Pizza House

If you go to Pizza House in Ann Arbor, all you need to do is make sure you order two things. Start it up with one order of Chipati bread with your choice of sauce on the side, and one order of pizza, preferably either the Chicago Deep Dish or the Chicago Stuffed Pizzas. These are what put this place on the map.

Chipati Bread and Chipati Sauce

The Chipati is actually named after an Indian griddle fried flat bread that tastes like something you’d get from a wheat bun and a fresh pita bread doing it on prom night.  TWO TIMES.  I never thought a plain plate of bread could be so satisfying, and likely doubly so on a cold winter Michigan night.  The Chipati sauce tastes like a mix between Thousand Island and Ranch dressing, but I preferred the tart taste of the house Ranch on my bread instead.

Chicago Stuffed Pizza

Jen and I split a small Chicago Stuffed with spinach and onions, half with tomatoes for her, and half with ham for me.  The stuffed pizzas take a while to make, so make sure you’re savoring every bit of that Chipati.  Luckily for us, we caught the restaurant in between dinner and bar closing hours, so the place was empty enough for us to get our food into our mouths quicker than Sally Struthers with a feedbag strapped to her face. 

The pizza has a delicious soft wheat crust, stuffed with the toppings of your choice, coated with fresh Michigan mozzarella cheese and filled with fresh chopped tomato sauce.  It’s then covered with ANOTHER wheat crust and then covered one more time with a layer of fresh chopped tomato sauce.  The ingredients in this deep dish behemoth are nothing but quality.  Jen didn’t care must for the crust after eating the main part of the pizza, but I happily gave them a good home for her. I can honestly say that this was the the best pizza I’ve had in years, if not ever.  Nothing tastes like it comes from a can, a bottle, or as if it was mixed with high fructose corn syrup to save a few pennies for the house. To me, the Chicago Stuffed was almost a little overwhelming, but I’d venture to say that the Chicago Deep Dish is spot on what I’m looking for. Guess there’s only one way to find out.

For me, this makes an absolute must for foodies. View a map of Pizza House here.