Upper Crust Pizza El Dorado - Santa Fe

Large local pizza and salad. Not sure why negative reviews, but we have the combo pizza and a cheeseless pizza with red peppers and sun-dried tomatoes. Both were excellent with a New Mexico Pepper Punsch! We also ordered the spinach salad and it was also excellent. Dined on the outside terrace and had great service. Definitely recommended and we will return the next time in the area.

Pros: Good pizza. Crispy bottom, good flavor, good toppings. Cons: Wings were so-so and service was pretty bad. Ordered pickup, which is a drive through window. Arrived in the amount of time instructed, but when I pulled up they told me my order wasn't ready and would I mind driving around the building and getting back in line so they could help the people behind me. That was fine. But I ended up having to do this 3 additional times over the course of 40 minutes while I waited for my pizza.

Upper Crust Pizza has indoor and outdoor seating with counter service and a drive-up window. On a late April Thursday, around noon, we sat inside ordering a Meatball Sub $10.75 and the Lunch Special. The meatball sub was very mild in flavor on a french roll with a side salad and chips. The Lunch Special was a petite 6? pizza, a side salad and a drink raspberry lemonade. The pizza comes with tomato sauce and cheese but I added pesto and kalamata olives for an additional charge Total $11.20. It was delivered hot with a crunchy crust. Significant ambient noise from a loud exhaust fan and intrusive music made it difficult to converse. Cursory customer service. Overall the lunch experience was underwhelming. We will not go back.

The pictures are not the pizzas the New Management is serving. The new pizzas are more doughy with less toppings. Think pizza bread with sauce and thin toppings. No longer like Chicago pizzas. The green pepper is either Hatch or Poblano, not sweet green peppers like Chicago. Its an ok pizza, but no longer like Chicago.

The pizza is worth the drive to Santa Fe (El Dorado) from Albuquerque. The crust is thin and the sauce has great taste adding the fresh toppings. Got 3 LG pizzas, my daughter took one bite and did her happy dance!!