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Bret Thorn, Senior Food Editor

November 30, 2017

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Uno Pizzeria & Grill launches new menu
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Uno Pizzeria & Grill, a 110-unit chain based in Boston, has relaunched its menu and expanded its beer lineup to include six rotating taps that vary by location. Customers will be notified of beer changes using Uno’s Untapped app or by visiting the web site.

The new menu has a new design highlighting the chain’s Chicago heritage as a deep-dish pioneer, with new deep-dish and thin-crust offerings as well as other new items. The menu is available in the chain’s 63 domestic locations in 22 states and the District of Columbia. Uno’s also now is offering daily pizza and beer specials. 

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spicy hawaiian pizza

The new items are:

Meatballs in Marinara: Six beef-and-sausage meatballs in marinara sauce, $7.99
Chopped Southwest Black Bean Burger salad: Salad greens, jalapeños, banana peppers, cheddar cheese, pico de gallo, black olives and cilantro a chopped black bean patty and avocado ranch dressing, served with tortilla chips, $12.79 (also available with grilled chicken)
Berry & goat Cheese salad: Field greens, strawberries, grapes, blueberries and walnuts tossed with low-fat honey vinaigrette and topped with goat cheese, $12.49, or $15.99 with grilled chicken
The Little Italy: A deep dish pizza with beef-and-sausage meatballs, mushrooms, ricotta, marinara, mozzarella and Romano cheese, $12.29-$25.29 depending on size
The Original Cheese & Tomato: A deep-dish pizza with mozzarella, tomato sauce and Pecorino Romano, $10.99-$23.49
River North Sausage: A deep-dish pizza made with garlic sausage from Chicago, mozzarella, tomato sauce and Pecorino Romano, $13.79-$27.49
Chicago Meat Market: Deep-dish pizza with garlic sausage, Chicago Italian beef, meatballs, pepperoni, mozzarella, tomato sauce and Pecorino Romano, $13.99-$27.99
Brussels & Bacon: Thin-crust pizza with Alfredo sauce, roasted Brussels sprouts, bacon, mozzarella, aged cheddar, Romano and barbecue sauce drizzle, $13.29-$20.29
BBQ Chicken: Thin-crust pizza with barbecue sauce, sliced chicken breast, red onions, mozzarella, aged cheddar and Romano cheese, finished with more barbecue sauce, $13.29-$20.20
Pesto Chicken & Caramelized Onion: Thin-crust pizza with basil pesto, shredded chicken, caramelized onion, Dorati cherry tomatoes, Kalamata olives, mozzarella, aged cheddar, Romano and a drizzle of balsamic glaze, $13.29-$20.20
Spicy Hawaiian: Thin-crust pizza with sweet red chile sauce, pineapple, jalapeños, mozzarella, aged cheddar, Romano and a ranch drizzle, $13.29-$20.20
Bacon Me Happy Burger: A burger topped with a double portion of brown sugar and black pepper crusted bacon, caramelized onion, cheddar and garlic mayonnaise, $13.49
Wabash Works Burger: Half-pound burger topped with Chicago Italian beef, roasted bell peppers, mozzarella, giardiniera, garlic mayonnaise and au jus, $13.49
Wild Wild West Burger: Half-pound burger with smoky sliced ham, cheddar, honey barbecue sauce, garlic mayonnaise and a large onion ring, $13.49

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Pesto chicken pizza

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About the Author

Bret Thorn

Senior Food Editor, Nation's Restaurant News

Senior Food & Beverage Editor

Bret Thorn is senior food & beverage editor for Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality for Informa’s Restaurants and Food Group, with responsibility for spotting and reporting on food and beverage trends across the country for both publications as well as guiding overall F&B coverage. 

He is the host of a podcast, In the Kitchen with Bret Thorn, which features interviews with chefs, food & beverage authorities and other experts in foodservice operations.

From 2005 to 2008 he also wrote the Kitchen Dish column for The New York Sun, covering restaurant openings and chefs’ career moves in New York City.

He joined Nation’s Restaurant News in 1999 after spending about five years in Thailand, where he wrote articles about business, banking and finance as well as restaurant reviews and food columns for Manager magazine and Asia Times newspaper. He joined Restaurant Hospitality’s staff in 2016 while retaining his position at NRN. 

A magna cum laude graduate of Tufts University in Medford, Mass., with a bachelor’s degree in history, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Thorn also studied traditional French cooking at Le Cordon Bleu Ecole de Cuisine in Paris. He spent his junior year of college in China, studying Chinese language, history and culture for a semester each at Nanjing University and Beijing University. While in Beijing, he also worked for ABC News during the protests and ultimate crackdown in and around Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Thorn’s monthly column in Nation’s Restaurant News won the 2006 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for best staff-written editorial or opinion column.

He served as president of the International Foodservice Editorial Council, or IFEC, in 2005.

Thorn wrote the entry on comfort food in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, 2nd edition, published in 2012. He also wrote a history of plated desserts for the Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, published in 2015.

He was inducted into the Disciples d’Escoffier in 2014.

A Colorado native originally from Denver, Thorn lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Bret Thorn’s areas of expertise include food and beverage trends in restaurants, French cuisine, the cuisines of Asia in general and Thailand in particular, restaurant operations and service trends. 

Bret Thorn’s Experience: 

Nation’s Restaurant News, food & beverage editor, 1999-Present
New York Sun, columnist, 2005-2008 
Asia Times, sub editor, 1995-1997
Manager magazine, senior editor and restaurant critic, 1992-1997
ABC News, runner, May-July, 1989

Education:
Tufts University, BA in history, 1990
Peking University, studied Chinese language, spring, 1989
Nanjing University, studied Chinese language and culture, fall, 1988 
Le Cordon Bleu Ecole de Cuisine, Cértificat Elémentaire, 1986

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