Self-proclaimed pizza connoisseurs take notice: Altamura Pizza isn’t your conventional pizza place, but the pie is as authentic as it gets. Everything is either homemade or imported and you’ll be left craving more pizza, prosciutto, and maybe a flight to Italy.

The Hinsdale spot is an Italian, take-home-and-bake pizza and specialty shop whose concept predates the pandemic, even if the impression is that of a highly successful pivot in times of COVID-19.