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Original Home Run Inn Kitchen back in 1947

Famous Pizza

Tavern-style pizza originates from the Home Run Inn Tavern founded in Chicago back in 1923 by Mary and Vincent Grittani!

In the early 1940s, Mary and her son-in-law, Nick Perrino, had the brilliant idea to place complimentary crispy thin-crust pizza, cut into squares and served on napkins, on the bar as a snack to go with a cold drink. Customers soon started asking for pizza more than drinks! The family’s original recipe from Bari, Italy of hand-pinched crispy crust, zesty sauce and plentiful cheese soon became a hit. Thus, Home Run Inn began selling the pizza, and the famous tavern-style recipe took off.

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