{"id":8594,"date":"2013-01-23T06:09:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T14:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=8594"},"modified":"2013-01-23T06:09:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T14:09:48","slug":"marios-pizza-and-restaurant-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=8594","title":{"rendered":"Marios Pizza and Restaurant Review,  Albuquerque, NM &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Editor note \u2013 I am currently traveling and will be mostly posting reviews that I left unfinished for one reason or another, while building up a repertoire of the new places I hit!\u00a0 There will also be reviews from some new reporters we have signed up).<\/p>\n<p>Local favorite, going on 50 years, I was delighted to get to try it, as it has a good rep.<\/p>\n<p>Spoiler alert.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know why it has a good rep.\u00a0 Hand tossed crusts, and surely house-made tomato sauce, but the upside stops there.\u00a0 The sauce was flavorless (meaning it is crushed and pureed tomatoes, without a hint of herbs or spices), and is probably the same product they sell by the jar as a pasta sauce.<\/p>\n<p>Sausage was pre-cooked crumbles, and the pepperoni was oily and cupped, indicating a high fat content, and a low price. \u00a0Skimpy on the toppings, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Mario\u2019s would do in a pinch, if one were in Albuquerque and being pinched.\u00a0\u00a0 For me, that thankfully only happens once every five years or so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mario3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8596\" title=\"mario3\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/mario3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/60\/650762\/restaurant\/Uptown\/Marios-Pizzeria-Ristorante-Albuquerque\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; padding: 0px; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/650762\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"Mario's Pizzeria &amp; Ristorante on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marios Pizza and Restaurant Review<\/p>\n<p>Marios Pizza and Restaurant Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Editor note \u2013 I am currently traveling and will be mostly posting reviews that I left unfinished for one reason or another, while building up a repertoire of the new places I hit!\u00a0 There will also be reviews from some new reporters we have signed up). Local favorite, going on 50 years, I was delighted&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=8594\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marios Pizza and Restaurant Review,  Albuquerque, NM &#8211;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,34,22,26],"tags":[458,2211,2464,3055],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}