My family loves going to Uno Chicago Grill – it’s family friendly with a great Kid’s Menu (let your kids make their own pizza!), well-priced and delicious and we always have a good time. A recent trip to Uno’s to try their new Gluten-Free flatbread pizzas was no exception. My sister-in-law recently went on a Gluten-Free diet and although she has since been able to return to eating foods with gluten, I well remember the struggle to find good food sans that key ingredient, wheat. How would a wheat-free pizza compare to their normal dishes?
We met up with my in-laws for an impromptu get together. As always, the place was busy but we were seated quickly. Of course we had to get our favorite appetizer – their Pizza Skins are out of this world – for anyone who hasn’t had this amazing app, it’s like a cross-breed between pizza and potato skins, this Uno’s Signature dish is a deep dish crust filled with red bliss mashed potatoes, topped with bacon, cheddar and sour cream. It’s fairly big so you could (at least I would) order it as an entrée or share it with the whole table. Honestly, this dish alone has me drooling in anticipation of a future trip to Uno’s.
For dinner we got an assortment of pasta and pizza (choose from deep dish or flatbread) dishes and a few of their awesome salads (I highly recommend the Gorgonzola Walnut Side Salad with mixed lettuces, tomato, red onion, cucumber, honey glazed walnuts, gorgonzola, croutons and low fat blueberry pomegranate vinaigrette). We typically go for the deep dish pizzas, as I am a big fan of a nice, thick crust, but we got the Gluten-Free flatbread to try also. I have to say, for a flatbread pizza, it was delicious. If you didn’t tell me there was no flour in these pizzas, I’d never have known. Of course I preferred my deep dish Chicago Classic (and those delicious Pizza Skins) but seriously, it was just as good as their other Flatbread variety pizzas, so if you are a fan of the thin crust, this would be a super easy transition. My three year old actually liked the Gluten-Free pepperoni pizza better than any of the other foods we got him – he ate it up!
More good news for anyone going Gluten-Free? Uno’s has an entire Gluten-Free menu that you can ask for at your next visit. I definitely recommend their pizzas and I’d venture to say the rest is probably delicious as well. I was very impressed with the pizza and per usual I adored our most recent trip to Uno Chicago Grill. Of course no trip to Uno’s is complete without dessert and I just have to give a shout out to their Mini Sweets – my husband, son and I got the original sized Brownie Bowl to share and it was of course delicious. Their dessert menu is truly out of this world. But – my in-laws each got a dessert from the Mini Sweets menu, which I assumed would be one of the generic shot-glass dessert trifles I’ve seen at all the other restaurants lately – but they were actually just smaller versions of the same good things on the rest of the menu, served on real plates with the same artistic plating flair. So if you can’t agree on a dessert to split, but don’t want a big dessert for yourself, those Mini Sweets looked delicious and according to my in-laws they tasted pretty delicious, too. I will definitely be trying one of them on my next trip to Uno’s – I’ve got my eye on their Mini All American Hot Apple Crumble.
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The restaurant inside NYLO (Warwick Location) is similar to a European electronica club at night and isn’t very kid friendly inside. Luckily, there’s a library in the hotel lobby with comfortable benches and pod swings that children love. The restaurant is happy to sit patrons uncomfortable with the atmosphere in the library or bring the food up to the hotel rooms.
The best part of the restaurant is the décor designed by Stephane Dupoux of Budha Bar NYC fame. Marina inspired stools that look like pilings, acrylic tables filled with shells, blue vinyl floor, light fixtures that look like conch sells, and a bar curved like a wave all attribute to the New England feel. The décor is artsy and classy – posh and comfortable. There’s even a 3,000- square-foot mahogany terrace overhanging the Pawtuxet River. The decor translates well to show out of town guests the maritime history of Rhode Island and the surrounding region.
