The Lewisville Rosati’s offers up pastas, wings, salads, and sandwiches (including a decent Italian beef) as well as pizza in three varieties: thin crust, double dough, and deep dish. In the continuing effort to hunt down and try out the real traditional Chicago pizza, the tavern style, we, of course, went with the thin crust on a couple of visits.
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Rosati's, two versions run by two different branches of the family, serving Chicago-style pizza for over 50 years
Hank Vaughn
On separate occasions, we ordered a thin crust cheese and a thin crust sausage and onion, which is our normal go-to when trying to compare pizzas across locations. The pizzas took about 15 minutes to prepare and arrived at our table piping hot, with flavorful gooey cheese and perfect seasoning.
Both were cut in squares that could have been smaller, but they were still manageable. The cheese pizza didn’t skimp on the cheese, thankfully, and the sausage and onion had a decent amount of sausage. One can always hope for more, but the larger squares did have sausage on each slice. The onions were not red, unfortunately, which we greatly prefer, but to each his own. These were fully cooked at least and not raw like one sometimes find at pizzerias that hurry the cooking process.
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Thin crust sausage and onion and a plain cheese version both provided a pretty good Chicago tavern-style pizza experience.
Cindy Ju Vaughn & Hank Vaughn
Still, there are several locations, if you include the other family branch, in Flower Mound, Fort Worth, and McKinney. So, depending on where you live this might be one of the better options for Chicago thin-crust pizza lovers.
Perhaps the only ding against the Lewisville Rosati’s is the service, which both times we went was slow and a bit inattentive. It’s a sit-down location with tables and booths, but on our visits no one was attending the counter. There's a bell to ring, so this must be a common thing. They’re slow to prepare, slow to fill water glasses and slow to bring the bill, but if one is willing to put up with a more leisurely dining experience, pay them a visit.
500 E. Round Grove Road, No. 303, Lewisville, 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. Monday - Thursday; 10 a.m. - 11 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. Sunday