Jake and Elwood's masters the Chicago pie A whole deep-dish pizza from Jake and Elwood's makes an imposing serving. Jake and Elwood’s opened its Chicago-style pizzeria in Clifton at 11 a.m. Monday, March 16. Does that date sound familiar? Yep! That’s the day that Gov. Andy Beshear told all the state’s restaurants to put a halt to dining-in at 5 p.m.
“We are mandated to close for dine-in at 5 p.m. today,” the restaurant posted on its Facebook page less than two hours later. “CARRYOUT is available!!! We're working on delivery. The blues will prevail!”
Indeed. As we know from the restaurant's
Blues Brothers namesakes Jake and Elwood, Chicago people do what needs to be done.
When the doors closed to sit-down dining, the owner John Thurlow, a Chicago native, promptly shifted the plan, offering pizza-to-go to waiting throngs. Within the first two days they had run out of pizza boxes and containers and had to close for a day to restock. They closed again for a couple of days at the end of March to refine the operation, but came right back up. They’ve been earning uniformly positive reviews from just about everyone I know who's tried it,
on the HotBytes forum and across social media.
Located in the landmark yellow-brick Frankfort Avenue building that long housed Clifton's Pizza, and which more recently was home, briefly, to Steve-O’s Italian Kitchen, Jake and Elwood's bills itself as “a Chicago tribute restaurant” specializing in Chicago deep-dish pizzas, Chicago hot dogs, sausages and Italian beef sandwiches.
That pretty much describes the menu, which offers a good range of choices among those categories. ...
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Jake and Elwood's2230 Frankfort Ave.
690-2167
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