My Pie Pizza

Ratings Guide:
Half handshake, half chest-bump hug – 5 stars
Chest bump – 4 stars
Fist bump – 3 stars
High five – 2 stars
Handshake – 1 star
Fone and fone – 0 stars
Manly ass slap – ½ star


Restaurant: My Pie Pizza
Locations: 2010 N. Damen or 2417 N. Clark


I lived in St. Louis for several years, and went to school in Missouri for the four years before that. And down there, when it comes to pizza or cutting the blackjack deck in the shadiest casinos in the country, the saying is, “Thin to win.” So, needless to say, pizza in St. Louis is like a cracker covered in tomato sauce and cheese. It’s almost the perfect finger food, but if you’re looking for a meal you need to order like 3 or 4 pizzas, and that’s just for you. If you have a couple friends over, you’ll need about 20 pizzas, so you’ll end up dropping $200 and two hours later be hungry again.

Where was I going there? Oh, so My Pie Pizza does thin crust and stuffed pizza. I almost always order the thin crust pizza. And it really is just like St. Louis style pizza, except My Pie uses mozzarella cheese, while St. Louis is famous for topping their pizza off with some other crappy cheese that sticks to the roof of your mouth and makes you want to swallow your tongue. Anyway, I really like the thin crust pizza at My Pie. You can order a large, and kill it in one sitting, sit on your couch, drink a beer, and be perfectly satisfied (at least for an hour or so).

I’ve had their stuffed pizza one time, and it was OK, but there are so many great stuffed pizza places in the city, that it’s not worth wasting your time on My Pie’s stuffed pizza. Stick with their thin crust. It’s really good. I order it a lot for a pizza fix that’s a little less filling.

It’s a good fist bump with a manly ass slap.