{"id":186,"date":"2007-09-29T03:16:43","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T02:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2018-07-22T18:13:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T00:13:30","slug":"sandia-crust-pizza-company-cedar-crest-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Sandia Crust Pizza Company &#8211; Cedar Crest, New Mexico (CLOSED)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<figure style=\"width: 455px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 455px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 455\/342;vertical-align: text-top; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; border: 4px solid black;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/nm\/pizza\/Images\/Images\/Sandia02.jpg\" alt=\"Jerry Garcia in a place of honor\" width=\"455\" height=\"342\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Jerry Garcia and other San Francisco icons festoon this wall<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Deadheads and pizza have been inextricably tied since 1993 when (legend has it) an audacious pizza delivery boy absconded with several cassette tapes from Jerry Garcia&#8217;s kitchen counter.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t take long before late-night Grateful Dead radio programs around the country were playing second- and third-generation &#8220;dubs&#8221; of the rough mixes that have come to be known as &#8220;The Pizza Tapes.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">The Pizza tapes featured the collaboration of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, mandolinist David Grisman and guitarist Tony Rice, all legendary figures in the music world.\u00a0 The 12-song improvisation gives every indication that the session was warm, intimate and replete with the joyful spontaneity and rapport of friends not used to playing together but having a genuinely good time nonetheless. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">In 2000 the Pizza Tapes were released as an album with all its warts and blemishes (talking between musicians, false starts and mistakes).\u00a0 Alisa Young, who hardly looks old enough to have been born in the 70s (much less the 60s), saw her first Grateful Dead concert in 1978.\u00a0 Today Sandia Crust, the restaurant she and her husband Jamie, launched in December, 2005 celebrates the Grateful Dead and both the unique music and culture (or counterculture depending on your perspective) of San Francisco during the generation of love that was the 60s. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 444px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 444\/211;border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/nm\/pizza\/Images\/Sandia07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"211\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">The Sandia Crust Pizza Company in Cedar Crest, New Mexico<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">The restaurant&#8217;s pumpkin and paprika walls are festooned with several lithographs of Jerry Garcia (1942-1995) along with autographed photos of other Grateful Dead members. Also immortalized are Janice Joplin (1943- 1970) and Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970).\u00a0 Jefferson Airplane aficionados will appreciate the poster announcing a concert at San Francisco&#8217;s Avalon Ballroom featuring Jefferson Airplane and a local folk-rock group called the Great Society.\u00a0 The Airplane is considered the flagship act for the burgeoning psychedelic music scene developed in San Francisco during the mid 1960s.\u00a0 The lead singer for Great Society was Grace Slick who would later become a member of the Airplane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">A psychedelic theme continues with a framed limited edition (278 of 420) two-paneled print depicting 1960s counterculture icon Timothy Leary.\u00a0 An advocate of psychedelic drug research and use, Leary coined and popularized the catch phrase &#8220;Turn on, tune in, drop out.&#8221;\u00a0 A sign over the front door expresses some of the &#8220;establishment&#8217;s&#8221; sentiment of the era: &#8220;Hippies use the side door.&#8221;\u00a0 If you look closely, you&#8217;ll also see a Haight-Ashbury label on the back side of the restaurant&#8217;s open\/closed signage.\u00a0 The 60s American counterculture era is synonymous with the intersection of Haight and Ashbury Streets in San Francisco, a district that served as the center of the 1960s hippie movement. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 455px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 455px; 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font-family: Verdana;\">Also resonating strongly is the menu at the diminutive pizzeria.\u00a0 At first glance there&#8217;s not much to distinguish it from any menu at any shopping center pizza parlor: pizza, calzones, Ciabatta sandwiches, pasta, soups, salads and desserts.\u00a0 Study it a bit further and you might just surmise that the unique pizza combinations were inspired by the tie-dyed tee-shirts popular in the 60s.\u00a0 These are not your mama&#8217;s pizzas.\u00a0 Sure some of the standards are there, but you can have a Margherita anywhere (albeit probably not as good as at Sandia Crust).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Try instead the <em>Black n Blue<\/em>, a pie topped with blackened steak, gorgonzola, shallots, sun-dried tomato pesto and mozzarella.\u00a0 This gourmet pizza is terrific!\u00a0 The gorgonzola is of medium sharpness and gives the pie a wonderfully pungent aroma.\u00a0 The blackened steak is cut into small bite-sized pieces and while you might be tempted to pluck off and eat each piece separately, don&#8217;t dare desecrate the harmonious marriage of flavors on this inspired pizza.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 455px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 455px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 455\/342;vertical-align: text-top; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; border: 4px solid black;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/nm\/pizza\/Images\/Images\/Sandia04.jpg\" alt=\"White Pizza\" width=\"455\" height=\"342\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">White Pizza<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">The traditional pizza bianca or white pizza generally has no sauce, just a covering of mozzarella cheese atop of garlic, olive oil and herbs.\u00a0 At Sandia Crust, some artistic liberties are taken with the <em>White Pizza<\/em> offering.\u00a0 Alisa, a creative pizzaioli artisan if there ever was one, tops this pizza with Mascarpone cheese, olive oil, Roma tomatoes, roasted garlic, caramelized onions and mozzarella cheese.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a marvelous melding of ingredients on an artistic canvas of perfectly charred dough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">All pizzas are 12-inches though a 16-inch option is also available.\u00a0 With a day&#8217;s advance notice Sandia Crust will also prepare a gluten-free pie for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Sandia Crust Pizza Company was initially ensconced in a strip mall on the west side of the Turquoise Highway, then\u00a0 moved to the former site of Nouveau Noodles, a stand-alone facility before settling on a site just south of the Sandia Park entrance to the Sandia Mountains. \u00a0It&#8217;s a heavily trafficked restaurant, much of its business being a robust take-out operation. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Eating in is also an option and a great way to imbibe San Francisco culture on the East Mountains.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">The restaurant&#8217;s salad repertoire is as intriguing as the pizza menu.\u00a0 The spinach salad is composed artistically of fresh baby spinach, smoked bacon, caramelized onions, walnuts, goat cheese and embellished with a gorgonzola vinaigrette dressing.\u00a0 The dressing may sound like a joining of unlikely ingredients, but in the hands of the Youngs, it&#8217;s likely good enough to convert the most staunch of carnivores.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">In its annual Food &amp; Wine issue for 2012, <a title=\"Albuquerque The Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abqthemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Albuquerque The Magazine<\/a> awarded the Sandia Crust Pizza Company a Hot Plate Award signifying the selection of its grilled vegetarian lasagna as one of the \u201cmost interesting, special and tasty dishes around.\u201d\u00a0 Considering the thousands of potential selections, to be singled out is quite an honor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Whether you&#8217;re into 60s era nostalgia or just want terrific pizza, the Sandia Crust Pizza Company is more than a worthwhile drive on one of America&#8217;s most scenic highways.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a destination restaurant that will make you wish it was closer to home (or more likely that you had the good fortune to live on the back side of the Sandias.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>Sandia Crust Pizza Company<\/strong><br \/>\n1218 North Highway 14<br \/>\n<strong>Cedar Crest, New Mexico<br \/>\n<\/strong>505-407-2312<br style=\"font-family: Verdana;\" \/><strong>LATEST VISIT<\/strong>: 29 September 2007<br \/>\n<strong># OF VISITS<\/strong>: 1<br \/>\n<strong>RATING<\/strong>: *<br \/>\n<strong>COST<\/strong>: $$<br \/>\n<strong>BEST BET<\/strong>: Black n&#8217; Blue Pizza, White Pizza<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/60\/651045\/restaurant\/Albuquerque\/Sandia-Crust-Pizza-Cedar-Crest\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/651045\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"Sandia Crust Pizza on Urbanspoon\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadheads and pizza have been inextricably tied since 1993 when (legend has it) an audacious pizza delivery boy absconded with several cassette tapes from Jerry Garcia&#8217;s kitchen counter.\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t take long before late-night Grateful Dead radio programs around the country were playing second- and third-generation &#8220;dubs&#8221; of the rough mixes that have come to be known as &#8220;The Pizza Tapes.&#8221; 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