Marble Brewery – Albuquerque, New Mexico
During a recent visit to The Grill restaurant on Menaul, my friend and fellow culinary sensuist Larry McGoldrick received a very warm greeting from proprietor Phil Chavez who mistook Larry for me (not that Phil wouldn’t otherwise have welcomed Larry warmly as he does all his guests). My good-natured friend didn’t return Phil’s warm welcome with a frosty retort as some people might have done. It was, after all, an honest case of mistaken identity. Larry and I are practically doppelgangers for one another–at least in terms of our passion for mom-and-pop restaurants throughout the Land of Enchantment. In a karmic example of “turnabout is fair play,” my Kim and I were looking for a downtown area restaurant to visit…