Dandy Burger – Española, New Mexico
Back in my halcyon youth as a multi-sport athlete at Peñasco High School (when I could consume half a million calories a meal at no detriment to my then svelte physique), Dandy Burger in beautiful …
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El Parasol – Española, New Mexico
If you were in a hurry, driving through Española on a hot summer day in the early 1980s might have raised the diastolic level (the lower number) of your blood pressure to the level of …
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JoAnn’s Ranch O Casados Restaurant – Española, New Mexico
Shortly after it was announced that Mary & Tito’s was selected as a 2010 recipient of the James Beard Foundation’s “Americas Classic” award, the brilliant Albuquerque Journal columnist Leslie Linthicum wrote a gilt-edged tribute to …
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Angelina’s Restaurant – Espanola, New Mexico
“I get no respect.” Comedian Rodney Dangerfield parlayed that catch-phrase into a lengthy and lucrative career. With his uniquely self-deprecating sense of humor, Rodney invariably made himself the butt of his own brilliant one-liners: “I …
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Stop And Eat Drive In – Española, New Mexico
Stop And Eat–Although it seems this 50s style drive-in has always been at its Paseo De Oñate location, it hadn’t yet opened in 1598 when don Juan de Oñate led his expedition of Spanish colonists …
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Mariscos La Playa – Espanola, New Mexico
Even though it seems most women celebrate it every year in perpetuity, a woman’s 29th birthday actually occurs only once. On my mom’s umpteenth 29th birthday we wanted everything to be perfect so we took …
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Matilda’s Restaurant – Espanola, New Mexico (CLOSED)
In Asi Es Nuevo Mexico, the official state song of New Mexico, former Lieutenant Governor Roberto Mondragon extols in a rich timbre, the incomparably beauteous flowers of The Land of Enchantment–its women. When the verse …
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El Paragua – Española, New Mexico
“If small businesses are the backbone of American commerce, then the good old-fashioned lemonade stand is the spinal cord.” That sagacious metaphor (for which I unfortunately cannot take credit) is an apt description for how …
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