Chooch's Pizzeria

This is a nice bar for a beer and the people seemed nice, but the pizza and fried mushrooms was awful! We threw away most of the leftovers. We did a takeout, maybe that was the problem. They had a good sauce and maybe their pizza taste better with beer. For my first time, it was awful! I hate leaving this review, so I might try them agin in the future and change my review!

Maybe this place is an ok bar. I feel bad giving it such an awful review because the people who worked there all seemed really nice. I however just picked up pizza from here thinking it would be a new good option for pizza in Elgin. It is not a good option of pizza. Not good at all. Each individual ingredient just tasted wrong. You know that old saying about even bad pizza being good? They have broke the mold on this one folks. Their pizza was horrible. Both my husband and I had physically grossed out reactions to the taste. Sorry Chooch, you just didn't cut it. I say overhaul your entire kitchen and keep your friendly staff.

Oh boy. I had high expectations. I heard the pizza was great and that they had a gluten free option for the DH. Went with a group of friends and were seated right away. We had a server who didn't know up from down and I am sure she was just overwhelmed because they were BUSY. But... we all wanted separate checks and there should be a system for that (number, name, symbol, whatever...) our pizza took forever and yes, it was hot, real ingredients, and the gluten free was decent. The crust was really chewy (I am a Monical's fiend -- cracker for me all the way) so maybe it's a NY style thing?? Our friend waited at least 45 minutes after us for her pizza. I felt so bad for her. The MGR stepped in and apologized, but after almost 1 hour waiting for a check we almost dined and dashed. Probably should have.

I think it's a great place to go for a casual lunch or early dinner when it's not so overwhelming to the staff. The ingredients were fresh, the salad was good and the beer selection had a few IPAs, which, they had no beer list; I had to walk to the bar to look at the bottles. Suggestion: create one in Word and get it printed. You can do two on a page and print them out.

Clean, open and because of the high ceilings, exposed brick and wood/hard floor, it's going to be noisy.  Best of luck!