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Great Lake 

1477 W. Balmoral Ave.
Chicago, IL 60640-1201
Andersonville
773-334-9270

Hours: Dinner: Wednesday-Saturday
Closed Sunday-Tuesday
Tiny, extraordinary specialty market and neighborhood pizzeria.

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Our Review

You can’t say that Great Lake hasn’t nailed its niche. Operating out of a tiny Andersonville storefront, it offers pizza, in five different variations, to take out or eat in at the restaurant’s small communal table. Period. But, oh, what pizza it is. Made to order from meticulously sourced ingredients—everything on the menu has a pedigree—the pies are perfectly balanced. The #2 features creamy pools of house-made mozzarella, sopressata straight from New York’s Salumeria Biellese, and a light fresh tomato puree atop a chewy, slightly salty crust. Other options showcase earthy cremini mushrooms and raw cow’s milk cheese or hickory smoked bacon, creme fraiche, onion, and sage. Warning: the pizza oven is as small as the rest of the place, and can only handle a few pies at a time, but owners Lydia Esparza and Nick Lessins do their best to give you an accurate wait time. Frankly, it’s worth it.

— Martha Bayne

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Price: $$
Payment Type: MasterCard, Visa

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  • Farmers Market Salad

    local and seasonal greens or vegetables, la nogalera walnuts, sel gris de guerande (grey sea salt) with homemade dressing: herb/buttermilk or mustard vinaigrette

    12.00

  • Tomato Sauce, Farmers Cheese, Dante Cheese

    eden foods organic tomatoes, cedar grove organic farmers cheese, wisconsin sheep dairy co-op (wsdc) dante aged sheep's milk cheese, california olive ranch (cor) arbequina extra virgin olive oil, fresh herbs, sel gris de guerande (grey sea salt)

    23.00
    W/ Garlic (nichols Farm) Add:  4.00
    W/ Tropea Onion (genesis Growers) Add:  4.00
    W/ Mortadella (butcher & Larder) Add:  5.00

  • Local & Regional Supplier Farmers And Producers

    genesis growers (produce), il; three sisters garden (produce), il; tomato mountain farm (organic produce) - wi; eden organic (organic tomatoes), mi/ont; heartland mill (organic wheat flour), ks; la nogalera walnuts (walnuts/walnut oil), ca; wisconsin sheep dairy co-op (cheese), wi; cedar grove cheese (organic cheese), wi; kilgus farmstead (farmstead dairy), il; kalona supernatural (organic dairy), ia; butcher & larder (pastured pork), chicago; la quercia (pastured pork), ia

  • Salad Special Of The Week

    ask for more info

  • Sweet Corn, Smoked Bacon, Tropea Onion, Creme Fraiche, Chive

    genesis growers and klug farm sweet corn, la quercia smoked bacon, genesis growers tropea onion, homemade creme fraiche (kilgus farmstead + kalona supernatural), tellicherry black pepper, sel gris de guerande (grey sea salt)

    25.00
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