Dallas and I took Stephanie to RedFLAME for pizza when she was visiting us in Chicago. Our friend Marty is the owner of the place and it was about time I finally checked it out! I’d had the pizza there before they opened, in a test run, and I had it one time when another friend brought it to our house, but I never had the pizza in the official restaurant.
Dallas was mostly there just to have a few drinks with other friends who were there too. Stephanie and I ordered and split the Buffalo Chicken Pizza (grilled chicken, buffalo sauce, caramelized onion and crumbled bleu cheese, drizzled with ranch). It was pretty good. I mean, I kind of feel like we should have gotten a basic pizza if we really wanted to compare the redFLAME pizza to other places we’ve been but we didn’t and the buffalo chicken was very good.
redFLAME has a unique way that they cook their pizzas. First they grill the dough – you can see the grill marks on the bottom. Then they pizza is placed under a flame to cook the toppings.
For dessert we got the S’mores Pizza (Flame-cooked dough topped with chocolate spread, graham cracker crumbs, chocolate chips and marshmallows). Steph LOVED this! I thought it was pretty good too. I’d had a version of it one other time, before redFLAME officially opened. I like the improvements they made. Smaller marshmallows, smaller pizza over all. Smaller is actually better, since this is a rich slice!
