hey y'all Ashley Renne what's good welcome back to my youtube channel where
I show you how to live an adventurously green life. Today we're going to find out
if it's even possible to have vegan Chicago deep-dish pizza in all of its
cheesy glory so follow me and we're gonna do a taste test
okay you guys so I am so excited I'm in Chi town right now I have been craving
deep-dish pizza for a long time it's like the one thing that I really missed
when I went vegan so I did a poll on my Instagram stories before I got here, I
asked people for recommendations for Chicago deep-dish pizza
A couple of people were like that's not even possible someone even said
that's illegal to have vegan deep-dish pizza in Chicago but I actually got some
recommendations and several people said Chicago House of Za and several people
said it, I was like all right it's got to be good. So the cheese is actually cashew
based and it's made fresh every single day as well as the seitan and the seitan
is also made fresh every single day by the owners, it's a locally owned
restaurant so they put a lot of heart and passion into the food that they make
So I'm here with my husband, he's a meat eater so I'm gonna let him try it
because I know if he really likes it then that must mean it's really good and
of course I'm personally just very excited because I've been missing this
for a long time so I'm about to put my order in and we are about to dig in
First up we ordered an appetizer we got garlic knots so this is what they look
like and I'm gonna let Karl go first because I want to see what his reaction
is so let's see what he has to say about the garlic knots.
Surprisingly good it's not as garlicky as normal garlic knots but it still has
a good taste to it. Okay that sounded very promising I mean as a meat-eater he
sounded pretty impressed with it. Well let me let me try it cuz I know like the
one thing I do miss from being vegan is like garlicky stuff because a lot of
times stuff like this has like butter in it so let's see you know if this is
still pretty flavorful and garlicky
I have to agree with Karl this is not all that garlicky. This is not as garlicky as I thought
it would be. I really love garlic so I was hoping for a little bit more but it
still has oh wait it definitely has an aftertaste of
garlic, it just kicked in so maybe it's like a pretty good amount of garlic but
I could have used it a little bit more but overall I think it's pretty good.
Wow okay so that you can see the reference of just how big and tall
this crust is, look at my finger that's a pretty thick thick crust of pizza okay
y'all this looks so good. We finished the garlic knots we enjoyed
that now it's time to actually eat the main event which is the Chicago
deep-dish pizza, it took 45 minutes to make and because of the 45 minutes I'm
hoping that means it tastes really really good.
So we ordered the Wes which has seitan meat, it has caramelized onions as
well as mushrooms in it. I really really love mushrooms that's why I got this one
and the caramelized onions sounded really good and the seitan being that
it's made fresh to order I'm hoping that the seitan is really good. Hopefully it
tastes like real meat for my husband because he likes it when his vegan food
tastes like real meat so I'm gonna go ahead and let him try first so we'll see
what he says and if he likes it then you know at least for you meat eaters, you
know that this is good and this is worth coming to to try.
It's good I like it.
Cheese tastes good definitely I can't just meat you know it still tastes like
seitan meat but the cheese and marinara sauce is pretty good. Would I
said it is comparable to a deep dish pizza? Not necessarily but it's still
good, still worth eating. I still wouldn't say no to it if somebody offered this to me.
This thing is huge y'all like oh my god y'all you don't even understand how excited I am right now
Alright here we go
Y'all
Mm-hmm definitely taste how I remember it. I have to say...
when it comes to vegan cheese, cashew cheese pizza is the best. The only other
time I've had really really good really like memorably good vegan cheese was
when I was in Memphis so if you guys missed my Memphis vegan video make sure
you go watch it because you'll see the pizza place that I went into that
made their pizza with cashew nut cheese and oh so good
Same thing here. I am so excited literally I've been waiting for this
moment for a long time and it's finally here. I did not think that Chicago had a
vegan deep-dish pizza but they do and it did not disappoint.