Pizzeria Sapienza

"We were wanting New York style pizza and we definitely were pleased with that. However, not very happy with the service. We got there an hour before they were closing and they didn't seem to want us there. They even started putting the chairs on the tables 45 minutes before they closed while we were still sitting there eating our pizza. Just felt like we were being rushed. We even reassured them that we would be out of there before they closed, but it didn't seem to matter."

"Chicken, Bacon Ranch pizza was very good! Having lived in NYC for most of my adult life I’d say this is close enough to a NYC slice for me."

"Moved to downtown Albany a few years ago and have been looking for a go to pizzeria. The food is pretty tasty and you get a lot for the price. The employees are nice. I'll definitely be back."

"I ordered bruschetta and 3 slices of pizza and ranch dip (to meet the delivery minimum of $15). THE GOOD: Their minimum is a very reasonable price. The pizza crust was good. It was thin and crispy. Not soggy and well done throughout. THE BAD: The bruschetta was not bruschetta. It was literally a hoagie roll sliced in half and cut into pieces soaked with balsamic vinegar and diced tomatoes. It was completely soft and soggy. See the photo. The pizza was okayish. I tried cheese, spinach and ricotta, and tomato basil. The tomato basil had two teeny tiny prices of basil on it, I didn't even get to them when I tried the slice. It tastes like cheese pizza with uncooked tomatoes on top and no marinara. The ricotta and spinach would have been good except the sauce was so uneven I'd just get mouth fulls of sauce that totally overtook the spinach and ricotta. Had the sauce been distributed well, it would have been good. The cheese slice had the same problem. The tip of the slice was DRENCHED in sauce. All the cheese slid off the tip, it was just tons of sauce and a bit of crust. The the middle was NO SAUCE. None. Not one drop. Just crust and cheese. Then the top/edges had a tiny bit of sauce. It's as if someone was making a round pizza and put several ladles full of sauce right in the very middle of the dough and then failed to distribute it outward. There was also a large black, burnt chunk of flour/dough/I don't know what stuck to the bottom of the pizza. I had this weird sensation in my mouth of something gritty and hard and couldn't figure out what it was at first. See photo. The ranch cannot be called ranch. It was less of a ranch than the bruschetta was a bruschetta. It was like sour cream and a splash of buttermilk maybe? No spices, no classic ranch taste. Also very thick. Consistently of sour cream, not ranch. Overall, I wouldn't eat from here again. Save yourself the long wait and try something else."