Beerhead Bar & Eatery - Schaumburg, IL

CLOSED June 30, 2024

https://www.facebook.com/BeerheadSchaumburg 

https://patch.com/illinois/across-il/say-goodbye-last-local-beerhead

888 N Meacham Rd

Established 2013

Visited November 2, 2022

Tano's Pizzeria - Chicago, IL

CLOSED August 15(?), 2024

3038 W Irving Park Rd, 16 Irving Park

Established 2012

Visited July 8, 2022

It was featured on Food Paradise

Fong's Pizza - Des Moines, IA

CLOSED November 13, 2021

 

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/entertainment/dining/2021/11/16/fongs-pizza-location-drake-neighborhood-closed-permanently-november-13-forest-avenue/8628866002/

3018 Forest Ave. Now Panka Peruvian Chicken.

Established April 1, 2019

Visited May 26, 2021

Ganello's Pizza Company - Libertyville, IL

CLOSED September 30(?), 2023

1431 Peterson Rd

Established 2015

Visited March 25, 2021

Shorty’s Pizza and Smoked Meats – Superior, WI

CLOSED June 1, 2021 

https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/business/shortys-in-superior-announces-permanent-closure

1015 Tower Ave

Established 2013

Visited July 31, 2019

Featured on Diners, Drive-ins, Dives.  It didn't live up to the hype, not even close.

Pizza Doctors - La Crosse, WI

CLOSED October 31, 2020

https://www.facebook.com/pizzadoctors/

 

624 King St.

Established September 1, 1986

Visited February 26, 2019

Vito's Gourmet Pizza - Fort Lauderdale, FL

CLOSED March 17(?), 2025.  Now Pizza Piez

1489 SE 17th Street, Suite 1-D

Visited December 16, 2018

Vito's remains open until 4 AM. That's right, 4 AM for those needing hangover food.

Gino's East - South Barrington, IL

CLOSED December 31(?), 2020

45 S Barrington Rd

Established January 25, 2015

Visited December 10, 2018

Giordano's - Rosemont, IL

9415 West Higgins Rd

Visited June 22, 2018

Artichoke Pizza - LaGuardia Airport LGA

CLOSED  December 30(?), 2023

Terminal C Food Court 

East Elmhurst, Queens

Visted August 21, 2017

Media Exposure:  Pizza Cuz, 24 on 24. It is the original 14th St location that is featured.

What: Artichoke Pizza

Black Sheep Coal Fired Pizza - Minneapolis St Paul International Airport MSP

CLOSED April 30(?), 2020

Established 2017

Visited April 28, 2017

Chicken and Pickled Peppers. This is not one of the more popular options.  Shredded chicken breast and pickled peppers seemed an unlikely combination as well as toppings for pizza.

The chicken lacks sufficient seasoning with the first few bites but than my salt deadened tongue awoke and appreciated the simplicity of the chicken after a heavy week of salt intense food. The peppers were typical of those offered at Subway. The crust is light, thin, and crispy but non-distinctive.  3 stars.

Mac's Pizza Shack - Janesville, WI

CLOSED December 10, 2025

2307 Milton Ave,

Established 1977

Visited April 15, 2016

Chubby Bubba's - Janesville, WI

CLOSED July 25(?), 2021

https://www.facebook.com/ChubbyBubbas/ 

2517 Milton Ave

Established 2005

Visited December 10, 2015

Chubby Bubba's offers pizza, wings, sandwiches, and BBQ but they're most renown for their pizza.

Good Brothers Pizza - Portland, OR

CLOSED April 30(?), 2020 

14919 SE Stark St #105, Glenfair

Established February 2015

Visited October 27, 2015

Good Brothers offers a limited selections of single slice pizzas. When I arrived, the remaining single slices combined amounted to one whole pie.

Vero - Minneapolis St Paul International Airport MSP

CLOSED June 30(?), 2023

4300 Glumack Drive, Concourse G

Visited March 23, 2015

The MSP airport gutted the old guard Concourse G restaurants and replaced them with trendy expensive local celebrity chef restaurants of the OTG empire. iPads are in your face for self service ordering and further isolate the lonely diner while disincentivizing wait staff to provide good service as the tip is paid at point of order. Being an airport, the wait staff knows customers are one time and gone forever.

Wolfgang Puck - Chicago O'Hare International Airport ORD

CLOSED January 15(?), 2025

Terminal 1, Concourse B, Gate B7

Visited June 16, 2014 plus revisits
Learned February 3, 2025

Do travelers dine here because of the Wolfgang name, because of the food quality, or because it's simply a place to park the butt for some food? Whichever it is, this place was packed with all seats taken and any empty seats immediately glommed.

That Italian Place - Brampton, ON

CLOSED May 30, 2026

https://www.insauga.com/italian-family-restaurant-closing-after-20-years-ahead-of-move-to-new-location-in-brampton/

Established 2005

First Visited April 1, 2014

Media Exposure:  You Gotta Eat Here

What:  Italian food

What a clever name with a built in mnemonic. Even if you forget the name, you'll say it trying to recall it. "I can't remember but it was that Italian place."

Pizza Hut - Madison, WI

CLOSED 2019?

2649 E Springs Dr

Visited December 18, 2013

Buffet Night drew many customers who looked like they would do themselves good to sign up with Jenny Craig rather than spending the evening here. The said customers were in feeding frenzy mode keeping a gal hustling pizzas out as fast as the pizzas could be baked. I felt sorry for her.

Rocky Rococo - Wisconsin Dells, WI

CLOSED May 15, 2019

https://www.facebook.com/AWDells/ 

1012 Stand Rock Rd

Visited June 29, 2013

It's been ages since I had been to a Rocky Rococo. At that time Rocky seemed poised to explode across the country but instead shrunk.  Back then I had dined at a number of Rockys but I couldn't understand its popularity.

Pizanos Pizza - Portland, OR

CLOSED 2015(?). Pizanos Pizza is now By Design Pizza. It appears to be a legal name and an operational change yet still has some connection with Pizanos.

Visited January 9, 2013

10111 NE Cascades Pkwy