Red Rock Deli – Albuquerque, New Mexico
America may be a multicultural melting pot, but thriving within its most populous metropolises are ethnic neighborhoods–pockets of diversity residing …
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Bocadillos Slow Roasted: A Sandwich Shop – Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Food Network’s television cameras just love Chef Marie Yniguez who’s been showcased on not one, not two, not even …
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Indigo Crow Cafe – Corrales, New Mexico
Now I lay myself down to sleep I pray oh lord my soul to keep Cause if I should die …
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Albuquerque / Breakfast / Food Network Eats New Mexico / New Mexican / Rated 23 / Travel Channel Eats New Mexico
Cecilia’s Cafe – Albuquerque, New Mexico
Pasqual Baylon’s devotion to the Mass and the Holy Eucharist was so fervent that even when assigned kitchen duty, he …
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Saigon Restaurant – Albuquerque, New Mexico
According to some stereotypes, when you eat Chinese food, you’ll be hungry an hour later. That stereotype is known …
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Barbecue / Burgers / Dog Friendly / New Mexico / New Mexico Green Chile Cheeseburger Trail: 2009 / New Mexico Green Chile Cheeseburger Trail: 2011 / Rated 23
Sugar’s BBQ & Burgers – Embudo, New Mexico
The winding highway meandering along the murky Rio Grande through Embudo is among the most scenic in the state, particularly …
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Philly Steaks – Albuquerque, New Mexico
“I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we’re Philly.” ~Lisa Scottoline New York Times Best-Selling Author …
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Pho Linh Vietnamese Grill – Albuquerque, New Mexico
You always remember your first time…and if it’s good, it may set the standard by which you’ll forever measure every …
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El Patio de Albuquerque – Albuquerque, New Mexico
For more than a quarter century, award-winning journalist Charles Kuralt had the type of job any aspiring sojourner would envy. …
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Big D’s Downtown Dive – Roswell, New Mexico
During a March, 2012 trip to Roswell, New Mexico President Barack Obama made the following opening remarks to his speech. …
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Stack House BBQ – Rio Rancho, New Mexico (CLOSED)
One of my Psychology professors cautioned students about the danger of “amateur diagnosis,” the practice of assigning specific psychoses and …
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Philly’s N Fries – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED: May 18, 2018)
Over the years, my Kim and I have had the privilege and honor of getting to know and love many …
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Seared – Albuquerque, New Mexico
While you might not be able to judge a book by its cover, sometimes a book title will resonate deeply …
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Counter Culture Cafe – Santa Fe, New Mexico
Counterculture. Growing up in rural Taos County four decades ago, I don’t know how many of us understood that the …
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Oak Tree Cafe – Albuquerque, New Mexico
This isn’t Burger King! You can’t have it your way. You get it our way or you don’t get it …
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May Cafe – Albuquerque, New Mexico
There are perhaps thousands of examples throughout the Duke City of immigrants whose path to the American dream involved rising …
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IKrave Cafe – Albuquerque, New Mexico
Please say it isn’t so! According to Nations Restaurant News, a highly respected trade publication “a new crop of restaurant …
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Pana’s Cafe – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)
The term “red or green” has connotations beyond New Mexico’s sacrosanct chile. For restaurateurs across the Duke City, red or …
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Latitude 33 – Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
“Of all places in the country where you could have opened a restaurant, why Truth or Consequences, New Mexico?” You …
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Burgers / New Mexico / New Mexico Culinary Treasures Trail / New Mexico Green Chile Cheeseburger Trail: 2009 / New Mexico Green Chile Cheeseburger Trail: 2011 / Rated 23 / San Antonio / Travel Channel Eats New Mexico
The Owl Cafe & Bar – San Antonio, New Mexico
7 March 2017: Over the past five years, the Owl Cafe in San Antonio, New Mexico has been the most …
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Papa Felipe’s Mexican Restaurant – Albuquerque, New Mexico
In 2009, James Beard Award-winning food journalists Jane and Michael Stern published a terrific tome entitled 500 Things to Eat …
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Vick’s Vittles Country Restaurant – Albuquerque, New Mexico
Possum shanks; pickled hog jowls; goat tripe; stewed squirrel; ham hocks and turnip greens; gizzards smothered in gristle; smoked crawdads. …
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Chumlys Southwestern – Albuquerque, New Mexico
The old Jewish proverb “worries go down better with soup than without” may just be the most understated aphorism about …
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Toro Burger – Rio Rancho, New Mexico (CLOSED)
While watching a “sanitized for television” version of the audacious satirical comedy Blazing Saddles, my precocious six-year-old niece asked several …
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Saigon 2 Restaurant – Rio Rancho, New Mexico
In Chinese and Vietnamese cultures, numerology is very important. If you’ve traveled extensively, you may have wondered why the term …
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ChocGlitz & Cream – Albuquerque, New Mexico
To whom should you turn when you want a recommendation you can trust for great ice cream? Your natural inclination …
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Shake Foundation – Santa Fe, New Mexico
If it seems there’s a glut of restaurants brandishing a much-hyped and often self-glossed as “best” version of New Mexico’s …
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Plaza Cafe Southside – Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe’s oldest restaurant (circa 1918), the Plaza Cafe is so popular that long waits to be seated are commonplace. …
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Piatanzi – Albuquerque, New Mexico
“Italy is an illusion, indeed, a mirage, the stuff of wishes.” ~Mario Luzi In the 1996 motion picture Big Night, …
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Poki Poki Cevicheria – Albuquerque, New. Mexico
Having settled comfortably into middle age, my favorite participatory sports of basketball and tennis have been replaced by more sedentary, …
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Le Troquet Bistro – Albuquerque, New Mexico
Pope Gregory the Great was a prolific writer canonized as a saint and recognized as a “doctor of the church.” …
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Albuquerque / Closed in 2017 / Gone But Not Forgotten / New Mexico / Rated 23 / Soul Food / Southern
Bucketheadz – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)
“I think it’s easy to dismiss Southern food as nothing but grease and grits. I happen to like both grease …
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Perea’s Tijuana Bar & Restaurant – Corrales, New Mexico
The curious appellation “Tijuana Bar” dates back to the 1920s when the 18th amendment to the Constitution established Prohibition in …
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Magokoro Japanese Restaurant – Albuquerque, New Mexico
Emeril Lagasse, the jovial master of the culinary catchphrase, has been known to exhort his studio audience to “feel the …
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La Quiche Parisienne Bistro – Albuquerque, New Mexican
Who can ever forget Fred the Baker, the haggard, perpetually exhausted Dunkin Donuts baker and his iconic lament, “time to …
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Chopstix – Albuquerque, New Mexico
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent …
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