***THE BEST CHICAGO DEEP DISH PIZZA IN KENTUCKY/INDIANA/OHIO*** I'm a deep dish expert, I've eaten at every one of the big restaurants in Chicago. Let me tell you... This pie absolutely knocked my socks off, and I cannot believe it's located in a "hole-in-the wall" building in Simpsonville KY. Holy smokes, I'd eat this pie if it was served in a porta-potty! Service was great and I took the pizza home to try it. The sauce was insane! I just can't get over this pie. read more

Chi-Pie - Pizza Near Me - Simpsonville, Kentucky

Dropped in for an early dinner on a Saturday after some outlet mall shopping. The restaurant is on the smaller side, with about 10 chairs at the bar and six tables that could seat 4-6 people. The place filled up quickly and by the time we left- a little before 6- there was a wait for tables. One party of 12 came in then decided to go elsewhere when it was clear they could not all sit together. We ordered a deep dish pizza with green peppers. The menu lets you know it'll be a 30 minute wait. I ordered a cup of chicken noodle soup for my appetizer and my companion had the meatballs. The soup was simple and tasty. My companion enjoyed the meatballs. I've spent a considerable amount of time in Chicago and enjoyed deep dish pizza there multiple times. This was not exactly the same, but close enough out of anything I've tried in the Louisville area and good enough to return. read more

I'm generally not a fan of deep-dish pizza. We got the tavern style thin crust. Very good. Good sauce. Not too many toppings. Haven't really tried anything else, but we'll be back. read more

This place has been hyped up quite a bit for being "true" Chicago Tavern thin style. Is this true? I'd say that's a big fat "sorta." It's thin crust, alright. You can also tell the crust is dry aged which gives it that stale cracker flavor around the edges. The problem is the crust itself isn't crispy except around the outside inch of the pizza, at most. We got the 14" pizza and the outer corner pieces were crispy, but the normal edge pieces weren't crispy at all on the inside edges. I would call the texture firm, but no crisp at all. The inner pieces were 100% floppy. The other problem I had was with the toppings. The pepperoni didn't have a lot of flavor, and there were way too many onions. The diced pieces were all clumped together like they didn't bother to separate out the pieces after dicing them, or maybe the knife didn't cut all the way through which caused them to not be able to separate. Regardless of all of that, I would have preferred a finer dice and fewer onions. Other than the pepperoni, the other toppings weren't distributed evenly at all. There were numerous pieces that were covered in onions to the point where that was all you could taste. The cheese was good, but we emphasized wanting the pizza well done, and even mentioned liking the cheese partially browned, which I feel is kinda how Tavern Thin should always be. It wasn't browned up at all, but even if it had come out well done, I don't think it would have made the pizza any more crispy. I think their cooking method needs more adjusting than just adding more time to fix the lack of crisp. Unfortunately I was really hoping for something better, so I don't think I will be making the trek out to Simpsonville (from Louisville) to have another go. But those meatballs!!! The meatballs are f'ing delicious. Probably the best I've ever had at a restaurant, and I am very, very picky about meatballs. I'd recommend the spaghetti and meatballs over the pizza, bar none. read more

Can I be brave and say something controversial? The Detroit style pizza at Chi-Pis is better than the Chicago deep dish. I know, right?! But it's true. The deep dish didn't look bad, but the large amounts of sauce that are necessary for a dish this deep weren't thick enough and it came off as a lil wet. The thin crust, however, crispy, well portioned with toppings. Great! Service was great! However, I don't know how they cook the pies because each came out one at a time with several minutes between. This isn't a big deal with a party sharing food, but for our party that each ordered its own food, there was about 25-30 minutes between when the first person was served and the last. I... I was the last. And I was sad. The small pizza was enough for at least two meals for me. These are big pies! read more

Chi-Pie - Detroit style - Pizza Near Me - Simpsonville, Kentucky

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Holy cow!!! They did it, spot on Chicago style deep dish. I have been to several pizza spots in Chicago and this is on par with them. The crust is nice and crisp on top and sturdy enough to make it to your plate. Love that the first layer is cheese, then the toppings, followed by a chunky tomato sauce with a dusting of Parmesan. Take notice if you order carry out you need to cut it at home. Best way to transport Chicago deep dish. Order Gio... pizza delivery in Chicago once, asked for it to be cut, and got a hot mess in a box. Lol Tavern style is perfect as well, cut into perfectly odd shaped squares. Haha I have always ordered carry out but my brief interactions with the staff have been good. Gave me a water and kept it topped off while waiting. If you want to taste real Chicago style pizza without having to travel 5+ hours, eat here. read more

So we ordered carry out and I asked before the call ended to leave the pizzas uncut. She told me that's the way they do it anyway which is a must for carry out deep dish, so good on them for that. My daughter had the spaghetti & meatballs which she enjoyed, and we ordered two deep dish pizzas. One was a sausage, mushroom & banana pepper and the other was a deep dish cheeseburger. The cheeseburger didn't have much flavor and was a little disappointing but the sausage, mushroom & banana pepper was very good. We also got an order of the stuffed bread which was delicious. When they tell you what each pizza feeds, they mean it and we'll be eating left overs for days. The parking lot isn't easy to navigate and pulling out onto 1848 can be tricky. Also our bill was almost $90.00 which seemed high for what we got. read more

Chi-Pie - Large deep dish with sausage, mushrooms & banana peppers - Pizza Near Me - Simpsonville, Kentucky

First time here we started with the stuffed garlic bread. My wife went with the spaghetti and meatballs. While I went with the small southsider deep dish sausage pepperoni and ham. This is why we came to try and we are so excited. This is a Military friendly restaurant. If you want Chicago style in Kentucky this hidden golden gem is what you're looking for. read more

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Tried this place for the first time last night. It's rather small but we were able to snag an empty table. Ordered a couple beers, the bruschetta, and a deep dish Chi-Pie. Food was excellent and the service was even better. Our server was attentive, thorough, and we never had to ask for anything. Best service we've ever had at a sit-down restaurant, including fancy places like Jeff Ruby's, Malone's, and Volare. Looking forward to coming back and trying a Tavern Style pie. Check this place out and thank me later! read more

I was very excited to see we were getting a new restaurant. The first time I stopped by they were sold out and I know this happens sometimes when you're launching a new restaurant. This time we were able to sit down and eat. I ordered the tavern style pizza and a salad. My friend ordered the deep dish where the menu warns there is a 30 minute wait for a deep dish. The salad was very fresh, and the waitress was happy to accommodate my picky topping removal. The Tavern style pizza was delicious with a crispy crust. My friend's deep dish pizza ended up taking an hour. She was given a little over five dollars off of her order to accommodate the wait and the waitress apologized. Our server was really friendly and helpful. Although I do wish the bar had been open, because having a nice drink would've helped with the wait. We are definitely going to try to come back again because the food was great! Pro tip, call in pre-order your deep dish before you arrive. read more

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Absolutely amazing deep dish pizza every single time totally worth the drive. Can't wait to go back.

Me, my mom and my brothers girlfriend got there a few minutes before they opened and there was just one group of maybe 6 or 7 people ahead of us. We wanted to order carry out so we sat at the bar. Very nice atmosphere! Clean, well decorated. Friendly and welcoming staff! My mom got the Mandarin Salad - delicious and very different! I forgot to take a picture of it but we did sub out the blue cheese for cheddar for personal preference. In total for pizza we got a small deep dish, large tavern style specialty bbq chicken, and large tavern style pepperoni and sausage. My brother's girlfriend also got some of the stuffed garlic bread (not pictured). Pizza was very tasteful as well. The pizza sauce tastes so fresh and organic! No artificial ingredients or junk! I think this place will see a lot of success! Everything was fresh and delicious. They do have their liquor license now as well so that's a plus if you are into that. Even considering the 30 minute wait for the deep dish (this is stated on the menu), along with it getting busier by the minute, to-go orders being placed and picked up, we were headed back to the car by 3:30! Amazing service and food! I'll definitely be getting this again! read more

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The pizza was really good! I tried the deep dish and thin crust. Both were really good. There's a very nice bar and about 5 beers on tap! Since it's deep dish, come a little bit before you're hungry because it takes a little while for the pizza to be done. There's server was really nice and kept our drinks filled! read more

Chi-Pie - Deep dish pizza - Pizza Near Me - Simpsonville, Kentucky

Placed an online order after not getting thru on the phone. Easy ordering on line. Parking is not the best. Only about 12 spots in the lot, the rest is street parking. Very nice inside. Full house when we picked up our pizza. Just one or 2 empty seats at the bar. Got the deep dish chi pie special with sausage. It did not disappoint. Lots of flavor. We will be ordering again read more

This is a great addition to the local food scene!! The service was excellent and bar had a good selection of tap beers. read more

Chi-Pie - Classic deep dish with pepperoni - Pizza Near Me - Simpsonville, Kentucky

Our party of four arrived at 6pm on Saturday night. Walked in to a busy restaurant with only one (dirty) table available. There were four employees in the dining area (two behind the bar and two servers). NOT ONE of them looked at us or greeted us and we stood for five minutes and then decided to take our business elsewhere. Great food at this place but TERRIBLE hospitality. #dobetter read more

Visited with friends tonight and ended up closing the place down -- sorry about that! The food was outstanding, the drinks came out quickly, the wine was great, and the beer was ice-cold. What really stood out, though, was the service. A small issue popped up -- something we honestly wouldn't have noticed right away -- but our server, Lauren, caught it immediately and fixed it without us even saying a word. That level of attention says everything. Ignore the early negative reviews. Every new business needs time to settle in, and Chi Pie has clearly found its stride. We'll definitely be back. read more

Chi Pie - Worst & Most Expensive Pizza in Simpsonville!!! First: Your choices are, get a deep dish or a paper-thin crust. They say their Chi Pie specialty is Chicago Style Pizza. Based on my experience, I wonder if they have ever been to Chicago or ever had a Chicago Style Pizza. Ever!!! I tried their best pizza, Chicago Deep Dish ($46.00 for that mess) and picked olives (blk & grn), sausage, pepperoni, and cheese for my toppings. Well, turns out it is a high back thin crust pizza, overwhelmed with sauce to cover the fact of the extreme lack of toppings you are charged heavily for. Barely, and I mean barely any cheese. Meats were underneath all the tons of sauce (Pepperoni were soggy) next to the very soggy thin crust on the bottom that fell apart. Extreme thin side crust was brittle and broke easily. I barley got a piece out of the box and it was a mess doing so. BUT It was hot after 30 minutes of waiting. Seriously, THE WORST PIZZA I have ever had, and I am a pizza connoisseur. The WORST EXCUSE OF CHICAGO STYLE, ever AND to top it off. $46.00 for that mess. Just for a high-backed thin crust (Sauced) pizza. I've had Chicago pizza, and this was no Chicago pizza. Fraudulent to even call it that in my opinion. read more

Great pizza and great service in a clean place with a nice ambiance. The thin crust is cracker thin and a perfect topping and sauce delivery method. The sauce was delicious! We'll be back. Can't wait to try the deep dish. read more

Chicago native here, and I was unfortunately pretty disappointed. We ordered a deep dish pizza, a thin crust pizza, and the stuffed garlic bread. We made an online order and the site said our order would be ready at 6:33 PM. We show up at that time, and they inform us that it will be another HOUR before our order is ready and that the pick up time on the site is when they "start cooking our order." They either are making up excuses or they are not aware of what their website shows customers. So, we go back in an hour, and our order is just sitting on the counter. At that point, we realize they don't have any sort of warmer for their pizzas. We live only 7 minutes away from the store and our pizzas were not hot at all so they had clearly been sitting out for a while before we picked them up. The pizzas themselves were skimpy on toppings, and the deep dish pizza was not deep, had very, very little cheese, and the sauce was just chunks of tomato. The thin crust was better than the deep dish but there are better places to get thin crust around here. And then the stuffed garlic bread was just a hoagie roll with some cheese in it, barely tasted any garlic. To me, not worth the money or time to get take out here. read more

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Very good Tavern Pizza!! The Chicago style is good if you like tomatoes!! A lot of Tomatoes!! The were both really good but we prefer the tavern style thin crust! read more

Chi Pie deserves more than 5 stars! They have a wonderful Mandarin Salad with a house made Mandarin Vinaigrette dressing. Really good! Also, the tavern style pizza was delicious! Glad we found this restaurant? Service was great also. We will definitely be back! read more

So I am originally from Chicago. Nice place , good atmosphere. Let's start with the sauce 4.5 very good. Cheese also 4.5 good quality not greasy Sausage and toppings 4.5 solid very good! Get the sausage! That's what Chicago people eat. Crust 3 not terrible but definitely lacks on the right flavor. The crust is weakest part of the pizza. It's better in the deep dish than thin crust. Versus Louisville area pizza this deep dish pizza scores a 4.5. In Chicago this would be a 3.5. The thin crust vs Chicago would be a 3 the crust is the issue. Other food is solid 4 -4.5 on other things we had. Next visit we will try the pasta because it looked good! read more

We ordered the tavern style pizza and salad-both were delicious. Service was great. It's really loud in there-had a hard time hearing the people sitting across from me. read more

Another tasty dinner! I am normally not a deep dish pizza fan, but this pizza is next level good! The cheese bread is a must order every time too! Delicious! read more

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We found this place while looking for a lunch spot close to home... maybe it was a bad day but the wait time was rough. The place wasn't packed but the time to order and receive the food was over an hour. One of our pizzas had to be remade due to not getting the order right. read more

We can in with a group of 10 on a Saturday night, stretching them to the limit and they came in. Delicious!!!!!

The restaurant space was open and inviting. The menu had a lot of options (not just pizza) for fair prices. We got the spicy garlic bread appetizer which could have used a lot more jalapeños in it but the Marinara sauce was nice. Ordered a deep dish with sausage, onions, mushrooms, olives, pepperoni. It was very good. Lots of gooey cheese, the sauce was again fresh and lightly acidic to balance the richness of the cheese and toppings. Only thing I would change is the crust is more cracker-like than flakey/buttery like in Chicago, where I grew up. This is a very good pizza when comparing that to a original UNO's or other pizzerias in Chicago. Glad I found a place to get my fix for deep dish. read more

Found this little gem hidden in Simpsonville and have been back twice. Both times service was great and food was exellent.

The food was delicious! Our daughter lives close by and we'll definitely be back next time we visit!

Me and my family came here yesterday and I gotta say i am impressed. That deep dish was so good my whole family said they loved and we would be coming back. The service was great, our sever was very nice to use even gave an apple juice on the rocks. Also this place used to be a restaurant but I don't even now if you could call it that because of how trashy it was. They now have really cool lights with nice flooring instead of no lights and dirt floors. 5/5 will be back. read more

Excellent pizza and pasta! we had the mushroom soup and it was very good. Thumbs up! We have eaten here twice now and we have really enjoyed it both times. Prices are reasonable as well. Bring a coat s it is a little chilly inside. It has a hole-in-the-wall vibe, cool! read more

The pizza is great, dine in or carryout! Highly recommended the deep dish...the tomato sauce is light and fresh. The thin crust is awesome as well! read more

This place just opened so we went in to check it out. We ordered the meatball appetizers which were excellent. We ordered two thin crust pizzas and both were very good. Service and food were all excellent. read more

Don't waste your money. Walked in at 6:45, ordered at 6:50 because it takes 30 minutes for a deep dish. We also ordered a thin crust. At 7:30 they brought us out a thin crust pizza but it wasn't what we ordered. At 7:50 we got the thin crust we ordered but half of it was not cut. A little later our deep dish came to the table. It wasn't hot and they were very stingy on the ingredient. It had very little cheese. We had to ask for refills several times. they seemed to prioritize the carry out pizzas. They did not discount the bill for the wait or the poor service. The experience cost $80+ dollars. I will not go back and I will tell my friends about the experience. The ambiance was lacking they had 1 small television with the U of L game on it. So I will say don't bother Jeptha Creed has better pizza a couple of miles down the road. read more

this is the real deal ! kind of a long wait time, but absolutely worth the wait ! only downside is, limited parking in rear of building & cramped. best pizza around, hands down !! read more