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NYC meets the North Shore
Walking the streets of New York City, you'll find pizza joints every other block offering oversized slices thin-crust pies. (Now, don't get defensive; we put Chicago deep-dish in a completely different league.) You fork over a couple bucks -- as little as $1.50 in out-of-the-way nabes and as much as $3.75 in more touristy spots -- and take away a floppy, foldable slice on a doubled-up paper plate.
Thanks to New York Slices, which opened in Highland Parkearlier this year, the NorthShore has gained a Big Apple-style by-the-slice spot that's more than a step above Sbarro. Specialties include the Grandma (covered with plum tomatoes, roasted garlic and blobs of smoked buffalo mozzarella) and the White Cheese (topped with ricotta and a three-cheese blend). They even have the oddest slice we remember during our time in NYC: Penne Pizza topped with ziti.
Slices start at $2.90. Garlic knots -- tiny balls of dough doused in garlic butter -- cost a quarter, while cool treats such as soft-serve gelato ($3) and Italian ice ($1) in flavors such as mango, coconut and classic lemon are an equally good steal. Bonus: Unlike the no-frills, no-substitutions pizzerias in NYC, you can order your pie in a whole-wheat version here.
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