Review of Spacca Napoli Pizzeria

The one with the wood chips and the “gluten free” pizza. After researching the best gluten free pizzas in Chicago, we landed on Spacca Napoli. It was a special occasion because my brother was traveling in from out of state. He has celiac disease and loves pizza so we were so excited to have found a place! We ordered it to go because it was nearly 10PM. We were so excited when we started eating. The pizza was better than any gluten free pizza we had ever had. I couldn’t stop commenting! It was AMAZING! I was unpleasantly surprised to find not one, but two wood chip. When we reached out to the owner, his explanation was that the pizza is cooked in a wood fired oven, so that happens. The gluten free pizza was so freaking good we HAD to go back in spite of the memory of the food chips and the extremely sloppy presentation (for example, I had a mushroom pizza and it looked like they had shaken it violently in the box before giving it to us.)

This second visit, we dined in. We ordered two different gluten free pizzas and when they arrived we immediately looked at each other and said “we did not receive gluten free pizzas last time.” It was obvious simply looking at the pizza that it was a different product, tasting it confirmed that it was gluten free and the AMAZING GLUTEN FREE PIZZA we had enjoyed was, in fact, their normal crusts. No wonder it tastes so good. It suddenly made sense. My brother is a type one diabetic and has celiac disease. The entire weekend that he was here his blood sugars were out of control. They were higher than I’ve seen them in years. We could not figure it out. Now, I understand. Have an eaten a pizza that was NOT gluten free impacted his blood sugar. It explained why his stomach was bothering him and why he had to spend long periods of time in the bathroom.

Celiac friendly?

No