Chicago Pizza in Cypress, TX!
After years of searching Houston for good quality Chicago-style Deep Dish Pizza, I’ve finally found it. Right under my nose along my daily commute, a restaurant popped up 2 weeks ago called Baby Leita’s. I found it in one of the local coupon circulars that come weekly in the mail and noticed it claimed that not every deep dish is Chicago-style. In complete agreement with this statement, I decided to give them a try and see what they were all about. It is family owned and operated by a couple who just moved back here from a long stint in the Windy City. They decided to give to Houston’s west side what can only be found in a select few restaurants here, but is widely available in Chicago.
Most of my experience with this style pizza has been from my trips to Chicago with my wife and family, but I consider myself a fairly knowledgeable pizza consumer. Baby Leita’s only offers the sauce on top version, which is unlike the pizzas I usually grab while up north, but it turned to be very well made. After some research on Wikipedia (behind the scenes), I discovered that there are two schools of thought with Chicago-style Deep Dish. Those with sauce on top and those with sauce inside the pizza. My wife, having been born and raised in Chicago’s north side, is very firm in her belief that deep dish pizza has the sauce inside and not on top, and that sauce on top indicates a stuffed pizza. A stuffed pizza would have the same beginnings as its deep dish brethren, but instead of having the sauce with the toppings, that add another thin layer of crust and put the sauce on top. Despite this, some larger known restaurants in Chicago feature the sauce on top of both and this little joint in Cypress has done it and exceeded expectations. If anyone in the Upper Katy Area, Cypress, or West Houston, TX is looking for good quality Chicago-style Deep Dish, I recommend Baby Leita’s. It is on Barker-Cypress near Highway 290, just in front of the Stonegate neighborhood. Map It!
