{"id":53495,"date":"2019-11-23T17:16:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T23:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=53495"},"modified":"2026-04-05T19:28:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:28:23","slug":"pizza-barn-edgewood-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=53495","title":{"rendered":"Pizza Barn &#8211; Edgewood, New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_53496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53496\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn01.gif?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-53496 size-full lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 750px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 750\/507;border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn01.gif?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"507\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn01.gif?lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 750w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn01.gif?size=128x87&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 128w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn01.gif?size=256x173&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 256w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn01.gif?size=384x260&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 384w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn01.gif?size=512x346&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 512w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn01.gif?size=640x433&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 640w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pizza Barn in Edgewood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\"> \u201c<em>I love my pizza so much,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that<\/em><br \/>\n<em>my pizza might actually love me, in return.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair.<\/em>\u201d<br \/>\n\u2015 <strong>Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">Wikipedia describes the 2010 biographical romantic novel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elizabethgilbert.com\/books\/eat-pray-love\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Eat Pray Love<\/strong><\/a> as &#8220;a<em> journey around the world that becomes a quest for<\/em>&#8220;&#8230;pizza. Okay, I took some literary liberties with the &#8220;pizza&#8221; thing.\u00a0 What author Elizabeth Gilbert was actually in pursuit of was <em>&#8220;self-discovery.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0 Pizza&#8230;.Self-discovery.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that pretty much the same thing?\u00a0 In her travels, Elizabeth went all the way to Italy to discover the art of pleasure, a significant aspect of which is the hedonistic, indulgent joy of eating pizza, pasta, gelato and other treasure troves of absolute deliciousness prepared as they can only be prepared in Bel Paese<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">Thankfully denizens of the Duke City don&#8217;t have to cross an ocean to partake of the joys of eating very good, if not life-altering <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?cat=68\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pizza<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?page_id=1255&amp;cpage=1#comment-1142837\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>recent comment<\/strong><\/a> from Jackie suggested such pizza might be found as nearby as Edgewood, just east of the Sandia Mountains.\u00a0 I realize some people approach a journey beyond the Sandias with the same trepidation as the Starship Enterprise approaching the Neutral Zone, but for great pizza I would argue that even Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock would defy Federation dictates and violate the Neutral Zone Treaty.\u00a0 It&#8217;s only logical.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53497\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn02.gif?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-53497 size-full lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 750px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 750\/563;border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn02.gif?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn02.gif?lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 750w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn02.gif?size=128x96&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 128w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn02.gif?size=256x192&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 256w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn02.gif?size=384x288&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 384w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn02.gif?size=512x384&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 512w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn02.gif?size=640x480&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 640w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Among the Accoutrements of This Barn: A Hay Cart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">My own reason&#8230;er, excuse for not having ventured across the final frontier east of the Sandias to explore great big pizza, seek out new pork rib tips and boldly go where no restaurant critic has gone before&#8230; was that my Kim and I were looking in another galaxy.\u00a0 Jackie noted that the Pizza Barn in Edgewood &#8220;<em>made the list of the 10 Best Pizza places in New Mexico by several years running, by the Best Things New Mexico website<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0 Not only did Pizza Barn make <a href=\"https:\/\/iamnm.com\/1-pizza-barn-edgewood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>I Am New Mexico<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s list, it made the list at number one&#8211;the best of the top 20 New Mexico pizza joints<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">Perusing <a href=\"https:\/\/iamnm.com\/20-best-pizza-parlors-in-new-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>I Am New Mexico<\/strong><\/a> further, what the site was actually evaluating was &#8220;<em>a slice of New Mexico\u2019s heavenly green chile pizza<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0 Further, I Am&#8217;s compilation of the &#8220;<em>top 20 best pizza parlors in New Mexico<\/em>&#8221; is three years old.\u00a0 As pizza paramours know, a lot can change in three years.\u00a0 Other than a picture and a Google map, the site didn&#8217;t provide any explanation as to why Pizza Barn earned such a lofty distinction.\u00a0 Nor did Jackie.\u00a0 Thankfully, my friend Captain Tuttle who visited Pizza Barn a couple of years ago remembered it as &#8220;<em>being pretty good \u2013 the pizza anyway, as we didn\u2019t have anything else. Good crust, just the right thickness, and cheesy<\/em>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53498\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn03.gif?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-53498 size-full lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 750px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 750\/563;border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn03.gif?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn03.gif?lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 750w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn03.gif?size=128x96&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 128w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn03.gif?size=256x192&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 256w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn03.gif?size=384x288&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 384w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn03.gif?size=512x384&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 512w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn03.gif?size=640x480&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 640w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cavernous Dining Room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">You don&#8217;t need the navigational skills of Starfleet&#8217;s most accomplished engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/memory-alpha.fandom.com\/wiki\/Montgomery_Scott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Montgomery &#8220;Scotty&#8221; Scott<\/strong><\/a> to find Pizza Barn.\u00a0\u00a0 All you&#8217;ve got to do is point your own shuttle craft east and get off on the Edgewood exit.\u00a0 You can&#8217;t miss the big red barn nestled under a canopy of pine trees.\u00a0 Sure, big red barns are much more common in Nebraska or Iowa, but they&#8217;re not necessarily out-of-place in New Mexico.\u00a0 At least not this one.\u00a0 Besides, it&#8217;s pretty charming.\u00a0 The interior is comfy and cozy with plenty of booth seating.\u00a0 There&#8217;s even dog-friendly outdoor seating though you probably don&#8217;t want to visit on a 43-degree day as we did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">True to the name on the marquee, pizza is the big red barn&#8217;s raison d&#8217;\u00eatre though the menu also lists calzones, bread sticks, green chile bread sticks, zucchini, pork rib tips, buffalo wings, cinnamon sticks, salads and more. There are some two dozen specialty pizzas on that menu as well as a Barn special with five toppings of your choice.\u00a0 Both the Barn special and the cheese pizza are available in fourteen- and sixteen-inch sizes as well as a ten-inch personal pizza size.\u00a0 The specialty pizzas are all sixteen-inches.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53499\" style=\"width: 681px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn04.gif?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-53499 size-full lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 681px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 681\/700;border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn04.gif?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"681\" height=\"700\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn04.gif?lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 681w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn04.gif?size=128x132&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 128w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn04.gif?size=256x263&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 256w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn04.gif?size=384x395&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 384w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn04.gif?size=512x526&amp;lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1 512w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pork Rib Tips<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">Several months ago, my friend Tom Molitor, our resident walking Wikipedia and sage sommelier lamented that it &#8220;<em>continues to be my destiny to remain on an Arthurian journey searching for the Holy Grail of BBQ &#8211; rib tips<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0 Neither of us knew at the time that he had but to cross the Sandias to find the ribs for which he yenned.\u00a0 Yes, Bob, the Pizza Barn offers an appetizer sized portion of <em><strong>pork rib tips<\/strong><\/em>, six tender, smoked, fall-off-the-bone beauties slathered in barbecue sauce.\u00a0 Sure, there&#8217;s a bit of cartilage to navigate around, but the rib tips themselves are quite good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">It&#8217;s impossible to know whether or not Elizabeth Gilbert would consider the Pizza Barn&#8217;s pizza a pie with which she&#8217;d have a relationship, maybe even an affair.\u00a0 At the very least, she&#8217;d probably enjoy a slice or three.\u00a0 My Kim ordered the specialty pizza named for the country which taught Elizabeth about the joys of eating&#8211;<em><strong>The Italiano<\/strong><\/em> (roasted garlic, feta cheese, Italian sausage, fresh mushrooms and sliced Roma tomatoes).\u00a0 In all honesty, the ingredient which prompted this particular pizza choice was the roasted garlic which she loves in quantities sufficient to ward off a family of vampires.\u00a0 She quickly discarded all the Roma tomatoes.\u00a0 The pizza is somewhere between thin and thick, crispy and soft, leaning more to the &#8220;right-sized&#8221; thickness Captain Tuttle described.\u00a0 My Kim, who&#8217;s not a fan of the &#8220;char is a flavor&#8221; pies so prevalent among purveyors of supermodel thin &#8220;new-age&#8221; pizza, loved the light char on The Italiano.\u00a0 Me, I loved that this pizza was actually better for breakfast than it was for lunch.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a lot to be said for pizza that tastes better the day after.\u00a0 It may not top my own &#8220;best pizza in New Mexico&#8221; list, but it&#8217;s reason enough to visit Edgewood again.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53500\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53500\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn05.gif?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53500 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 750px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 750\/626;border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/PizzaBarn05.gif?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"626\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Italiano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">The Pizza Barn may be on the other side of the mountain, but it should be on the radar for everyone in their own quest for a slice of paradise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>The Pizza Barn<\/strong><br \/>\n11 Plaza Loop<br \/>\n<strong>Edgewood, New Mexico<\/strong><br \/>\n(505) 286-2700<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pizzabarn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Website<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Pizza-Barn-128181177217077\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Facebook Page<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>LATEST VISIT<\/strong>: 23 November 2019<br \/>\n<strong># OF VISITS<\/strong>: 1<br \/>\n<strong>RATING<\/strong>: N\/R<br \/>\n<strong>COST<\/strong>: $$<br \/>\n<strong>BEST BET<\/strong>: The Italiano, Pork Rib Tips<br \/>\n<strong>REVIEW #1139<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair.\u201d \u2015 Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love Wikipedia describes the 2010 biographical romantic novel Eat Pray Love as &#8220;a journey around the world that becomes a quest for&#8220;&#8230;pizza. Okay, I took some literary liberties with the &#8220;pizza&#8221; thing.\u00a0 What author Elizabeth Gilbert was actually in pursuit of was &#8220;self-discovery.&#8221;\u00a0 Pizza&#8230;.Self-discovery.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that pretty much the same thing?\u00a0 In her travels, Elizabeth went all the way to Italy to discover the art of pleasure, a significant aspect of which is the hedonistic, indulgent joy of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[703,141,68,5647],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dog-friendly","category-new-mexico","category-pizza","category-rating-n-r"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pizza Barn - Edgewood, New Mexico - Gil&#039;s Thrilling (And Filling) Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=53495\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pizza Barn - Edgewood, New Mexico - Gil&#039;s Thrilling (And Filling) Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cI love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. 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