Piece Pizzeria - Brewery

(773) 772-7442

1927 W North Ave
Chicago, IL 60622 41.9104 -87.676

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Neighborhoods: Wicker Park, West Side

Price:

$

Last updated 5.07.10

Category:

Restaurants , Brew Pubs , Bars & Pubs

Payment Methods:

American Express , Visa , Discover , Diners Club , MasterCard

Bar & Pub Special Features:

Notable Beer List

Restaurant Special Features:

Notable Beer List , Family-Friendly Dining , Late Night Dining , People Watching , Lunch Spot , Date Spot , Group Dining , Live Music , Dine At The Bar , Bar Scene

General Info:

Open 7 Days

Cuisine:

Pizza

Smoking Permitted:

At Bar

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What People Are Saying About Piece Pizzeria - Brewery

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The Scene – A sports bar in Wicker Park? Not quite, but Piece comes close enough to make its hipster neighbors raise an eyebrow. Games are shown on a projection screen and on TVs above the curvy bar, and the professional crowd sports more Dockers than DKNY. But with its cement floor, multilevel seating and skylights, this pizza joint is still cooler than just about anything up in Wrigleyville. – – The Food – Die-hard deep-dish fans may scoff, but Piece's hand-formed pies have made believers out of Chicago pizza junkies. White pizza starts with olive oil, garlic and…

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When to Go:
Wednesdays feature live jazz starting at 8pm; Thursdays offer karaoke starting at 9:30pm, and live-band karaoke picks up on Saturdays.
What to Drink:
Piece brews its own beer, and has won awards for its Worryin' Ale and Golden Arm. There's also an international selection of bottles like Chimay, Leffe, Czechvar and a light Belgian brew called Delerium Tremens.
Save Money:
On Tuesdays, house drafts are just $3.
ambiance
87.5% positive
  1. “The price is not bad considering the location and the crowd is very diverse, making my experience a true joy!”
  2. “wonderful place to go to have fun with friends or catch a game on TV!”
  3. “parking on Friday was bad.”
  4. “Many better pizza options in the city with friendly servers and atmosphere.”
  5. “The atmosphere is great, i love the decor.”
  6. “The atmosphere in Piece is fun and pub-like.”
  7. “The crowd is very fun with all age groups.”
  8. “Whenever I go out with clients, I insist on going to "Piece" because the pizza is clearly the best in the world, the ambience is fantastic, and the beer is just awesome -- I get the most intense buzz after just two of those chippy micro-brews.”
dessert
100.0% positive
  1. “Great pie, BUT”
drinks
75.0% positive
  1. “Great beers (they brew themselves).”
  2. “When viewed as a large bar that happens to have pizza, Piece ain't so bad.”
  3. “Come for the beer, stay for the pizza and (on Saturdays) the obnoxious crowds singing with the live karaokee band.”
  4. “wouldn't recommend this place if you're just looking for a place to drink and hang out.”
  5. “Still some of the best pizza around, and nobody can touch their home brewed beers.”
  6. “servers/hosts. I am a bartender of 10 years now, and am amazed at how I can sit there on a slow Thursday night (July 5th - VERY slow) with 2 bartenders and constantly have to ask for drinks.”
  7. “great pizza and micro brewed beer in the same place.”
  8. “Gum ball beer is so yummy!”
  9. “The pizza was great and their award winning home brews were the best beers that I've ever tasted.”
  10. “Fabulous thin crust, great beer”
  11. “Good beer but prices are pretty steep.”
  12. “When I am near completed on a nice beer, offer another.”
  13. “The beer is amazing, I've never had a bad appetizer, and there are tv's everywhere.”
  14. “Th bar at Piece is a great place to get drunk and watch any game that is one, especially during any big games.”
  15. “Good beers and thin crust pizza”
  16. “If you did not serve amazing pizza and the best beer, I would likely stay in the South Loop because Bud Light and Jack Daniels tastes the same in hundreds of bars in Chicago.”
  17. “Ignore the Real World associations and the horribly slow service and go for the food and the great beer.”
  18. “Huge portions, fresh ingredients, and awesome beer.”
  19. “Whenever I go out with clients, I insist on going to "Piece" because the pizza is clearly the best in the world, the ambience is fantastic, and the beer is just awesome -- I get the most intense buzz after just two of those chippy micro-brews.”
  20. “Regardless, so long as there's good food, beer, and entertainment I couldn't care about a few slightly disgruntled workers.”
food quality
87.88000106811523% positive
  1. “Ignore the Real World associations and the horribly slow service and go for the food and the great beer.”
  2. “Again, the pizza was very good: the red sauce is not overwhelming; the clams/spinach combo worked well and the thin crust was perfect.”
  3. “love the pizza, i just cant get enough of it.”
  4. “Whenever I go out with clients, I insist on going to "Piece" because the pizza is clearly the best in the world, the ambience is fantastic, and the beer is just awesome -- I get the most intense buzz after just two of those chippy micro-brews.”
  5. “When viewed as a large bar that happens to have pizza, Piece ain't so bad.”
  6. “Regardless, so long as there's good food, beer, and entertainment I couldn't care about a few slightly disgruntled workers.”
  7. “Piece serves really great pies that provide a much-needed contrast to the heavy Chicago-style pizza that dominates the city.”
  8. “great pizza and micro brewed beer in the same place.”
  9. “Piece is not only the best pizza in Chicago, but I would go as far as saying that it is the best pizza in the country.”
  10. “Some of the best pizza in Chicago and a great place for anyone.”
  11. “Still some of the best pizza around, and nobody can touch their home brewed beers.”
  12. “In short, it's a fantastic place with great pizza and wonderful selection of brews.”
  13. “Piece is excellent and a much needed change from your traditional Chicago thin crust and deep dish.”
  14. “This is my favorite place to go in Chicago for East Coast style pizza.”
  15. “Good beers and thin crust pizza”
  16. “Many better pizza options in the city with friendly servers and atmosphere.”
  17. “like the pizza, nice thin crust, but it's no Lou Malnatti's.”
  18. “If you did not serve amazing pizza and the best beer, I would likely stay in the South Loop because Bud Light and Jack Daniels tastes the same in hundreds of bars in Chicago.”
  19. “In addition, the dough is more flavorful than the thin of most other pizza joints of any style in Chicago.”
  20. “The pizza, when it finally arrived, was damn good.”
  21. “As an East Coast transplant to Chicago, I have to say that this is some of the best thin-crust pizza I've ever tasted.”
  22. “Gum ball beer is so yummy!”
  23. “Great food, great neighborhood”
  24. “After being seated about 15 minutes later, the waiter was very pleasant, and we eventually got our pizza.”
  25. “The pizza here is great!”
  26. “Come for the beer, stay for the pizza and (on Saturdays) the obnoxious crowds singing with the live karaokee band.”
  27. “The pizza was great and their award winning home brews were the best beers that I've ever tasted.”
  28. “We didn't get pizza, but we did get some amazing homemade salsa and tortilla chips, and the best ceasar salad of my life (I didn't think a salad could be so amazing, but it was).”
  29. “The sauce is the perfect mixture of tangy & sweet.”
  30. “They have an awesome salad so it's good to get a large one and a pizza to share with like four people.”
  31. “very good pizza, bad service”
  32. “Huge portions, fresh ingredients, and awesome beer.”
  33. “However, the hostess' random sub-mediocrity just about ruined an otherwise good pizza experience.”
menu variety
100.0% positive
  1. “The price is not bad considering the location and the crowd is very diverse, making my experience a true joy!”
  2. “Ask us if we would like a menu?”
  3. “Many better pizza options in the city with friendly servers and atmosphere.”
  4. “In short, it's a fantastic place with great pizza and wonderful selection of brews.”
overall
100.0% positive
  1. “Some of the best pizza in Chicago and a great place for anyone.”
  2. “Th bar at Piece is a great place to get drunk and watch any game that is one, especially during any big games.”
  3. “It looks like a nice place to hang out.”
  4. “This is a great place for a casual night out with friends, as long as loud music is ok.”
  5. “great pizza and micro brewed beer in the same place.”
service
78.13000202178955% positive
  1. “very good pizza, bad service”
  2. “After being seated about 15 minutes later, the waiter was very pleasant, and we eventually got our pizza.”
  3. “Ignore the Real World associations and the horribly slow service and go for the food and the great beer.”
  4. “Everytime I've done this in a group, most people have preferred the unique creation.”
  5. “servers/hosts. I am a bartender of 10 years now, and am amazed at how I can sit there on a slow Thursday night (July 5th - VERY slow) with 2 bartenders and constantly have to ask for drinks.”
  6. “However, the hostess' random sub-mediocrity just about ruined an otherwise good pizza experience.”
  7. “They have an awesome salad so it's good to get a large one and a pizza to share with like four people.”
  8. “It is great for big groups, i went there with 20 people once.”
  9. “An added bonus, the neighborhood is very cute, and we had extremely friendly service.”
  10. “The service can be a little slow at times, but overall it's good.”
  11. “The staff was friendly and attentive, and even though you could tell our server was very busy, she made time to stop and chat/give us a couple suggestions.”
  12. “Our server was pretty attentive.”
  13. “Many better pizza options in the city with friendly servers and atmosphere.”
  14. “They have good service, they servers are VERY ATTENTIVE.”
  15. “Unlike the other reviewers, I've never had bad or slow service at Piece.”
  16. “Somewhat bad service though”
value
100.0% positive
  1. “Huge portions, fresh ingredients, and awesome beer.”
  2. “The price is not bad considering the location and the crowd is very diverse, making my experience a true joy!”
  3. “Good beer but prices are pretty steep.”
wait time
71.4300012588501% positive
  1. “Unlike the other reviewers, I've never had bad or slow service at Piece.”
  2. “After being seated about 15 minutes later, the waiter was very pleasant, and we eventually got our pizza.”
  3. “Regardless, so long as there's good food, beer, and entertainment I couldn't care about a few slightly disgruntled workers.”
  4. “The service can be a little slow at times, but overall it's good.”
  5. “This is a great place for a casual night out with friends, as long as loud music is ok.”
  6. “Ignore the Real World associations and the horribly slow service and go for the food and the great beer.”
  7. “servers/hosts. I am a bartender of 10 years now, and am amazed at how I can sit there on a slow Thursday night (July 5th - VERY slow) with 2 bartenders and constantly have to ask for drinks.”
5 Star Rating: Highly Recommended

06/28/11

Wonderful beer

by Mia Robby

Wonderful beer selection for every taste. Event the pickiest customer here will find what he/she likes. They update their beer menu every couple of weeks.

Pizza is delicious. You can choose different toppings yourself. My favorite are: red pizza with Italian sausage, mushrooms and giardiniera. Yummy!

4 Star Rating: Recommended

12/13/10

Windy City Pizza Club at Piece

by WindyCityPizzaClub

I went to Piece on a Sunday night for a 7pm reservation with the Windy City Pizza Club. Originally, we had a group of 22 booked to come; however because of the weather conditions, we had 12. I spoke with a manager a few weeks prior to the reservation and I said that we would like to be at a connected table to make it easier to talk, but the day of they moved us to “The Pit”.

“The Pit” is down some stairs at Piece, where there are a bunch of small circle tables and booth style couches. It wasn’t exactly what we needed but we made it work by taking several of the small tables and putting them right up against each other to make a long table, still not convenient, but fun nonetheless. I had fun where we sat as there was a big screen TV and pinball machine, and of course it was more private, but it could use a massive update with its design and Piece décor.

Our waitress was great. I don’t expect anything more from a University of Denver alumnus, which she was because she did a fantastic job with our requests, food prep, and check. The service was sometimes a little bit slow but I understood with the weather being so poor that they didn’t bring in as many servers. It was also a Sunday night and there were a couple other groups in the Venue.

The Pizza. I won’t yet say that it was my favorite, however it is definitely way up in the Top 5 places I have ever been to. I had the red medium half spinach, half artichoke hearts. It was nice to have an inexpensive pizza that had premium toppings. The waitress told us that we had ordered too much for 12 people, as we ordered about 10 different types of Mediums, but in the end, everything was gone. A medium is the right size for 2 people, however there are 12 slices per medium so depends on how big each of your appetites are.

The Beer. I had a great microbrew IPA called “Cap’n Kickass” (7.5%). It sort of tastes like Gumball Head, but with less fruitiness and I would recommend it to people that like Pale Ales because it has a good kick to the aftertaste. Overall, I would go back to Piece but not in a group. I really want to try their chocolate pizza and more of their beer selection. Windy City Pizza Club very much enjoyed the venue and it’s time at Piece.

3 Star Rating: Average

01/27/10

Ok-

by DonkeyKong44

It was pretty average - I had the individual. The toppings were fresher than Pizza Hut I guess

  • Cons: Overrated
5 Star Rating: Highly Recommended

11/02/09

Fabulous thin crust, great beer

by WindyCityNewbie

After living in Bucktown for only 6 weeks, I've already frequented Piece 4 times! The pizza is addicting and Piece brews its own beer, making it extra delicious. I'd rather go their during the week when the place is less crowded, and the service is better. Also, check out the $25 large pie and growler special for Take Out on Sundays!

  • Pros: White thin crust pizza
  • Cons: Long wait for table on Saturdays
5 Star Rating: Highly Recommended

08/01/09

Amazing Food, Beer and Service Every Time!

by briannalynn

I just LOVE this place! Its amazing every time! Gum ball beer is so yummy! Salad and pizza are even better! Service is great! One time our waitress forgot something on our pizza and gave us %20 off! I recommend this place to anyone in Chicago! Its like no other!

  • Pros: Prices!
  • Cons: there can be a wait some times

The Details on Piece Pizzeria - Brewery

Place Categories:

  • best thincrust pizza
  • great gum ball beer
  • bad service
  • great place
  • like nice thin crust
  • fun atmosphere
  • excellent piece
  • pretty attentive server
  • attentive staff
  • not amazing pizza
  • great food
  • really great pie
  • good awards
  • very pleasant waiter
  • not overwhelming red sauce
  • fresh ingredients
  • very fun crowd
  • obnoxious crowds singing
  • slow very
  • best ceasar
  • bad parking
  • huge portions
  • amazing salad
  • love decor
  • more flavorful dough