Guicho’s Authentic Mexican Food Restaurant – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)
There have been Mexican restaurants in the Land of Enchantment for as long as there have been restaurants. While the distinction between Mexican restaurants and New Mexican restaurants has become less obfuscated over time, there is still a tendency among many casual diners to think “a Mexican restaurant is a Mexican restaurant.” That errant thinking is probably due to the preponderance on this side of the border of Mexican restaurants from the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. The cuisine of Chihuahua is characterized by its simplicity, reflecting the resilience of its people, settlers of a land steeped with rugged terrain, craggy mountains and rough lands in which great temperature variations exist between scalding heat and almost freezing cold. Dehydrated chile is a…