Nov. 12--Today is National Pizza Day, which is pretty lame as national days go (spoiler alert: they're all lame). But it's as good enough reason as any to remind ourselves of Chicago's incredible pizza bounty.
One of the oddest, yet satisfying pies in town is the "stelle" pizza at Dolce Italian (127 W. Huron St., 312-754-0700). Available evenings only, the stelle (Italian for star) is more a treatment than a specific kind of pizza. What the kitchen does is fold in the outer edges so that the entire pizza takes on a star shape; as a bonus, whipped ricotta is piped into each star point.
When the stelle treatment is applied to Dolce's tartufata pizza (a bianca pizza topped with speck, spicy salami and truffle oil), you get something special. And 5-8 p.m. Thursday in Dolce's bar, that pizza (dubbed the Startufata), ordinarily $26, is just $20.
Not a bad way to celebrate National Pizza Day. But there are others; see more of our favorite pizzas in the gallery above.
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