Chicago Pizza....in Dubai

Chicago is known for its deep-dish pizza, something that just can't seem to be found in the vast majority of the Middle East. It shouldn't come as a surprise that international, cosmopolitan Dubai is the one place I have been to from Palestine, to Jordan, Bahrain and Oman, combined with my husbands searches in Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, where deep-dish pizza has found a home.

Deira's City Center in Dubai at least teases you with the possibility. It has imported Chicago's deep-dish birthplace, Pizzeria Uno, or at least its sign. Who knows if it imported pizza chefs along with it. More often than not, chains are brought over in logo form, but leaving behind the food we love.

I didn't get a chance to check it out, but for all of you deep-dish pizza loving expats, it's worth a shot next time you're in Dubai.

Here's the sign in Arabic: Uno, Chicago Grill, since 1943.