I'm a slaaaaave for you, Monicals Pizza.
I can't deny it.
I'm not trying to hide it, baby.
It's been almost a year and a half since I professed my Yelp love for Monicals. Proud to say that nothing's changed. This isn't for those people out there that want to sit around and talk about how you must eat deep dish when you live in/near Chicago. Oh no no no. This is for a different type of people. This is for the people that have an utmost respect and appreciation for a good thin crust pizza.
I can never get enough of their Family Pleaser. Salad, a 2 liter and a medium pizza. It's the perfect amount of food and oh so good. (You can also find coupons on their Facebook page, in your mail if you're local or on their website.) Us locals will recommend that you get some of the sweet red salad dressing and the creamy italian dressing and mix them. That's how us Kankakeeans roll.
Did I mention I love their thin-crust pizza? It is sooooooooooo gooooooood. They put some kind of Italian spices on top of it to make it unique to only Monicals. I get lots of different toppings but tonight it was pepperoni and green olives. It was delicious as always.
Jeff S said in best back in '07: You are the family pleaser, Monicals.
I think you had to have grown up around one of these to actually like it as an adult. I give it 2 stars because kids do like it. The pizza is terribly juvenile tasting, and the toppings are rarely cooked properly. The crust is comparable to a generic brand frozen pizza. However, staff has always been friendly and there are always tons of coupons so it's OK to take the kids for dinner....just not if you want pizza.
Review Source:This is my absolute favorite pizza! Â I moved out of the area and I have been dreaming of this pizza. Â If only they would open some locations Chicago, they would have a huge following of Peoria, Kankakee, & Champaign transplants.
This pizza is ultra thin, crispy with a spicy sauce. Â Since I grew up in Chicago and only lived in Kankakee area for 10 years, I didn't grow up putting Sweet-N-Tart dressing on the pizza. Â It's not my thing. Â I have 2 favorite pizzas here, either a sausage pizza or their Happy Heart pizza. Â Whenever I would have the Happy Heart pizza delivered, the driver would always comment how good it smelled!
Unremarkable, but okay pizza. Crust was thin and crispy (which I like), but the taste seemed rather bland. Perhaps it was the sauce, of which there wasn't very much, or the blend of cheeses? Definitely a family restaurant, with lots of kids. Friendly and attentive staff, fairly nice decor.
Review Source:I love you, Monical's!
Like Justin said, put the red salad dressing on the pizza. Â It's almost mandatory. Â I just bought another bottle of the stuff to bring back to the city. Â The breadsticks and salad are yummy, too. Â I grew up on Monical's and now have to eat it almost every time I go back home. Â But only with the sweet red salad dressing on the side.
Never had a bad experience with the service or anything. Staff is friendly. Â My issue is with the pizza, just not my style. This place has a predominantly local following i.e. you only really like this food if you grew up on it. I'm a Chicago transplant so I prefer the deep dish or stuffed style of pizza. Monicals is ultra thin which can be OK if flavorful, but the sauce is lackluster and sparing, the cheese is greasy, and the crust too thin to possess any discernible flavor. It basically reminds me of what a Tombstone pizza would be if ate fresh and never fozen. A telltale sign of the pizza's shortcomings: everyone raves how good it is when topped with french dressing... A truly good pizza would not need such an outlandish addition to give it good flavor. The dressing itself is very good , but that's like saying you don't like a places chili, but they have an excellent butternut squash puree that they put on it. Whoop-dee-doo and just as mismatched.
Review Source:My very favorite pizza. Ever.
Premium Cheese Blend, pork sausage and mushrooms.
Breadsticks with Nacho Cheese
The red salad dressing, but put it on the pizza, not the salad.
The salad should receive a moderate dosing of the red and white mixed.
Yesss.
One time, for like a week, I had a recurring dream about getting shot in the neck in the Monicals parking lot, and bleeding out before I was able walk down to the Riverside Emergency Room.
Even with the bad dream, it is still my absolute favorite pizza ever.
I'll go ahead and steal Jeff S's quote:
You are the family pleaser.
Yep.
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