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Saggios, One of the Most Colorful Restaurants in Albuquerque<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Where in New Mexico can you go to see his eminence Pope John Paul, II pontificate to Zorba the Greek, Anthony Quinn? Where can you go to see nattily attired cowboy John Wayne cavorting in a cerulean swimming pool with the material girl herself? Where can you find Beetlejuice perched on a saguaro, looking on as other luminaries (including the Beatles and the Supremes) enjoy the pristine waters by the intersection of Central and Cornell Avenues? Only on the imaginative tromp-l’oeil murals which festoon the walls at Saggios can you engage in such fantasy. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Tromp-l’oeil on the Wall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The fantasy world begins on the restaurant’s Cornell Avenue frontage. Approaching from the south, you might not even know you’re approaching Saggios because the name on the brick and mortar facade is “Lupo Rosso” which translates from Italian to “red wolf,” undoubtedly a tribute to the University of New Mexico Lobos whose uniform colors are cherry and silver. Where you might expect windows, instead you’ll see a montage of sports images: Lobo legend Brian Urlacher hoisting the George Halas trophy overhead, Mia Hamm celebrating the United States gold medal win in soccer and Cassius Clay standing defiant over a vanquished Sonny Liston.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Can you Name Everyone On This Mural?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A life-sized ceramic status of Cassius Clay (before the world recognized him as Muhammad Ali) with all his triumphant sinew and muscle stands in front of a vintage Mercedes Benz yellow cab, its front and side panel serving as a sidebar in which some of the best cheesecake, cannoli and cake desserts in town are showcased. You’ll also find life-sized statues of Babe Ruth, the New York Yankees’ Sultan of Swat and of Marilyn Monroe, laughing as her skirt billows upwards from a subway vent’s blast during the filming of the immortal The Seven Year Itch.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yellow Cab Houses Some of the Best Cheesecake and Cannoli in Town<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It wouldn’t be a stretch to select Saggios as one of the city’s most visually captivating milieus. There’s something to capture your eye no matter where you turn. Hanging plants drape down from the ceilings as do several LCD televisions (normally tuned to seasonal sporting events) strategically placed for optimal viewing. The entire restaurant is replete with trompe-l’oeil, an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects really exist, instead of being mere, two-dimensional paintings. It’s a must see! <\/span><\/p>\n

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It’s a Good Thing You Don’t Have to Get Past Muhammad Ali to Get Your Cheesecake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Years ago, a humble UNM area pizzeria named Nunzio’s, named for family patriarch Nunzio DiGregorio, used to prepare the best pizza in my universe as I knew it before moving to Massachusetts and experiencing East Coast pizza nirvana. Ambitious efforts at expansion failed and the Nunzio’s trademark and recipes were sold. Ultimately, the DeNunzio family reopened under the name Saggios and still serves very good pizza and much more. In 2010, Northeast Heights (2600 Juan Tabo, N.E.) residents could once again share in the Saggios experience with the opening of Fastino’s, a sort of scion of Saggios reborn and rechristened.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Frida Callo and Pablo Picaso in A Conversation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2005, Saggios was selected “best pizza” by Albuquerque the Magazine<\/em> readers in the magazine’s inaugural “best of” issue. It repeated in 2007, yet in its annual food and wine issue in 2010, Saggios was selected as only the third best pizza in Albuquerque. At each pizzeria rated, the magazine staff ordered a pepperoni pizza and rated it on its taste, appearance, authenticity and creativity. After tallying points, the top five had a pizza “playoff” in which the finalists served the specialty pie of their choice as well as a pepperoni pizza. Placing third is quite an achievement.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Batman and the Three Stooges<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s not just because of the restaurant’s experiential aspects that I’ve had Saggios as one of my top rated pizza restaurants in town for years and though an usurper or two has unseated it, it’s still one of the best in town. This is the only Duke City pizza I’ve ever dreamed about (to the detriment of my pillow). Over the years Saggios has grown beyond being “just another” pizza restaurant as it now offers various pastas, salads, calzones, foccacia sandwiches and wonderful desserts, all of which are available for dining-in or carry-out. Saggios is open seven days a week until at least ten o’clock in the evening.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Beyond These Pillars is Where You’ll Place Your Order<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s hard to get past the wonderful slices–still as large as the Louvre’s glass pyramid and featuring just out of the oven baker quality crust. The crust tastes, and more importantly smells, like fresh baked bread. It’s a delicious canvass for whatever ingredients you pile on it. Pizzas are available in traditional Neapolitan crust or in a pan-baked Sicilian-style crust. Two slices will make up an entire meal. Some claim slices are better than entire pies and this pizza isn’t quite as good served cold, but I’ve got no complaints. Saggios pizza makes no claim to New York or Chicago style. Each pizza is crafted with the utmost of care as if your repeat patronage is paramount.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Four slices of Saggios pizza.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

9 January 2009<\/strong>: In addition to standard pizza offerings, Saggios gourmet pizza array is as impressive and diverse as you’ll find anywhere in the Duke City. The Thai chicken pizza<\/em><\/strong> features a captivating sweet and spicy peanut sauce that compares favorably to the sauces served at some Thai restaurants. If you’ve ever been stranded in the culinary wasteland that is the Phoenix airport where the best dining option is probably California Pizza Kitchen<\/a><\/strong>, you might be familiar with Thai chicken pizza. The California Pizza Kitchen is renown for their innovative pizzas, some, like the Thai chicken pizza, which are quite good.<\/span><\/p>\n

Saggios version is much, much better. Slathered onto a crusty ten-inch canvas is a spicy ginger and peanut sauce along with whole Spanish peanuts and grilled chicken. The ginger-peanut sauce is reminiscent of some of the best peanut sauces we’ve had in Thai restaurants. It’s not incendiary spicy, but does have a tongue- and taste bud tingling bite.\u00a0 Even the chicken, my very least favorite protein, is enjoyable (maybe because it reminds me of Thai satay).
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The Thai Chicken Pizza at Saggio’s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gourmet pizzas are hand-crafted with your choice of tasty crusts: traditional, Rosemary whole wheat, basil pesto and chile. Each gourmet pizza is ten-inches (or about the size of two regular slices) and is intended to serve one or two people. Gourmet offerings are the Margherita, Portabello, Chicken Alfredo, California Vegetarian, Florentine, Mediterranean, Spinach, Barbecue, Rustic and Milano.\u00a0 You can also build your own gourmet pizza with your choice of crust, sauce and three toppings.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

14 January 2020<\/strong>:\u00a0 The Milano (marinara sauce, Italian sausage, prosciutto, Genoa salami, mozzarella, oregano and pesto) is another terrific gourmet pizza offering.\u00a0 Just ask my publicist Bob of the Village of Los Ranchos: “Pizza (The Milano<\/strong>) is as deliciously looking as the pic and a hearty serving for two. Tastefully spicy per the Marinara Sauce, Italian Sausage, Proscuitto, Geona Salami, Mozzarella, Oregano, and Pesto, I claim it a great pizza to which you don\u2019t need to add pepper flakes. Lo, that one would even think of salting it! Yes, it continues being vibrantly noisy as some would expect in such an Italian setting<\/em>.”
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The Milano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

31 May 2009<\/strong>: Panini and focaccia sandwiches are crafted on Italian bread baked fresh daily with herbs and spices in the dough. Each sandwich is piled high (an exaggeration just about anywhere else) with specialty meats, provolone cheese, Romaine lettuce, roasted red peppers and Roma tomatoes. Sandwiches are served with a pasta salad. Among the sandwich offerings, the Napoli<\/em><\/strong>, a meatball sandwich on focaccia bread includes some of the best meatballs and sauce marriage I’ve had since Massachusetts some 30 years ago. The meatballs actually taste like meat, not some gritty filler. The sauce is a sweet and zesty marinara flavored with garlic and basil. <\/span><\/p>\n

The football sized calzones<\/em><\/strong> are the among the very best in the city with a garlicky tomato sauce that imbues each calzone with richness and spice. They are baked in your choice of toasty crusts: traditional, Rosemary whole wheat, basil pesto and mozzarella. A family of four could probably share a calzone; that’s how large they are. The four meat (sausage, pepperoni, bacon, Italian beef) calzone is made with rich ricotta, pesto and mozzarella.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Napoli, an excellent meatball sandwich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

23 May 2012<\/strong>: Frank Sinatra would love the Lasagna My Way<\/em><\/strong> because it truly is made the way you want it. The lasagna starts with noodles, ricotta and mozzarella then you choose two ingredients (meat or vegetarian) and a sauce. The meat selections include turkey, Black Forest Ham, sausage, Italian beef, chicken breast, proscuitto and shrimp) while the sauce options are marinara, Alfredo and basil cream with Roma tomatoes. It’s an excellent lasagna, easily large enough to feed two people or one UNM Lobo defensive tackle.<\/span><\/p>\n

28 November 2010<\/strong>: The pasta menu features many of the “usual suspects” but it really showcases some uniquely prepared entrees such as a tuna arrabiata and an incendiary shrimp diablo<\/em><\/strong>, a dish not for the faint of heart or the timid of taste bud. One of my intrepid readers recognized me as a fellow masochist when it comes to spicy food and urged me to try it. He described it as coming in a variety of heat levels<\/em> though he gets his extra spicy (spicy or medium is probably the norm for most<\/em>). This is indeed an eye-opening (maybe eye-watering) pasta dish, its heat coming from a surfeit of sauce impregnated with those potent pepper flake seeds, but it also has a discernible garlic flavor as well. The shrimp are bigger than some lobster tails I’ve seen. They’re also sweet and succulent.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Shrimp Diablo, not for the faint of heart or timid of taste bud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A sub-section of the pasta menu is called the “Matrimonio de A’More,” a play of words meaning a “marriage of love.” That aptly describes the melding of mix and match pastas and sauces which complement one another very well. You are invited to select your choice of fresh-cooked pasta (spaghetti, penne, fettuccine, shells, linguine, bowtie) and sauce: Marinara, Alfredo, Cilantro Pesto or Basil Pesto (olive oil, Roma tomatoes and fresh basil). All sauces are housemade daily on the premises.<\/span><\/p>\n

28 November 2010<\/strong>: The pasta dishes are served in humongous bowls, about the size of the bowls of pho served at many local Vietnamese restaurants. Each is accompanied by a piece of warm, home-style Italian foccacia bread. The spaghetti with meatballs<\/em><\/strong> dish will easily feed two. The star of this dish is the meatballs, succulent orbs of deliciousness. The pasta is prepared at just beyond al dente. As with several of the pasta dishes at Saggio’s, the sauce is almost an embarrassment of excess; the sauce practically drowns the pasta and overwhelms the pasta a bit.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Spaghetti with meatballs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

28 July 2016<\/strong>: Obviously sympathetic with the student budget, Saggio’s offers a lunch size menu which is served all day long. You need not be a student at the University to avail yourself of the bargains found therein. Unlike some bargain-priced lunch menus where portions are on the parsimonious side, Saggio’s lunch size menu portions are prodigious. If you’re used to calzones being the size of a semi-inflated football, you won’t get that, but you’ll still get a formidable calzone<\/strong><\/em>. It’ll fill you up, not overfill you. You’ll also do a double-take in reading the composition of that calzone: Pepperoni, Canadian Bacon, Italian Sausage, Italian beef, Ricotta, Mozzarella and Pesto all topped with Marinara.<\/span><\/p>\n

If, like me, your first inclination is to wonder how you’re going to have to choose from among all those ingredients, you’ll be happy to hear they’re all to be found in each and every lunch size calzone. With all candor, my server apprised me that the calzones are pre-made (and are certainly reheated upon order). Texturally, the calzone is a bit on the chewy side, a challenge for the plastic fork and knife to penetrate and cut. Once you’re able to “breach the hull” you’ll delight in all those meats and cheeses. Amazingly, the calzone is served with a side Caesar salad. Every item on the lunch size menu is well south of ten dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lunch-Sized Calzone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1 January 2009<\/strong>: Desserts are deliciously decadent creations made by Eli’s Cheesecake Company<\/a><\/strong> of Chicago, a Windy City institution. <\/span>Offerings, all nattily displayed in the unique Mercedes Benz yellow cab include several extraordinary cheesecakes–the phenomenally tasty turtle, the luscious key lime, magnificent Mississippi Mud and the moccachino cheesecakes among them plus some of the best chocolate cannoli in town. Perhaps it’s solely my imagination, but it seems you can have a different cheesecake every visit to Saggio’s. <\/span><\/p>\n

You can also find Eli’s Cheesecake at Fastino’s<\/a><\/strong>, the fresh fast food concept owned and operated by the Saggio’s braintrust. Housed in a former Popeye’s Chicken & Biscuits<\/a><\/strong>, Fastino’s is tailored more for the gobble-and-go culture than for the stay, scarf and study confines of Saggio’s. A cavalcade of vehicles snakes through the convenient drive-through at all hours in which Fastino’s is open. Slices of pizza and sandwiches are the most popular draw, but a number of surprisingly gourmet-style pasta dishes (such as Cajun lobster ravioli, Shrimp Puttanesca and Veal Saltimboca) and salads are also available as are a number of breakfast sandwiches. The restaurant, though much smaller than Saggio’s still boasts those realistic murals by Scott Kuykendall. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Cinnamon-Chocolate (left) and Turtle Cheesecakes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During any given visit to Saggio’s, you just might run into University of New Mexico Lobo athletes and their coaches. This is the quintessential college area restaurant, but it’s frequented not only by students. Everyone in Albuquerque knows about Saggio’s and most love its pizza.
\n Saggio’s<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\n107 Cornell, S.E.
\nAlbuquerque, New Mexico<\/strong>
\n505-255-5454
\nWeb Site<\/strong><\/a> | Facebook Page<\/strong><\/a>
\nLATEST VISIT<\/strong>: 14 January 2020
\n# OF VISITS<\/strong>: 25
\nRATING<\/strong>: Very Good<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Good to very good food; generally solid; delivers consistent quality, strong technique, and a comfortable, enjoyable dining experience
\nCOST<\/strong>: $ – $$
\nBEST BET<\/strong>: Cheesecake, Chocolate Canoli, Thai Chicken Pizza, Sausage Pizza, The Napoli, Shrimp Diablo, Lasagna, Lunch Size Calzone<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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