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Hours

Mon.-Thu. 11AM-11PM
Fri. 11AM-Midnight
Sat. Noon-Midnight
Sun. Noon-11:30PM

Cross Street

Tripp

Parking

Free Lot

Pricing

Medium ($$)

City's Best

Home Run Inn   

4254 W 31st St
Chicago, IL 60623
773-247-9696
www.homeruninn.com

Rating: 4 out of 5  (148 Ratings)   Read Reviews (148)    Rate and Write a Review

This South Side pizza establishment is the original location for a company that now has six Chicagoland outlets and a thriving frozen pizza business. Since 1942, the company has stayed true to its original family recipe for a medium crust pizza that is now a Chicago staple. This location started as a small shop but now is a booming two-floor restaurant usually bustling with business. The "power-hitting pizzas" include the garlic fireball, cheeseburger, barbecue, chicken fajita, tabasco chicken or grilled veggie pizzas. If you want garlic but not the full-on fireball effect, you can have one of the other options (or build your own) on a garlic butter crust for $1 extra. The pasta dishes are served with fresh bread, soup or salad. On weekdays there's a lunch buffet of pizza, cold pasta and vegetable salads. Don't think you have to end your meal after the last slice of 'za has been wolfed down; there's also a dessert pizza for those who want to indulge.

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Review rating 3 out of 5
By dhect23 on 10/02/2008
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Review rating 5 out of 5
Longtime fan
By EricF82276 on 07/25/2008
My office was located close to Home-Run Inn on 31st Street and I often picked up our favorite: 'The Sausage Pizza' to take home to the suburb where we lived. I remember the early stages of this restaurant where you placed your order at the bar and enjoyed a beer while waiting. This pizza is so very close to what I remember from the early fifties when pizza was still a new item to Chicago. I have since moved to south western Wisconsin and still enjoy the frozen version.
CHK8093
Review rating 2 out of 5
Over Rated
By CHK8093 on 07/25/2008
Greasy, Overpriced, Overhyped. The only thing worse than the pizza dining in at the HRI is the frozen HRI pizza you can get at the store. Great Pizza, best is town is the Pizza Pot Pie at the Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder on Clark Street.
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Review rating 2 out of 5
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By YesIAm7267 on 07/25/2008
What the heck? THIS won #1 pizza in Chicago? You're joking! Lou Malnati's is, BY FAR, a better pizza and more representative of the deep dish experience I brag to my out of town friends about. I don't know who contributed to this, but Lou Malnati's or Gino's East should've been the top two. Home Run Inn and Aurelio's shouldn't even have made the list. Some people just don't understand good pizza. I think uncover New Yorkers contributed to these votes