Michael B.
Yelp
Please note that this review is for a sandwich, not the pizza or pub aspects of Sabino's.
I was jonesing for a meatball sub the other weekend and Yelp suggested a new place open near me: Sabino's. This is located in a shopping center directly off of 183, north of Bryson Hills Trail. This place reminds me of an old school pizza pub you can take the team to after baseball practice, though it is on the loud side.
The pizza looks good but I can't base the review on it. Meatball sub is decent. Not dry, good if salty marinara sauce. They use the wrong sort of bread for this kind of sandwich, though. It's a rather soft, distractingly sweet roll that can sog up quickly if they put on too much sauce. (Mine was fine this time, though.)
Also, they butter the bread on both sides before adding the meatballs and sauce. That's just plain weird, and the butter's another distracting note. Still, a solid sandwich and I'll be back to try the pizza to update this review in the future.
This place scores a 3 out of 5 on the 'CTJ Scale', as noted below.
5 out of 5 stars: Come-to-Jesus good. Would be OK passing away after finishing a plate here.
4 out of 5 stars: Come-to-Mary good. Would be OK being seen eating here by Mother Mary.
3 out of 5 stars: Come-to-Joseph good. Would be OK having a beer here with Jesus' Dad.
2 out of 5 stars: Come-to-the-Apostles good. Meh. Wouldn't have my last supper here.
1 out of 5 stars: Come-to-Nobody good. I wouldn't have my penultimate supper here, either.