Sadie’s on Academy

This is the Sadie’s closest to us. The food is the same at all three locations: huge, hot, and homemade. I always get the nachos, size small because even the small is enough to feed five people. Heaped high with chips, ground beef, beans and enough cheese, guacamole, and sour cream to choke a horse. Delicious. And did I say huge? Enormous. Satisfies my nacho craving like nowhere else. Husband gets the carne adovada burrito and the kid gets the cheese quesadilla. Everyone has leftovers and potbellies when we leave. Salsa is blazing hot, the way we like it.
The service is spotty here… Like the servers more at the location on 4^th. For whatever reason, they are obsessed with seating us by the kitchen, to the point where I have to specifically ask «table not anywhere close to the kitchen» when we arrive, and even then, we usually get the table second-​closest to the kitchen. Sometimes we get an awesome server, and sometimes it takes ten minutes for anyone to notice we are at the table. Deducting a single star because I figure the staff is probably in a food coma, too. And the nachos are really that good.

I was visiting the ABQ and was told this is one of their culinary staples. Sadie’s is your run of the mill Tex-​Mex with extremely large portions. The food is served a few minutes after you order so I assume they have plates under the warmer ready to go. Again it is large enough for two people to share but cheap enough you can order separate plates and not feel bad about wasting food. Their salsa is good and the red and green chili sauce was tasty. The service was excellent. Overall an enjoyable experience.

Really good for lunch. The food is fresh and looks good. The only things is: they don’t serve rice. I like their take out best of all. You can call in your order and pick it up from the dedicated take out area (the eastern most portion of the parking lot).

Our server Will was great! Very delicious vittles!

A MUST for New Mexican style food! I always get the ground beef burrito & it’s HUGE, I get 2 meals out of it. The Papitas are so good. Margaritas are amazing, strong but SO good. Queso dip is yummy too. The salsa is addicting and super hot (for my taste). Wish their was a mild version of it.

The food was great and the salsa delicious. The waitress very nice and friendly. The sopapillas are amazingly delicious. Would recommend to anyone looking for a great Mexican restaurant.

It had been a while since my last trip to sadies. V maybe a decade. I remember good but crazy hot food. This trip we found good food but the temps have cooled off. Maybe that’s good.
We had the adovada enchiladas on blue corn tortillas. Wife says this was the best ever. We also had a chile relleno plate Christmas style. That was good, but not great. Kids had tacos and a cheese crisp, no complaints there.
Good service. Nice to see things haven’t changed too much, even if things aren’t as spicy.
Recommended for kids and adults. Spicy and not spicy eaters.

So this was our first time eating in Albuquerque. We came down for the day to shop and being from Alamo we weren’t sure of we’re to eat.
So we went back to Unilocal for the help.
Let’s just say this place has amazing service our waiter/​bartender Matt was fantastic he was extremely knowledgable on all the menu items and knew what size we should order.
We had a small let me repeat small plate of brisket nachos and were told to make it through those before ordering more. Matt was correct. My husband and I barely made it through the brisket nacho plate.
They were fantastic crisp chips amazing toppings.
For dessert as New Mexico tradition we had amazing soapillas they were a little crispy that was my only complaint but the honey was amazing thick real honey.
I recommend this place to anyone looking for some New Mexico flavor in there life.

Had a great time last night. Delicious food to go around. Had the chalupa with ground beef and a roy rogers.
Will be coming back.

Been there a couple of times and we loved the service each time! The waiters were awesome, gave us great choices and suggestions.
We loved the food and I am a huge fan of their red chilli. The fried ice cream was awesome too. One thing you have to be aware of though is that their portion sizes seemed huge to me! So u need to be ready to share/​take to go/​eat till u r really really full! (I usually end up doing the latter!)

I reviewed this once before. Choosing not to repeat the same complaints many others had. After being harassed by a family member. My review was later removed for not being specific enough. So I’m going to fix that now.
I’ve had to eat here a few times when family wanted to go. The service is consistantly poor. I feel like it is an inconvenience to the staff to be eating there. The resturant was never «packed» but the wait for a table (or a staff member to show up) is slow. The tables have that «perminent sticky» feeling, and the whole place could do with a deep scrub. The wait staff is lack luster. You have to ask for refils, you have to ask for your bill.
The food, though touted as an Albuquerque favorite, I would not recommend to someone from out of town. It is your typical, under seasoned «schlop on a plate.» I frankly don’t get what all the buzz is about. The pricing is reasonable and there are always leftovers. I might have returned if family made me. But between the harassment and the targeting of my last review, I’ll be very vocal to anyone I speak with, not to go here.

Not a big fan of Mexican food to begin with and this did not help. We have been to Sadies at a different local many times but felt like hitting this one since it was close to home. It started off good when the hostess seated just promptly and we were greeted by our waiter and took our drink orders. From there it headed south, no pun intended. When our meal finally arrived you could tell that the plates had been sitting under the hot lamp for quite some time as the beans were super dry and crusted over. Once our food arrived we hardly ever saw the waiter and asking for check it took a while to get. I think when we go to Sadie’s we will stick to our original spot and go to the one that has served us well with great food.

I love Sadies, but the one here on Academy is just awful. I ordered the chile relleno dinner with green on the side and a dinner salad with the house lemon and oil dressing. The avocado on the salad was half brown… why didn’t the server notice this??? The beans and potatoes were dry and crusty looking and the cheese on relleno was cold and already starting to firm back up!
I will never be back here, I will drive a little farther to go to the one on 4^th street. The 2 stars is because the jalapeño cucumber margarita was great.

I really like Sadie’s. The employees are always so friendly and ensure you’re having a great experience. We ordered the chicken quesadillas and a stuffed sopapilla with ground beef. The portions here are so huge so we ate buffet style! We finished about half of both before we admitted defeat. Great salsa and I like the setup of the restaurant — good layout. I’ll definitely be back!

I tried Sadie’s because of ABQ turned PHX Unilocaler Megan E.‘s glowing review!
It was Cinco de Mayo and I had just finished meeting with clients. Had some time before the flight home, and I wanted some New Mexi-​grub!
Walked in just after 1 and it wasn’t too busy.
Forgot the name of the gent who was my server that day, but he did an excellent job keeping my water glass full and running his section.
The housemade chips and salsa were excellent! Just the right texture and plenty spicy. Pretty much did a backflip when I saw it being sold in Frys and Wal-​Mart stores around metro Phoenix.
Had to be mindful not to fill up on those, because HOLY SMOKES the portions here are ridiculous.
Ordered the two relleno lunch plate Christmas style. So much food, beans, rice, papas … Was only able to down one of the rellenos and that pillow soft sopapilla.
The relleno was crispy and not eggy like I’ve come to expect from these kind of places.
My pro tip? Definitely order a la carte unless you have a ginormous appetite.
Have to knock a star off because I wasn’t able to detect any Green Chile on the rellenos, but overall, solid dining experience at Sadies.

My favorite place to eat. The food is amazing
The staff are incredible.
I always get chile rellenos. The sopapillas are always fresh, hot and delicious, the honey is local. I love you Sadies!!!

This was our first visit to Sadie’s at this location and we were impressed.
The quality of the food is high and is every bit as good as the original location.
Service was friendly and attentive with the added bonus of not being as crazy crowded as the original.

I was disappointed in this choice of Sadie’s. The front hostess table was so nice until they offered us a place to sit in the bar and then they quickly got «short» with me when I tried to explain that my parents are religious and don’t like sitting in bars. My parents were celebrating their 50^th Anniversary. When the manager told us that it would be 30 minutes longer to sit in a non-​bar table (even though when we entered 30 minutes earlier, she said it wouldn’t be an issue) we caved and sat in the bar area anyway.
It took us about an hour to get our food which was obviously sitting under a heat lamp for several minutes because the plates were so hot! I suggested to my cousin that she get a taco because Sadie’s makes their own taco shells which are normally delicious. Well, her taco shell was complete mush by the time we were served. They also served my 19 month old son a hot plate. Why would you send a hot plate out to a baby???
The chile was good to me but to my out of town cousins, it was too hot and they couldn’t even eat their food. A warning from the wait staff should be given. Our server also tried to take our plates away before we were finished and before we ate our sopapillas. I suggest they tell their servers to let people eat their sopapillas before they take plates so we don’t get honey everywhere.
Anyway, I’ve had nothing but great experiences at the Sadie’s on 4^th but I don’t think I’ll be back to the one on Academy. It pales in comparison, and I’m bummed that we didn’t make the longer drive for my cousins.

Well when one wants the mother of all nachos, (MOAN) Sadies is hard to top.
We ordered a large nachos half and half– they brought a mountain of nachos– a huge plate to be sure.
The staff were great! They offered consistent service and had a fantastic attitude!
The nachos came hot with melted cheddar as opposed to the nacho cheese like sauce that can hijack a tortilla chip.
Topped with a generous amount of sour cream, and layered with the ingredients dispersed evenly through the chips, the execution was solid.
That said we opted for shredded beef and chicken. They were both slightly on the dry side.
The really nice detail was the use of fresh jalapeños that added the right amount of spice to the light and crunchy chips.
I would order this again, but be warned– the large is enough for 4 easily!

I’m told the COMPLIMENTARY salsa is homemade, that garners a star all its own. Just to think someone somewhere is still fixing this up in a granny kitchen, is awesome. But don’t take it lightly, because when they say it’s hot, then actually mean hot like there’s a «mini hell’s fire» going on in your mouth that only a cessation from eating it will cool your mouth. Bad thing is, it has some addictive properties, because I couldn’t stop eating.
The food portions are GINORMOUS, I mean colossal, sharable, take home for left-​overs size. I find the wait staff to be a little lacking; it took 10 minutes for me to get some water & salsa. When they finally came, it was 2 minors, 1 in training & 1 trainer, neither of which could serve alcohol; so here goes another 5 minute wait for someone who could serve an adult beverage, phew!!!
Finally got my margarita & tasty it was… YummmmmmY!!!
Sopapillas to finish off the meal, «to go» please ma’am & I was outta there.
I found the interior to be a little dated, maybe because this is the original location or so I’m told. The parking lot is expansive, so no issues there.
Have fun, but be advised there may be a wait for a qualified server to get you some booze.