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Albuquerque / Italian / New Mexico

M’Tucci’s Twenty-Five – Albuquerque, New Mexico

January 23, 2021January 25, 2021 - 8 Comments.

“The best ingredient I discovered in America was ‘freedom.’ The freedom to experiment in the kitchen and the freedom to be open to those experiments in the dining room.” ~Massimo Bottura, Osteria Francescana Chef and …

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Albuquerque / Ghost Kitchen / Italian / New Mexico / Rio Rancho

Urbano Pasta Kitchen – Albuquerque, New Mexico

January 18, 2021January 22, 2021 - 6 Comments.

“To break bread together,” a phrase as old as the Bible, captures the power of a meal to forge relationships, bury anger, provoke laughter.” ~The Joy of Food From National Geographic Sharing a meal creates …

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Albuquerque / American / Dog Friendly / Indian / New Mexico

Marigold Cafe – Albuquerque, New Mexico

January 13, 2021January 16, 2021 - 7 Comments.

It’s not all parents who can give birth to two children in a six week period, but that’s precisely what Harrison and Violet did.  In early October, 2019, they welcomed into the world a beautiful …

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Albuquerque / Asian / Chinese / New Mexico

Dragon House – Albuquerque, New Mexico

January 9, 2021January 13, 2021 - 2 Comments.

Admit it–every time you dine at a Chinese restaurant, you peruse the Chinese Zodiac paper placemats at your table describing the characteristics of people based on their birth year. Every new year of the lunar …

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Albuquerque / New Mexico / Rated 23 / Southern

Ms. Gennie’s House of Chicken – Albuquerque, New Mexico

January 6, 2021January 10, 2021 - 9 Comments.

My Air Force friend and colleague Al Garcia once shared one of those amusing anecdotes that will leave your head shaking in disbelief even as you’re practically rolling on the floor with laughter.  According to …

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Albuquerque / Mariscos / Mexican / New Mexico / Tacos

Nena’s Food – Albuquerque, New Mexico

January 2, 2021January 22, 2021 - 2 Comments.

“The restaurant business, as I well know, ain’t no picnic. And in Mexico City, it’s particularly rough.” ~Anthony Bourdain With an urban area population of almost 22-million over a broad expanse of 573 square miles, …

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Albuquerque / Asian / Fusion / Hawaiian / Latin American / New Mexico / Rated 23

Poki Poki Cevicheria – Albuquerque, New. Mexico

December 12, 2020December 16, 2020 - 23 Comments.

Having settled comfortably into middle age (perpetually 39-years old), my favorite participatory sports of basketball and tennis have been replaced by more sedentary, safe and slothful pursuits. Instead of getting my shot rejected (almost as …

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Albuquerque / Asian / New Mexico

Kamikaze Kitchen – Albuquerque, New Mexico

December 5, 2020December 12, 2020 - 4 Comments.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Reese’s Peanut Butter cups commercials consisted of a series of vignettes. Each vignette depicted the collision of two daydreamers–one eating peanut butter and the other eating chocolate. The peanut butter …

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Albuquerque / Mariscos / Mexican / New Mexico / Tacos

The Whole Enchilada – Albuquerque, New Mexico

November 28, 2020December 12, 2020 - 4 Comments.

Perhaps because I was away from the Land of Enchantment for much of my Air Force career, one of my favorite bloggers has long been Lisa Fain, the James Beard award-winning “Homesick Texan.”   Like …

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Albuquerque / Hot Dogs / New Mexico / Pizza / Sandwich

AK Pizza – Albuquerque, New Mexico

November 18, 2020November 18, 2020 - 14 Comments.

“I hate it. I think it’s an abomination. There are so many awesome things here, I don’t know why that should be featured. It’s leading with your weakness. So much other great stuff.” ~Anthony Bourdain …

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Albuquerque / New Mexico / Vietnamese

Saigon City – Albuquerque, New Mexico

November 7, 2020November 12, 2020 - 4 Comments.

My brother in blogging Ryan Cook describes his first day in Vietnam: “So, my first stop in Vietnam was the capital, Hanoi. My honest first impressions… what the hell have I let myself in for. …

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Albuquerque / Dog Friendly / New Mexico / Sandwich / Tacos

Street Food Sensations – Albuquerque, New Mexico

November 6, 2020November 12, 2020 - 1 Comment

Restaurant Insider, which touts itself as “your source for restaurant news, trends, information, tools and conversation” has observed that one of the catalysts most instrumental in driving a changing culinary landscape are Generation Z (anyone …

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Albuquerque / Chicken / Food Truck / New Mexico

Wing It Up – Albuquerque, New Mexico

November 1, 2020November 9, 2020 - 7 Comments.

Bizarre Foods host Andrew Zimmern has nothing on my friend Ralph Guariglio. Zimmern who claims to love such “exotic cuisine” as fermented walrus anus probably wouldn’t touch some of the…er, interesting foods Ralph enjoyed during …

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Albuquerque / Mexican

Taco Cabana – Albuquerque, New Mexico

October 30, 2020November 1, 2020 - 9 Comments.

In 1972, English author Diana Kennedy, the doyenne of Mexican cuisine, penned The Cuisines of Mexico, a Mexican cookbook in which she described Texas’s Mexican food as “inauthentic,” coining the term “Tex-Mex.”  Kennedy essentially drew …

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Albuquerque / Dog Friendly / Mexican / New Mexico / Tacos

Duke City Taco – Albuquerque, New Mexico

October 22, 2020October 28, 2020 - 20 Comments.

Observer: You’ve said that you can do anything with a taco, except put ketchup on it? Danny Trejo: That’s it! [Laughs]. Observer: Do people try to do that? Danny Trejo: Yeah, some people think that …

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Albuquerque / Dog Friendly / Mariscos / Mexican / New Mexico

Sharky’s Fish and Shrimp – Albuquerque, New Mexico

October 18, 2020October 18, 2020 - 13 Comments.

Never mind your tired, your poor or even your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Carlos Zazveta, the effusive proprietor of Sharky’s Fish & Seafood told us to bring our dogs, our cows and our …

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Albuquerque / Barbecue / Food Truck / New Mexico

Rev’s BBQ – Albuquerque, New Mexico

October 17, 2020October 31, 2020 - 2 Comments.

You might think that the food truck industry is an ultra-competitive dog-eat-dog business in which purveyors aren’t very gracious when discussing fellow food truck operators. Considering how they often jockey for a limited number of …

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Albuquerque / Barbecue / Food Truck / New Mexico / Rated 24

Mighty Mike’s Meats – Albuquerque, New Mexico

October 15, 2020October 15, 2020 - 7 Comments.

Thank you, Mighty Mike! Thank you for restoring our faith in barbecue just one day after my Kim declared “I don’t want to have barbecue for a long time.”  Readers might find it hard to …

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Albuquerque / American / Breakfast / Brunch / Dog Friendly

Cafe Lush – Albuquerque, New Mexico

October 7, 2020October 15, 2020 - 10 Comments.

Urban Dictionary, that oft hilarious, veritable cornucopia of slang, jargon and streetwise lingo, defines “lush” as “someone who drinks a lot.” (Actually, there are several pages of similar definitions for “lush” in the “peoples’ dictionary,” …

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Albuquerque / Mexican / New Mexico

La Guelaguetza – Albuquerque, New Mexico

September 24, 2020September 26, 2020 - 15 Comments.

“I am tenacious. And I love to eat.  I go into the field and see some delectable things they’re cooking, wild plants perhaps, and think, ‘Oh my God, I have to write about this.’ I …

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Albuquerque / Food Truck / Indian / New Mexico

Tikka Spice Food Truck – Albuquerque, New Mexico

September 19, 2020October 1, 2020 - 4 Comments.

“Fly once more like you did before, Sing a new song chicken tikka!” ~Chiquitita Misheard Lyrics You might think by virtue of my name and then gangling gait, school mates at St. Anthony’s in Penasco …

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Albuquerque / Chinese / Dog Friendly / New Mexico

Noodle Works – Albuquerque, New Mexico

September 5, 2020September 28, 2020 - 1 Comment

“To witness the birth of a noodle is a glorious thing. I have listened, spellbound, as an 85-year-old noodle chef in Beijing told me why the act of making noodles helped him make sense of …

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Albuquerque / Dog Friendly / National Chain / New Mexico / Seafood

Storming Crab – Albuquerque, New Mexico

September 5, 2020September 12, 2020 - 19 Comments.

Archaeologists believe there’s a scientific explanation for contemporary  humankind’s  predilection for seaside vacations and trips to the beach.  Evidence–stone tools used to cut through animal flesh–seems to support the theory that the first humans migrated …

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Albuquerque / Mexican / Middle Eastern / New Mexico / Tacos

URBAN COCINA – Albuquerque, New Mexico

August 22, 2020September 14, 2020 - Leave a Comment

if you believe the idea for delivery food started with Domino’s Pizza and its promise of 30-minute delivery or free, you’d be sadly mistaken.  Nor did take-out originate with Chinese restaurants in California and their …

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Albuquerque / Food Truck / Mexican / New Mexico / Tacos

Changos – Albuquerque, New Mexico

August 16, 2020August 23, 2020 - 2 Comments.

Darn that Google! Even though I used very specific Boolean operands to target my search for “Changos” in “Albuquerque,” Google returned results for Changos in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico. It wasn’t until studying the photos for …

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Albuquerque / Asian / Japanese / New Mexico / Ramen

Oni Noodles – Albuquerque, New Mexico

August 7, 2020August 9, 2020 - 4 Comments.

In retrospect, the monsters and bogeymen who frightened impressionable children of my generation were pretty lame. Perhaps the most lame of them all was Frankenstein, a lumbering behemoth who walked around with his arms outstretched …

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Albuquerque / Chocolate / Closed in 2020 / Gone But Not Forgotten / New Mexico / Specialty

Cocoa Flora – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)

July 27, 2020November 18, 2020 - 3 Comments.

In a 1995 episode of Seinfeld fittingly titled “The Switch” Jerry asked his devious friend George Costanza how he could switch from dating Sandy, a dour woman who didn’t laugh to dating her roommate Laura, …

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Albuquerque / New Mexico / Vietnamese

T & T Gas N Mart – Albuquerque, New Mexico

July 24, 2020July 28, 2020 - Leave a Comment

“Eat here and get gas.”  Even in more naive and innocent times, the connotation of that double-entendre wasn’t lost on adults or children, all of whom giggled when they espied the classic sign on the …

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Albuquerque / Hawaiian / New Mexico

Kimo’s Hawaiian BBQ – Albuquerque, New Mexico

July 21, 2020August 4, 2020 - 3 Comments.

For over a quarter century, the most popular section in New Mexico Magazine (the nation’s oldest state magazine, by the way) has been a humorous column entitled “One of Our Fifty is Missing.” The column …

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Albuquerque / Dog Friendly / Mexican / New Mexico

Guaca Guaca Tacos & Beer – Albuquerque, New Mexico

July 18, 2020July 19, 2020 - 2 Comments.

What culinary voluptuaries consider exotic and delicious, timorous eaters might find distasteful and even nauseating. With M.F.K Fisher as their muse, culinary voluptuaries–the truly adventurous diners among us–don’t let themselves be drawn into a vortex …

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Albuquerque / Brunch / Dog Friendly / Fine Dining

Vintage 423 – Albuquerque, New Mexico

July 12, 2020July 18, 2020 - 15 Comments.

My friend Bill Resnik, a professional stand-up comedian for more than two decades, performs a bit in which he “translates” Spanish terms for linguistically challenged audiences.  “Paseo del Norte,” for example, translates to “Paseo of …

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Albuquerque / Dog Friendly / Indian / New Mexico / Rated 24

Curry Leaf – Albuquerque, New Mexico

July 11, 2020July 13, 2020 - 19 Comments.

Leonard: Is it racist that I took you to an Indian restaurant? Priya: It’s okay, I like Indian food. Leonard: Or as you probably call it back home, food. ~Big Bang Theory (Season Four, Episode …

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Albuquerque / Dog Friendly / Donuts / New Mexico

Bristol Doughnut Co. – Albuquerque, New Mexico

July 11, 2020July 13, 2020 - 3 Comments.

While most people speak with fond nostalgia about their first ride on a double-decker bus, the memories of our inaugural trip are tinged with horror that traumatizes us to this day. As with most visitors …

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Albuquerque / New Mexican / New Mexico

Stufys – Albuquerque, New Mexico

July 8, 2020July 11, 2020 - 4 Comments.

In a 2015 episode of Food Network Star competition, Lenny “The Cowboy Chef” McNab committed a serious culinary faux pas that brought about a serious rebuke from one of the celebrity judges.  During the “Cutthroat …

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Albuquerque / Burgers / Dog Friendly / Rated 23 / Seafood

Flamez Bistro – Albuquerque, New Mexico

July 3, 2020July 4, 2020 - 7 Comments.

Hold the pickles Hold the lettuce Special orders don’t upset us All we ask is that you let us serve it your way In 1974, Burger King introduced its most successful and long-standing advertising campaign, …

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Albuquerque / Barbecue / Food Truck / New Mexico

Abq Grill n Que – Albuquerque, New Mexico

June 7, 2020October 6, 2020 - 1 Comment

6 October 2020: From the Abq Grill n Que Facebook page – These unique times have forced us to make the very difficult decision to shut down our operations for the foreseeable future. We did …

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