Giordano's

Giordano's is a pizza place in Sycamore, Illinois, serving the Sycamore and DeKalb area from its location on DeKalb Avenue. The restaurant is known for its deep dish stuffed pizza, and its menu also includes salads, starters, sandwich trays, Italian specialties, pastas and unique sandwiches. Giordano's caters business lunches and social events, with delivery or pick-up available, and offers warming kits so food stays hot and ready to serve. Most locations have private or semi-private dining rooms for hosting events. The restaurant holds a rating of 4.50.

The recipe behind Giordano's stuffed pizza evolved over 200 years, beginning in a small northern Italian town near Torino, where Mama Giordano was known locally for her cooking. Her Italian Easter Pie, a double-crusted, cheese-stuffed dish served on special occasions, became a family tradition. Italian immigrants Efren and Joseph Boglio later moved to Chicago and introduced their mother's recipe for stuffed pizza, opening the first Giordano's on Chicago's south side in 1974. Over the following 40 years, the restaurant drew millions of fans and hundreds of critics who called it the city's best stuffed pizza. Giordano's has been recognized as Chicago's Best Pizza by outlets including NBC, CBS Chicago, the New York Times, Chicago Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Eater, Home & Garden Magazine and Concierge Preferred.

The restaurant sits on DeKalb Avenue, about a third of a mile from Bethany Road and roughly the same distance from the Illinois Department of Agriculture. Northwestern Medicine Ben Gordon Center is about 0.4 miles away, and bus stops are within a short walk along the same stretch.

Giordano's carries a positive rating from the customers who have reviewed it, reflecting a reputation built on its stuffed pizza and its catering for group events and parties.

For deep dish stuffed pizza and catered gatherings in Sycamore, Giordano's brings a Chicago pizza tradition to DeKalb County.