Category: Salvadoran

El Papaturro Restaurant – Los Ranchos De Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoLos Ranchos de Albuquerque, New Mexico, Salvadoran

Driving north on Fourth one Sunday afternoon, my sharp-eyed Kim espied a new eatery with the curious name El Papaturro. Our first inclination was that the Pappas Restaurants group had made another incursion into the Land of Enchantment. It seemed to make sense considering the Pappas Restaurant Group, a family-owned and operated restaurant company based out of Houston, is the parent restaurant of Pappadeaux which has had a presence in Albuquerque since 2004. Pappadeux, a seafood restaurant with Cajun leanings,…

Tune-up Café – Santa Fe, New Mexico

Gil GardunoBreakfast, Brunch, Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives, Food Network Eats New Mexico, Mexican, New Mexico, Salvadoran, Santa Fe

Dave Who? From 1981 until its closing in 2008, the converted residence at 1115 Hickox Street was the home of Dave’s Not Here, a quaint and quirky neighborhood favorite loyalist locals described as “unforgettable.” Perhaps “memorable” would have been more appropriate, because as the Eagles reminded us in their 1976 hit song New Kid In Town, “they will never forget you ‘til somebody new comes along.” That somebody new…the new kid in town… the usurper who made many of us…

Pupuseria Y Restaurante Salvadoreño – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoAlbuquerque, Salvadoran

In the 1980s, several hundred thousand Salvadorans fled their civil war ravaged nation (courtesy, many would say of America’s attempting to turn El Salvador into the Western hemisphere’s version of Vietnam).  Many migrated to large metropolitan areas in the United States where their culture has quietly flourished.  Those immigrants introduced and hooked Californians on their national snack, a modest street food called the pupusa.  If you’ve never had a pupusa, there’s a chance you may have learned of them on the…