One was a sucker for thin crust pizzas like so many others until a really thick crust pizza was dug into, one fine afternoon at Uno®Chicago Bar & Grill. Farmers Market Pizza had a high-edge and a crust of spinach, corn and brinjal and seemed as if you are digging into a pie.
- Upper Ground Floor, Forum Shantiniketan, Whitefield
- Meal for two: ₹1,300
- Décor: Bright lit interiors with warm inviting vibe
- USP: Farmers Market deep- dish pizza
There are different kinds of pizzas -- thin crust, thick crust and flat-bread -- which are further divided into various styles. Here, the pizza in question is a deep-dish pizza, a thick crust pizza, known to have its moorings in Chicago.
Other deep dish pizzas on their roster are Uno cheese and tomato, the blazing hot, BBQ roasted mushroom, Numero Uno, prima pepperoni and Chicago meat market.
Deep dish pizza is one of the signature dishes of Uno® Chicago Bar & Grill which started its story in 1943 and has three outlets in India. In Bengaluru, it kicked off its first outlet at Forum Shantiniketan, Whitefield, in December 2018.
The restaurant is largely about nuevo American cuisine and its other highlights include Uno® power salad and crispy honey chicken. In the appetizers section, you can choose from pizza skins, spinach and artichoke dip, chipotle cottage cheese skewers, spicy calamari, chicken meatballs, chipotle chicken skewers and rock prawn dynamite.
An expansive section of entrées and grills offer spinach cottage cheese steak, crusted chicken parmesan and grilled lemon basil salmon and in pastas, you can go for rattlesnake fettuccine pasta, chicken spinocolli® pasta and prawn campi pasta. Unlike in popular American fast-food joints, where vegetarians have fewer options to choose from, Kesho Yadav, General Manager, says that the menu at Uno® Chicago Bar & Grill, isn't tilted in favour of non-vegetarians.
Its Tuesdays are dedicated to children with a special kids menu having one starter, one mocktail and one pizza. They are even encouraged to make their own pizzas.
Yadav says, the restaurant does not want to be just an eating out place but be a catalyst for connecting people. “So, we are planning to start cookery classes for those who want to learn how to make deep-dish pizzas, how to make their dough. We also do kitty parties and soon will have retro nights,” says Yadav.
