Il Vicino

Il Vicino Review

The pizzas at Il Vicino are baked in a European-style wood-fired oven. If a suitable combination of the 25 possible toppings eludes you, try the rustica pie, a buttery cornmeal crust topped with roasted garlic, artichokes, kalamata olives, and capers. The competent kitchen also turns out Caesar salad, spinach lasagna, and designer sandwiches. One of the house-brewed beers, say, the Wet Mountain India Pale Ale—which consistently wins awards at the Great American Beer Festival—rounds out the experience. There's another branch, usually less crowded, in a shopping center not too far from Sandia Peak Aerial Tramway.