Sharpies Pizza & Cocktails [Meeting #140]

Sharpies Pizza & Cocktails

1721 N Elston Ave (Map)
Chicago, IL 60642
(312) 772-2368

CPC invaded Sharpies on Sunday, August 3, 2025.

Let's not bury the lede here. For the first time in more than 20 years, Conor Barnes attended an in-person Chicago Pizza Club meeting. She even changed her flight to make it work. That's dedication. Mikel, the gauntlet has been thrown. Kelly and Ryan Daily, what the hell?

Let's also not bury the second lede. Sharpies is probably making the second best Detroit style pizza in Chicago. And before anyone wants to say Paulie Gee's, that pizza is delicious but it isn't really Detroit style.

Cool vibes about at Sharpies. They even have some classic video games to play. 

We don't often get non-pizza food items at CPC meetings but these double crunch buffalo wings were very good.

There's no build your own option at Sharpie's, which actually makes ordering easy. The obvious first choice was the Sausage Singularity, which comes with fennel sausage, Calabrian chilis and ricotta along with tomato sauce and mozzarella. This pizza was delicious. Crisp, chewy, flavorful crust topped with good ingredients. 

For our second pizza, we let Conor choose and she'd come with instructions from her kids that we had to try the Sweet & Salty Space Candy, which comes with bacon, pineapple, goat cheese, pickled onions and sambal. The crust was a home run again but the bacon overwhelmed everything and the heat from the sambal was non-existent.

We decided to just get two pies, but our youngest member, 12-year-old Cora has simple tastes and conspired with Conor to order a Moon Walk “1969,” which is the cheese pie. It was actually a good idea because we were a hungry bunch. Another knockout crust with cheese and good sauce. Of course, it would have been better with some toppings, but what can you do?

Overall, like I said, I think this is the second best Detroit style pizza I've had in Chicago. And it's the best the CPC has had. What's #1? Stay tuned!