme), but the sausage was replaced with an extra cheese. They were good, but I was expecting to get what I paid for.

I find the flavors good, with nice proportion of cheese to sauce and crust. Nice fennel, subtle oregano, and tasty tomato. The toppings seem a little sparse. I top a little Parmesan and extra mozzarella a minute before it's done for decadence. The crust is chewy inside and crispy outside. Never been to Chicago, but this pizza makes me curious to go and try Gino's East fresh.

We've had several over the years, and I always had a "meh" reaction, but if you follow the directions exactly, it's a long cook time, but it turns out beautifully. If you leave this cooking too long at the high heat, the cheese dries up and the crust hardens, and may even blacken. But if you follow the full bake directions and let this cook on a high rack at the forty minutes or so, it makes a world of difference, and it's definitely not "meh." It's really, really good. I think I see people discussing both the restaurant and the frozen product on here. I've only had the frozen Gino's East, I've never been to the restaurant. Having had one of these properly cooked at the right bake time, I'd actually now like to try it. I'd find it hard to think it could beat Connie's, no matter how good it is.

Did not but frozen. Bad pizza experience.After awesome reviews and recommendations from friends to try this place we decided to stop by. We are from NY and visiting Chicago for the first time.The place looks cool with writing on the walls and it's very clean. Friendly staff also. It was loud for our us though and the tables were wobbly.We knew we would have to wait about an hour for a deep dish pizza which was fine because it was "worth the wait."So we started with the spinach and artichoke dip which was awesome. Didn't take like spinach and the cheese was awesome. I'm not a huge fan of spinach but I would order this again.Place our order and began counting down. Pizza finally came and it smelt delicious. One meat lovers (forget exact name) and four cheese. Everything was great until they told me they put spinach in my four cheese. I said I didn't order that with spinach. They server guy pushes me to try it anyway and he would send over our waitress.I couldn't eat my deep dish pizza I just waited an hour for. I would have tried to suffer through the spinach taste but it was just too over powering to do so. The waitress did feel bad and asked if she could get me anything else. But by that time my two other family members were almost done eating and were beginning to feel full.The waitress asked me if I could eat some of the meat pizza that was left and I said no I ordered the cheese pizza separately because I don't like anything in the meat pizza. We didn't have time to order another pizza and wait another hour so my family could watch me eat.The purpose of eating out is to eat together. So I got to watch my Aunt and Cousin eat their dinner. I left hungry. Granted they didn't charge me for my pizza. Great. But why should I pay for something I didn't eat?As I said it's loud inside so make sure you repeat your order 2X times before the waitress walks away.On our way out the same waitress was boxing up another tables order and knocked a soda over on the lady's lap. The tables are wobbly--be careful you could leave hungry and wearing soda.Spend $54 with tip and $27 on parking for 3 well 2 people to eat. No worth it. Stay away!

Crust was like concrete, too much sauce, not much cheese, and the whole thing was really salty.

I've had this at from the grocery store (approx. 7.00 for this pizza), and it's pretty good. The saucy is very chunky and minimally spiced, which is exactly what I personally like. The crust is as hard as a rock, though, but I don't mind. The price they've got on this package is a joke, though. Nobody in their right mind would pay $72 for 3 pizzas.