If you're looking for real Chicago-style pizza, then Salerno's Pizzeria & Bar is your place. You won't find flatbread or brick-oven pizza here, and that's the way the famly wants it. "A lot of pizza is trendy. We're not a brick-oven place," said co-owner Denise Nabat. Adds co-owner and son of the founders, Mikey Salerno: "Everything is homemade. Nothing comes in a jar except the black olives."

Salerno's offers Italian dishes like arancini, bruschetta, stuffed artichokes, chicken and eggplant parmigiana sandwiches, 12 kinds of salad from chicken caprese to antipasto and pasta with Sunday gravy "every day." "Everything is Mom's recipes. I learned them on Grand Avenue at 14," Salerno said, referring to the family's first restaurant in Berwyn.