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Paterno's Pizza

3.7 (137 reviews)
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Moderate noise
Divey
Casual
Dogs allowed

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My favorite bar when visiting Chicago!!
Michael H.

Love this place! My daughter lives a couple of blocks away and we always go to Paterno's when we visit. I've had a couple of burgers and finally tried the pizza on our most recent trip. Honestly, this is some of the best pizza I've had on our many trips to Chicago. We went this past Friday night and loved our meatball pizza, pitchers, and live music. Service is always on point and very friendly. Love the old school feel of Paterno's!!

Fuel for the flight home.
Meanole M.

Great food. Great service. Great beer. Friendly locals. This restaurant bar is just a few blocks away from my daughter's apartment in Jefferson Park and was our last stop before leaving Chicago a couple of weeks ago. We had a late flight back to Jax, so we had a late lunch here. Started with a cheap pitcher of good beer. Lynette, the bartender, was awesome! I had the bacon Bleu cheese burger. Very, very good. Restaurant was clean and well organized. We sat at a table, but I loved the huge old school horseshoe shaped bar. Great specials. I will definitely return when we go visit my da

Pizza so bad I had to use hot sauce to make it palatable
Margaret W.

It was really expensive, the chicken wings gave me indigestion, majorly. The anchovies on the Greek salad were aweful, the pizza was not up to Paternos standards. Will not order from them again anytime soon

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Amanda G.

Ok was recommended to visit this location. And my friend gave me the directions. You go to windows order then sit down. So she told me of a 3 things that would fit my taste that day. I did end up with a sub sandwich. It was fantastic. Great flavors and right portions of product. The only complaint is maybe all the meat folded in half at the bottom is hard to eat. Too all bread maybe make the sandwich flat lol. The slaw had perfect flavor for me. Right balance. I had a beer at the bar as I waited. I want to go back and try the pizza or wings. And the meals looked fantastic. If I am in the area I will go back. My son got the other half of my sandwich because it was so big. So two meals one sandwich. I did take a minute to get served at the bar as it was busy. Bartender was great. And friendly. Definitely a perfect set up food and drinks. With nice people working there. A rare. Find.

Pepperoni Pizza Slice
Alex B.

Paterno's pizza is a Chicago Bears Bar that is located north of the city. This is a divey sports bar that many Chicagoans call home. In my experience there, you could tell that the other people dining / drinking were regulars, but not stand off ish towards new people, which can happen at bars similar to this one. As for the Pizza, well this was one of the best tavern style pizzas that I have had. It was thicker than most, but that didn't take away the unforgettable crisp that was present in every single bite! This pizza 100% will be ordered again. My only critique of Paternos is that the beers on tap here were flat, but the bottles of coors had blue mountains and a crisp taste. (Also the coors lights only cost $2.50) My friends and I will be going back to this bar at some point in the football season to spend our entire Sunday here.

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12 years ago

Burgers are great, chicken Parmesan sandwich is very good too. Pizza is not the best though. I recommend highly!

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Stopped by for a quick drink the other night. The service is great, the staff is nice, and the food is tasty. Good stuff!

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beef was GREAT! pizza was pretty good, service fair

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Tommy's On Higgins - Check out our brand new pool table, perfect for hustlin' your buddies while you crush some wings and ice-cold beers at Tommy's on Higgins!

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3.7(41 reviews)
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(Kari's Rating 7.75/10)…read more TLDR -Delicious & cheap bone-in wings (18 for $22) -Local bar with tons of personality -Personable staff Came with a friend around 8 o'clock, bar was pretty crowded for a Monday with a bunch of locals watching the Cubs game. Not many people were eating, but it looked like a lot of friends here after a long day of work. Our server, Alex was extremely personable and she took our orders right away. As it was a Monday, neither of us were drinking, but she promptly brought two ice waters. I had mentioned to her that I had been here six or seven years ago, and she also said she had been here since. We came here only for the wings as I remembered and 18 wings for $22 is an amazing deal! We got six hot wings, six buffalo wings and Alex recommended the last set of wings be Cajun. There was a group of eight men at the bar, enjoying the baseball game, and I have to assume they're local by the way they were talking to each other and conversing with the bartender. I can imagine this place gets pretty busy on a Friday or Saturday evening with locals. This is such a fun dive bar feeling, with the decor being very mom and pop shop, but it also felt like there was a lot of history here-like people would fight for this bar, not to shut down. You know the space has personality and charm as Alex then chased down a lady who just left to give her her the forgotten leftovers. As our food came out relatively fast, the hot and the buffalo sauces were pretty similar, but the sauce was very thin, so it didn't clean to the wings that well. The wings were fresh and really crispy so you know they were made to order which was great. The Cajun was the absolute best as it was a dry rub, however, I feel like they should've tossed it in butter or something so the Cajun would stick as most of the seasoning had fallen off.

Local bar with good bar food. Bartender was friendly and chatty. This was on a Monday at…read morelunch...bar was pretty empty.

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