Frasca Pizzeria and Wine Bar

With wood-fired pizza spots opening faster than a Cubs catcher can throw a punch, it seems like thin-crust pizza has replaced deep-dish as Chicago’s pizza of choice. The swankiest of the bunch is Frasca, with arches reminiscent of a Tuscan wine cellar, sexy red leather banquettes and wallpaper of bare branches climbing up the curved walls. The cavernous space is packed to conversation-inhibiting capacity with twentysomethings chomping on chewy thin-crust pizzas (we like the fennel sausage, onion and mozz Capone), wood-fired shrimp and carrot cake tiramisu.