'Chi-Conic' Lou Malnati's x Portillo's Italian Deep Dish Is Amore

CHICAGO – When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, it just may be the most raved about Windy City food collaboration.

Back just in time for the holidays, the “Chi-conic” Lou Malnati’s x Portillo’s Italian Beef Deep Dish is now available for a limited time to ship to your friends and family nationwide. The pizzas are also available for at-home baking.

The Lou Malnati's x Portillo’s pizza is available with either Portillo’s homemade sweet peppers or its hot giardiniera for a spicy kick, along with Lou’s famed flakey, buttery crust. Vine ripened plum tomatoes and Wisconsin mozzarella, topped with Portillo’s slow-roasted, thin-sliced Italian beef, offer a true taste of Chicago.

Each nine-inch deep dish pizza is made from scratch by Lou Malnati’s, then flash frozen to preserve its hot-out-of-the-oven freshness. Whether picked up at stores or shipped directly to customers’ doorstep, it’s ready to bake and enjoy whenever they want it.

The limited-time pizzas can be picked up in the grab-and-go freezer case for home cooking at all 80 of Lou Malnati’s restaurants throughout the Chicago area, including:

• 6456 S. Cicero Ave., Chicago (Chicago-Midway)
• 14150 S. Bell Road, Homer Glen
• 1528 Rt. 59, Joliet (Joliet-Shorewood)
• 5261 W. 95th St., Oak Lawn
• 12801 S. Harlem Ave., Palos Heights
• 9501 W. 171st St., Tinley Park
• 1720 N Orchard Road, Aurora
• 259 S. Weber Road, Bolingbrook
• 85 S. Buffalo Grove Road, Buffalo Grove
• 502 Northwest Hwy, Cary
• 440 W 75th St., Downers Grove
• 110 West Park Ave., Elmhurst
• 1850 Sherman Ave., Evanston
• 3315 Vollmer Road, Flossmoor
• 1048 Commons Drive, Geneva
• 3120 Glenview Road, Glenview
• 1890 First St., Highland Park
• 1436 South Milwaukee Ave., Libertyville
• 131 W. Jefferson Ave., Naperville
• 2879 W. 95th St., Naperville
• 2510 E Lincoln Highway, New Lenox
• 1326 Shermer Road, Northbrook
• 2848 U.S. 34, Oswego
• 4700 Gilbert Ave., Western Springs
• 3223 Lake Ave., Wilmette

After its wildly successful 2022 debut, the Lou Malnati x Portillo’s Italian Beef Deep Dish Pizza became the largest selling limited edition pizza offered by the pizza franchise.

This gastric wonder is available for online ordering and shipping nationwide via Tastes of Chicago in packs of two, four or six, or in combination with other Portillo’s classic offerings, such as Italian Beef Sandwich or Chicago Dog kits. For customers in greater Chicago, Phoenix, Indianapolis, or Milwaukee, they can find the limited-edition pizza in the freezer case at their local Lou Malnati’s restaurant or carryout location.

For more information on this limited time offering or to place an order, please visit TastesOfChicago.com. To find your nearest Lou Malnati’s, please visit LouMalnatis.com.

“It doesn’t get more Chicago than Italian beef and deep dish pizza. The Lou Malnati’s x Portillo’s Italian Beef Deep Dish Pizza is the stuff of icons – we simply had to bring it back,” Portillo’s President and CEO Michael Osanloo said in a news release. “Whether you like your Italian Beef with hot giardiniera or with sweet peppers, there is something for everyone in the marriage of our brands.”