The Original Chicago Pizza Tour

I was excited about doing this tour as soon as I read it and I was not disappointed. John is great and knows his pizza. The route he picked for our group was great. He is full of information not only about pizza but about Chicago. I have recommend this tour to several friends. I would like to do the night tour.

It's not easy to find an activity that engages both adults & teens equally, but the Chicago Pizza Tour does it! We had a great time having great pizza!

John does a great job of showing you a variety of pizza styles & and makes the tour very entertaining!

This was a great tour... Not only were we provided with different styles/types of pizza, but we were also given some history on the owners, recipes and a bit of Chicago history. It was definitely a pizza experience, and a lot of fun!

My wife and I had some guests in from Iowa and thought this would be a good tour to show them a variety Chicago places. Boy, were we dissappointed. This should have been called the Chicago "Cheese" pizza tour. We had hoped to sample different pizzas and toppings from each location. We started at Pizano's and got a sliver of garlic and one square of thin crust cheese. We then went to Coalfire and had their famous Margherita Pizza, it was good but one slice of paper thin crust wasn't enough. Next we went to redFlame and had the quatro fromaggio. This was my favorite, but one slice of one kind of pizza. We ended the tour at Gino's East, finally we'll get a slice of their famous Sausage Pie. Nope, we got a slice of cheese pizza. No one goes to Gino's for cheese pizza. We had a group of four people and spent a total of $240 for the equivalent of one large pizza between all of us. That is a lot to spend on Cheese pizza. There were some vegetarians in the group, and maybe they catered to them. Or maybe this is the regular pizzas they serve. The tour guide did a good job, that is why I didn't give 1 star. A bit of advice for the future, get a variety of pizzas and give samples of each. As a group we didn't enjoy spending that much money to go somewhere after the tour to get more food because we were all still hungry.

Chicago-deepdish-that's not all there is to the Chicago Pizza Tour! The three hours flew by on the delightfully narrated trip to four different pizza parlors in four different areas of Chicago. Sheer indulgence for the pizza foodie. John gave a great narration and worked diligently to make the trip enjoyable and heard by everyone. We missed out on the Pizza van as it was a hot holiday weekend and more participants so we were on a trolley which was not as expected-the van looked like more fun and cooler, but the pizza was fantastic. The Malnati's choice of crusts made a world of difference. The coal oven pizza was especially impressive, and the grilled pizza surprisingly tasty. One of our group preferred the deep dish at the East Coast, but the rest of us preferred the more esoteric choices. Just a matter of taste as no one left a morsel anywhere. We would have preferred one place provided a pizza other than plain cheese or marguerita just for the experience, as there were questions about choice of toppings and we only experienced one. We were ,however, edified about the crust by Jhn and that certainly enhanced our appreciation. Over all, a treat! Am recommending the tour to any and all friends traveling to Chicago. Great fun!

I enjoyed the tour, our guide was great really friendly and knowledgeable. Only thing was almost evey pizza we tried was no meat so it sucked. Not sure if it was cause we had so many vegetarians on our tour, there were about 9 of them. Should of had 2 different kinds of pizza or at least did 2 out of 4 stops with meat. That is my only complaint would recommend this tour other than that. I have friends coming to Chicago in a couple of weeks and would really like to know if this was the normal thing to have no meat pizza's.

This is a great tour for locals and visitors alike. Great opportunity to learn about the different approaches/styles of each pizzeria. John (tour owner) gives a background of each pizzeria plus a little Chicago history as well. Highly recommend!

The variety and quality of pizza was impressive. The guide was very passionate about his job and that really came through in the tour. He promised to finish us off and he didn't disappoint!

The tour was awesome!!! Great history and super great pizza.....I would recommend this tour to anyone. Excellent job!!!