Martino's, Chicago

Martino’s Italian Cuisine & Pizzeria, family-owned for more than three decades, hosts a staff of servers who sate sauce-craving appetites with regionally inspired Italian entrees and five types of pizza. Diners sink chompers into succulent Italian beef, stuffed artichokes, and layers of lasagna as they sip martinis at the restaurant’s fully stocked bar or imbibe gulps of free oxygen on the outdoor patio. A quintet of pizza varieties greets teeth with a textural smorgasbord of high-quality toppings spread atop thin, double-dough, calzone, pan, and stuffed crusts.