Old Chicago

Good place to get your fix of deep dish pizza. Not exactly Chicago style, but it gets the job done if fro Chicago and craving decent Chicago style pizza. Lots of TVs to watch games and large beer selection. It is disappointing for a place called old Chicago to not carry Chicago beers like 312. So don’t expect any goose island.

Wow
I used to go to old Chicago all the time in the Midwest and it was great. I even completed the world beer Tour in 2004. So to start we had a 10 –15 minute wait not bad but I went to the bathroom and counted 10 open tables. Ordered beer and food and beer took 10 minutes. I had to ask my server for my beer. I could see the kitchen from where I was sitting and saw my sandwich sit under the heat lamp for 10 minutes. Only other food at the table was my two kids kids meals. While we were waiting we had a server ask us if we were waiting on an appetizer. 3 tables later they delivered it to the right table. We’re done eating and I’m still waiting on my tab

Anyone who knows me knows how much I love boneless chicken wings, and Old Chicago d e l i v e r e d. We went for happy hour and I wasn’t the one paying (^_​~) so I can’t really say how the prices turned out in the end, but from the menu they have a pretty awesome deal. We had the pretzel bites w/​the beer cheese sauce and the wings. I had a glass of house wine. It was simple, fast, and tasty.

We’ve only been here twice and each time was worse than the last.
Why so bad? The food was poor the first time and the second time we got it to go was even worse. The caeser salad tasted like the one you could buy at Wendy’s down the street. The panini was flat and smashed. They forgot our utensils and side ranch for our wings. It took like 30 minutes when they said it would only take 15.
30 dollars for a meal that should have been half that for what we got. Probably will not be back again.

Stopped here with the wife after going shopping. I got a create your own calzone and she got the create your own Mac & Cheese.
Service was slow. She got a drink from the bar, drink was good and delivered very quickly.
Food was nothing great, calzone wasn’t cooked all the way. Really didn’t have much flavor.
Wife said her Mac & cheese was alright but she wouldn’t get it again.
Took the waiter 25 mins to bring us our check after clearing our plates, we were 1 of 3 tables in the whole restaurant…
Won’t be going back.
Good place to grab a beer and get cheap food, if your into that kind of thing.

Semi-​decent. However, the food lacks flavor and everything kinda tastes like any other basic chain pizza parlor with medicore reviews.

This is by far the worst service I’ve ever experienced. The place wasn’t even packed and it took 15 minutes to get a waitress to take our drink and food order. Then we waited another 30 minutes to get our order of a salad and French fries as well as no refills on our drinks. Never coming back.

This was my boyfriend and I first time here.
Let me start off by saying if you get lucky enough to have Jack as your waiter, you are in for great and fast service. He is very professional and was with a great smile on his face the whole time. He takes hospitality and waiter service to a whole new level. Thanks jack for that best service ever!
And the food, let me tell you-​it was delicious!
It came out within minutes! We ordered the Italian nachos (which were HUGE!) & buffalo wings as appetizers. My boyfriend ordered the spicey steak sandwich thing (I forgot what it’s called lol) and I ordered the meat lovers calzone. I only ate like ¹⁄₅^th of it cause I was stuffed from the appetizers.
I also had the strawberry lemonade which was delicious.
It was a great, chill atmosphere. My boyfriend says we’ll definitely be back at this location for sure

Well first off we walked in and there was a girl holding the door and at the desk two people
Talking. They were leaning on a counter with their backs to us. We stood there and finally the guy turned around and stared at us… I said can we get a table? He said «uh, yeah. How many of ya» I said three. He looked back at the other girl he was talking with and the girl at the door said I’ll help you. He seemed like we were bothering him. We should have walked out then.
We got seated and someone came to take our drink orders. Got two ice teas right away and the last drink took another 7 – 10 minutes. When it arrived we placed our order. After we ordered my daughter said what is this black thing in my drink? It clearly looked like a bug we got someone over to our table and told
Them. A minute later the manager came and told us it was mint. Mint is green and doesn’t have wings. I don’t believe it was mint. They replaced the drink 5 minutes later and although the waitress told my daughter it was sweet it was really tart like drinking the candy smarties. We asked for sprite instead. Again, five minutes or more to get the drink. The pizza took at least 30 – 40 minutes to arrive. It was okay. Nothing special. Wayyyyy too much sauce but I dared not complain because we were hungry. Honestly Pizza Hut is cheaper and better and I’m not a fan of fast food so that says a lot.

Decided to buy my employees pizza for lunch and we decided on old Chicago. Girl in the front was really nice and bubbly. We ordered some BBQ chicken pizza and it was the best pizza I have ever had hands down. You have to try it if you go in here. I only wish I would have taken a picture so I could show you but we ate them to fast

Food and drinks were good. The Calzone were a little too much dough and not as much meat as i would have liked. Service was good and friendly.

I was here 2 weeks ago — forgot to write my review.
The service here is pretty good for a pub-​like place. It gets pretty busy on game nights AND weekends.
The food is good. The pizza is good. Standard for pub food.
The beer selection (while they offer a lot of beers!!!) is just OK for me. I am not a huge fan of IPA’s and hoppy beers. THEY HAVE A LOT OF BOTH!!! I wish they would offer more German & Belgium beers on tap.

Well what can I say, saw on their wall list of beers, and one caught my attention, that was the Ride your Bike beer, interesting name! So went and ordered it, it has a very smooth taste to it, and a appealing smell as well– even my wife liked it, and she doesnt like beer! Hmmmm… lol
Like another person has said, they have a world beer program here, after you drink certain set of beers you get a tshirt– and they have a awesome selection of beer!
Anyway, for food, I went with the Meat calzone, plus pineapple on it, and that was real yummy! Loved it, and got a pizza to go, same thing but in their deep dish, with the pineapple and red onions added.
forget what wife had, but its in the pics I took, might have been the chicken strambolli.
Overall, the service was very prompt and courteous, and I would most certainly recommend this place!

This is our letter to Old Chicago’s corporate office:
My husband and I went to Old Chicago in Milwaukie Oregon last night, and it was the worst experience of our lives. My husband’s father passed last Tuesday, and we live about 100 miles from my husband’s family. We have been driving between our home and his family home all week to make all the necessary arrangements. We did not finish until after 9:30 PM, and we were really hungry because we had not had a chance to eat all day. My husband and I arrived at Old Chicago, and we were seated very quickly, which was good. Our waitress came over to our table right away, and because we had been to Old Chicago so many times, we knew exactly what we wanted for beverages and food. She brought our beverages very quickly, but the host person (the one who initially seated us) was talking to a couple sitting at the table directly behind our table. My husband and I thought he would just be there for a few minutes, but he stood there laughing loudly, talking loudly, and carrying on in the most unprofessional manner. The host stood there talking like that while we ordered our drinks and food, while we waited for our food to arrive (20 – 25 minutes), and for the first few bites of our food. We heard about some trip that he took out of country, found out that he had just been engaged, learned that the other patron that he was speaking to was a photographer, and we heard all about how the host proposed to his fiancé. After listening to all of their conversations for our entire visit, we just wanted him to go away. He was so loud and boisterous that my husband and I could not carry on a conversation. I got up from the table and tried to find our waitress or a manager, and could not. I wanted to move from the table we were sitting at, to another one as far away from the loud host as possible. I grabbed our plates of food, and moved to another table on my own. Our waitress came over, after we had moved, and asked us if we were more
comfortable at our new table. She was a complete angel, and we told her why we moved, and my husband asked to speak to a manager. When the manager came to our table, and we explained the situation with the host, the manager actually had the nerve to tell us that the host was talking to guests that were «regulars». The manager was so rude to us that I literally got up from the table and told him that he could keep his calzone, because it was not worth the trouble, and I walked out of the establishment.
How dare the manager and host treat guests like that! How dare they imply that a guest that is a regular should take precedent over any other guest. We actually go to that Old Chicago every time we visit my husband’s family, and we have had lunch and dinner there hundreds of times over the last 25 years. I have never EVER walked out of a restaurant like that, and I have also never been treated so rudely in my life. I don’t know what his issue was, but we will NEVER eat at Old Chicago again. My husband just lost his father, and we just wanted to sit down and eat a peaceful dinner. Unfortunately, your staff was so out of control and rude that we did not eat our dinner. We drove all the way home hungry and angry beyond words.
Do not attempt to tell us that you will give us free food or any comps of any kind. We simply do not want them, as we would never eat in a place that treats their guests so rudely.
That host should be fired, as my husband stated to the manager last night, and the manager… I would really like to slap him right in his stupid little face. He is an idiot beyond compare. How he came to be a manager is really beyond me, and if he worked in our company he would have been fired immediately. He has the lifetime value of a customer confused if he thinks regular customers are more valued than any other customer. We would have paid the same amount of money, if not more, than that regular customer. He also allowed that couple to lay all over each other, and carry on as if the couple owned the place. Managers and hosts are there to do a job, and they were more interested in socializing with this couple than doing their jobs, and other customers suffered for it. In the end, your company has lost any future revenue from us, our friends and our family. I am posting this letter on facebook, and it will be going on Unilocal as well. We hope that other couples who have suffered the same treatment do the very same, as your company does not deserve to be in business if you allow managers and hosts to carry on in such an unprofessional manner.

I’m not lucky enough to have Old Chicago in my hometown so when on vacation we saw one we had to stop in to try it out. What a great pizza! Everything from our appetizer to the pizza was great, along with the service and atmosphere. A+!

Service: I waited for 10 min to get a server to my table. I ordered a water cup with a few extra cups of water since they don’t serve pitchers of waters, but I am guessing from the server attitude, that I asked for too much
And I never gotten any of the waters refilled.
The order was put in wrong by the server, and the apologies that I got from both the manager and the waiter were the most fake apologizes I yet to hear.
Food: cheesy garlic bread was almost as the ones you get out of a box in the refrigerator isle at the super market, the only difference is, you don’t have to cook it.
The pizza came and it was not as I specified, so honestly I didn’t taste it to review it.
Price: n/​a
Over all I will not return not recommend this place.

I never really post bad reviews but when its needed its needed. This place we have tried on occasion both her and on the west side.
I can honestly say its not worth the trip in.
My family and I had dinner here last night and I am really disappointed again!
we chose Old Chicago so we could have a large selection of foods for 6 different people with different palates. As my wife and I entered there is about 5 employees servers I think just standing in the front waiting area and she says jovially hey we are finally here thanks for waiting for us!!! hahahaha. Not one of them even smiled they basically didn’t even want to see another customer it seemed.
We then awkwardly stood there while they stared us down (8 PM on a Friday night) and looked at our party of 6 as if it were 10 minuets to closing time. finally the host greats us and asks how many in our party we said 5 and he had a real hard time trying to figure out were to seat us in an almost empty dining room.
We finally get a table and the waitress again is kind of harried as if she just caught a 12 top at closing and just can’t believe her luck Shit!
Not impressed at all from the get go… she finally warms up and realizes that we are not gonna be that kind of finicky table we just want to eat and get going. she realizes this as a table that just wants to get some food and head back to the west side of town so she is then very relieved and starts to at least talk a bit.
Over all never have been impressed probably never will be…
Sandwiches for the girls and pasta for my wife a single serve pizza for my sons and a burger for me.
for this pleasure I drop 107.00 including tip that was not earned.
NOPE NOPE NOPE would rather do a burger at the King or even drastically saying eating at the all you can eat trough at Old town Buffet next time
dont waiste your time there is better selection out there kids.

I only go here once every few years, but I’ve never been disappointed. We had a large pizza for 20 bucks. It was good, but a little soft and greasy. I prefer a firmer, drier crust, but I know I’m in the minority when it comes to pizza preferences. Service was really good. They checked back frequently and refilled drinks, and brought the check quickly too. They have tons of TV’s, but we weren’t watching. The place was very clean and well maintained.

Sorry to say it’ll take a lot to earn back my business. After years of frequenting this establishment on a very regular basis, we had nothing but good or GREAT experiences until about the last 10 months. This all culminated on our most recent visit this evening.
We were there for nearly three hours — and not because we were dawdling at the end of a meal. Firstly, it took over 20 minutes for our appetizers to arrive. Once we ordered entrees, over another 30 mins. One of our party ordered a vegetarian stromboli, which our waitress volunteered would be filled with extra veggies, only to be delivered a very meaty stromboli and have to wait another 30 («expedited») minutes for a replacement (at which point everyone else had finished their meals).
When the check came, I couldn’t believe that there was not even a discount for the error and absurd wait for the meal that was ordered (totaling over an hour after the order). When that was pointed out to the waitress, 20 minutes elapsed without an adjusted check. Meanwhile, our waitress went straight to bussing and waiting on other tables — again, no regard for our wait. I finally asked for a manager, who removed the charge for the stromboli and apologized. Another 10 minutes and we were finally finished getting rung up.
We have had the same waitress before. She has been more interested in flirting with customers than waiting on her tables. They seem to be losing good servers and bartenders, with really poor replacements.
This has been one of our favorite haunts. I have been so increasingly disappointed lately that I really don’t know if I’ll go back after tonight — and that says a lot for a place where we have been regulars.

Bar none, the best pizza I’ve ever tasted (had The Classic, and the Veggie-​7), both 14-​inchers. And though I’m no connoisseur, the beer selection was also excellent.
Service staff was exceptionally helpful and attentive, and earned an extra tip.