Dimaggio’s Pizza

If you never eat another slice in your life make sure your last slice is from Dimmagio’s. I’ve never had another pizza that compares to theirs.

Beth W. I’m gonna start by saying you are a freaking idiot and clearly don’t know anything about pizza. Dimaggios has been around for 40 years. The crust is not pre made or frozen. The dough is made fresh everyday then rolled out to order. It is a harder type crust because it’s Sicilian brink oven pizza and it is suppose to be like that! Unlike your terrible chain college pizza you are used to eating every topping on a DiMaggio pizza is fresh with the exception of few toppings. Again they have been around and doing extremely well for 40 years so I’m sure they have the temperature of their ovens down pat. So before you bash something on Unilocal you should get your facts straight. Enjoy your dominos and pizza hut pizza!

I’ve never had DiMaggio’s but heard it was good. I guess maybe I’m spoiled from living in a college town, because I thought it was pretty gross.
The crust was like cardboard – zero bubbles like you get with a hand tossed crust. It was kind of like frozen pizza crust and was perfectly round, so I’m betting they buy it pre-​made.
The sauce is bright red and way too sweet. This was several steps away from ever being tomatoes – there was none of the flavor or spices you normally get in pizza sauce.
The mushrooms were straight out of a can. Ew.
The thing that bugged me most and prevented me from eating more than my two original small pieces was the fact that they put chunks of raw bacon on top of the pizza before cooking it. It was still WAY too squishy to eat.
And I don’t think they are cooking the pizzas in a high temp pizza oven. They just didn’t have the right texture or caramelization.
On a good note, there was a ton of cheese. And the sweet tea was good. My brother-​in-​law was hoping for a beer with his pizza but only soda and tea are served here.
We ordered an Italian salad and had to search for the meat and cheese in it. The salads did have sliced radishes, which is nice, and the blue cheese dressing was really good.
I wouldn’t come back here.

This is some of the best pizza in Southern Illinois. I’m very picky about pizza having grown up in Chicago with stellar pizza joints on every corner. The service was great too.

This place is such a gem in such a small town. The food is pretty much authentic with little to no cut corners. There is not only pizza but also the menu includes pasta and subs. The «old bread sticks» are unique. The pizza sauce is sweet which is great. The crust is home made and characteristically thin topped with a great pizza sauce and freshly graded cheese.

One of the best pizza spots in Illinois. Living in Chicago where great pizza is on every corner, I always find myself craving Dimaggios.

Some of the best pizza around. If traveling through Illinois, it is worth the detour.

I live in Carmi 13 years and this place is what I miss most. This is my all time favorite pizza place.

We happened to be in the area for lunch the other day, Unilocaled and this placed popped up as highly rated. We stepped in and sat down and was promptly greeted by our lovely waitress who took our drink orders and gave us some time to browse the menu. We ordered a pizza with some veggies and pepperoni and sausage and a couple of salads taboot. I will say the service was excellent and the pizza was… ok. Two things we were not a fan of was the sauce as it was too sweet for our liking. The other part that I was not fan of was the peppers and onions– they were diced extremely small and as pale green (the peppers) as could be as if they were frozen, not the most appetizing looking pizza. Overall though it was a good experience and we’d probably go back

Both sets of my grandparents live in Carmi, IL. I eat here every time we come home and it is awesome. I have had the good fortune of eating in many amazing restaurants and sure this is not a world famous chef’s studio but, it is great pizza. Not greasy and amazing taste, you will love it.

I can’t believe I am giving this middle of nowhere pizza place four stars, but I have to admit, I do crave it… and often. Whenever I head back to the boy’s hometown, no trip feels complete without cramming a bit too much of this over cheesed pizza into my body, and yes, sometimes getting a stomach ache later.
So, there are a total of what, like 8 restaurants in Carmi, Illinois, and that includes the McDonald’s and required Illinois Dairy Queen, and this is one of them. Sure, Carmi does not have critically acclaimed restaurants, but this one, yes, is pretty darn delicious. They have a great sauce and they don’t pile it on. It isn’t bitter and it isn’t sweet, it’s perfect. Also, the cheese. I mean they pile it on. For a formaggio addict like myself, this makes the pizza great. Also, though cheesy as all get out, this pizza remains ungreasy. Double score for DiMaggio’s. Finally, they have two kinds of bread sticks and both are freaking great. Again the cheese makes one style, but seriously try both out. You will not be disappointed.
So, would I make the 2.5 hour drive from St. Louis just to get this pizza, well no, we have plenty of good pizza where I am from. However, if I found myself on this side of Illinois and craving a slice, I’d certainly give it the 20 minutes off 64 to get a slice.