By Clark 
When you’re craving a Chicago tavern-style pie, the last place you might think to go is Pizza Hut, which is famous for its loaded crust and pan pies. But with a new, exciting item on the menu, it may all change.
The Chicago Tavern-Style Pizzas from Pizza Hut have just been unveiled, along with the company’s “biggest toppings menu overhaul in over a decade. Squares, not triangles, are the usual cutting pattern for tavern-style pies, and the crust is extremely thin and crispy. Chicago thin and crispy pizzas are equally as adored, if not more so, than the city’s renowned deep dish pizzas.
It wasn’t long before Pizza Hut followed suit, capitalizing on the tavern style’s meteoric rise in popularity across the US. Even while Domino’s and other competitors do provide crispy thin crusts, Pizza Hut claims to be the first worldwide quick-service pizza restaurant to provide the Chicago tavern style.
“These new offerings are a daring continuation of our culinary objective to provide our consumers with cutting-edge innovation that caters to their pizza-loving desires and needs. Pizza Hut’s chief food innovation officer Rachel Antalek made the assertion that Tavern is more than just a pizza; it’s a culinary movement that symbolizes the excitement of today’s pizza landscape.
Pizza Hut has eight new permanent toppings—Spicy Marinara Sauce, Pesto Sauce Swirl, Chicken Sausage, Fresh Diced Garlic, Grape Tomatoes, Caramelized Onions, Fire Roasted Peppers, and Crispy Cupped Pepperoni—to go along with their new pizza style. The four new iconic tavern-style pies from Pizza Hut, or customers can customize their pizzas using the new toppings:
The Pesto Margherita Tavern Pizza from Pizza Hut features a square-cut Thin ‘N Crispy dough topped with grape tomatoes, cheese, garlic, pesto, and parmesan-oregano spice. It’s a sweet marinara and herb pizza.
Sausages, pepperoni, onions, grape tomatoes, fire-roasted peppers, and parmesan-oregano seasoning on a square-cut Thin ‘N Crispy crust—the Ultimate Tavern Pizza.
A square-cut Thin ‘N Crispy crust topped with spicy marinara, chicken sausage, fire-roasted peppers, caramelized onions, and parmesan-oregano seasoning—that’s the Spicy Chicken Sausage Tavern Pizza.
The Double Pepperoni Tavern Pizza has square-cut Thin ‘N Crispy crust, sweet marinara, traditional pepperoni, crispy cupped pepperoni, and parmesan-oregano seasoning.
“We perfected these recipes to truly pay homage to Chicago and the hundred-year-old style in a modern way while pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in a pizza with fresh new toppings and flavors,” said Antalek.
All four of the new Chicago Tavern-Style Pizza recipes and the build-your-own pizzas with one topping will start at $12.
Pizza Hut has just debuted a new pizza style—the Cheeseburger Melt—shortly after introducing a new take on the classic cheeseburger. Presented on a parmesan-crusted thin crust, it features meat, applewood-smoked bacon, onions, mozzarella, and cheddar scrunched inside. For a short period, patrons at participating establishments can enjoy the Cheeseburger Melt, which comes with a side of burger sauce.