The Pizza’s in the Mail

If you put all the pizzas that will be eaten in America today end to end, they would stretch across 90 acres. On the other hand, if we here on the West Coast were actually eating our fair share, the pizzas would cover even more ground. Because the sad truth is that we only eat pizza 20 times a year. Chicago, on the other hand, eats almost twice that much. And no wonder--when the city’s got Lou Malnati.

Malnati’s Chicago-style pizzas are thick-crusted pies--topped with fresh tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella and maybe pepperoni or sausage--baked in brick-lined ovens. They are hefty pies, quite unlike the effete appetizer models topped with fancy ingredients that are so common in these parts. Malnati’s manly pies make a full-meal.

Malnati pizzas are only available in the five Lou Malnati restaurants and three carryout stores sprinkled throughout Chicago and its suburbs. But for $34.95 the restaurant will send two 9-inch deep-dish pies by Federal Express anywhere in the Continental United States; if you don’t think the pizzas are the best, the restaurant will gladly refund your money.

Think of it this way: It beats the price of a plane ticket to Chicago.

* Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria, 6649 N. Lincoln Ave., Lincolnwood, Ill. 60645. (800) 4-MALNAT

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