Sauced Pizza Coming to Glenwood South
A New York styled pizza restaurant is coming to the former Enoteca Vin space. Sauced Pizza is the creation of Mike Lombardo and Kurt Lam, and will feature pizza by the slice, appetizers, calzones, and signature pizzas. The restaurant will open late this summer.
Here is more from the restaurant’s press release:
Mike Lombardo (Lucky B’s) and Kurt Lam have announced a new venue that brings New York-Style pizza, a complementary lunch and dinner menu, and a casual, yet upscale full bar to the popular Downtown Raleigh district known as Glenwood South.
The eatery - opening this summer - will feature not only pizza by the slice, but also appetizers, salads, calzones, and other casual-fare menu items. An emphasis on fresh ingredients and detailed attention to service and experience is what owners Lombardo and Lam are paying careful attention to, ensuring customers a dining and bar experience that will warrant many returned visits.
“I’ve been in the bar and nightlife business for 12 years now here on Glenwood South and I’ve always felt like a New York-Style pizza restaurant would be successful, and I still do”, says Lombardo. “This is something that I know this market will appreciate - not only from a nightlife-perspective, but as a lunch, dinner, and late-night establishment catering to customers of all types. We want families to be just as welcome and comfortable here as the customers who will be in for a late-night slice.”
-->Aside from an appealing lunch and dinner menu, Sauced Pizza will also feature several high-definition flat screen televisions and an open layout, encouraging diners and drinkers alike to enjoy the venue for their favorite sporting events or as a stopping point for any “night out on Glenwood”. The recipe for music at Sauced will include rock ‘n’ roll favorites from U2, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Dave Matthews Band, and more.
“Our goal is to have many different people come in for many different reasons”, says Lam. “That’s why we’re going to serve not only a fantastic slice of New York-style pizza, but also feature dessert selections from the well-known Hayes Barton Café & Dessertery, as well as a robust wine menu and beer selection.”
And while last call for alcohol may come at 1:30am, Lombardo and Lam are excited to offer fresh slices well past then for the hungry late-night crowd. “Serving good, fresh food well past last call is something we know is really going to set us apart”, notes Lam.
Sauced Pizza has already begun the process of making 410 Glenwood home. Lombardo and Lam are encouraging those interested to follow along with the progress online at www.SaucedPizza.com where pictures, video, and menu choices will be shared before the restaurant and bar’s grand opening later this summer. Grand opening staff is now being recruited by formal application available on the website. Those interested in being placed on the guest list for the grand opening can sign up online as well.
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June 4th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
FINALLY! A pizza (by the slice) place on Glenwood South.
June 4th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Thanks for the SUPER quick post, GoGoRaleigh!
Hope to see you there!
June 4th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Thanks for this post Dana. If they can come close to Lilly’s without the obnoxious staff and blaring music it would be great. Moonlight is good, but Lilly’s is better - except for what I feel like I put up with to eat there.
June 4th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Excellent addition!!! Thanks for the news.
June 5th, 2009 at 8:06 am
I wonder how this new business addition will affect Mellow Mushroom?
June 5th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
I’ve eaten at Lilly’s for what, 14 years now and I can’t say that the staff has ever struck me as obnoxious.
I’ll check it out though. If for no other reason than to pick up some HB desserts without (hopefully) the long wait of HB.
June 5th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
It sounds like a different crowed will go there. That part of Glenwood has such parking problems.
June 6th, 2009 at 10:10 am
I don’t see a conflict between this place and Mellow Mushroom, especially with pizza by the slice. To me, Mellow Mushroom has always been a place where you go for atmosphere anyway, not so much for their pizza.
I’ll be interested in seeing how truly “New York” their pizza is. There’s only two or three pizza places in all of Raleigh I’ve been to where the pizza hasn’t disappointed me, so far. Not that anyone else’s pizza was bad, but if you’ve ever had real NY or Chicago style pizza up north, then you know what I mean.
June 7th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
I think this is a good idea especially if they are opened until 2:30 or so AM. Now I say that until the late night drunks make it close at midnight.
For a pizza place, does anyone else think that the Hard Times Cafe location would be better than VIN ? On the street eating and location and more casual ?
Just a humble opinion.