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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 / 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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Food Truck / Mexican / New Mexico / Santa Fe

Master Food Truck – Santa Fe, New Mexico

October 6, 2020October 5, 2020 - 4 Comments.

Drive eastward on Airport Road in Santa Fe toward Cerrillos and you just might wonder if you accidentally traipsed into the Twilight Zone and somehow found yourself in Los Angeles.  At the very least, you …

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Breakfast / Cajun / Corrales / Dog Friendly / New Mexico

C3’s Bistro – Corrales, New Mexico

September 30, 2020October 1, 2020 - 26 Comments.

A case could be made that “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” the name of a 1977 hit by Santa Esmeralda, could well be a lament about New Mexican cuisine (in addition to being the background …

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Dog Friendly / Mexican / New Mexico / Rio Rancho

Elotes Del Rancho – Rio Rancho, New Mexico

September 25, 2020January 23, 2021 - 12 Comments.

“Now you’re just being uppity.”  That’s my Kim putting me in my place the second I begin to crow haughtily about some highbrow or nouveau way to prepare something ordinary.  Tandoori salmon pizza…that’s so me.  …

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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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Breakfast / Mexican / New Mexico / Rio Rancho

Federico’s Mexican Food – Rio Rancho, New Mexico

September 16, 2020September 29, 2020 - 7 Comments.

in February, 2020, Chef’s Pencil crunched the numbers of Google searches  for ethnic cuisines to determine the most popular ethnic cuisines in America. The two most popular ethnic cuisines were deemed to be Mexican and …

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Dog Friendly / Italian / New Mexico / Pizza

FORGHEDABOUDIT SOUTHWEST ITALIAN – Las Cruces, New Mexico

September 13, 2020September 19, 2020 - 22 Comments.

Genius, it’s oft been said, is ninety-nine-percent perspiration and one-percent inspiration.  Apply that equation to Bob Yacone and you’d be selling him far short.  So would the cliche “giving one-hundred-percent.”  Add a few more hundred …

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Burgers / Dog Friendly / New Mexico

Arrey Cafe – Arrey, New Mexico

September 10, 2020September 12, 2020 - 6 Comments.

About halfway between Truth or Consequences and Hatch on I-25, you may have espied a billboard audaciously proclaiming “world’s finest green chile cheeseburger.”  That billboard has always piqued my curiosity and prompted such questions as …

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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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Dog Friendly / Mexican / New Mexico / Rio Rancho

Cazuela’s Mexican Grill – Rio Rancho, New Mexico

September 4, 2020October 9, 2020 - 15 Comments.

Here’s an interesting bit of Jeopardy level trivia which you might contemplate the next time you dine at this Rio Rancho spot: In the Spanish golden age, a “cazuela” was the gallery located above the …

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Donuts / Santa Fe

Whoo’s Donuts – Santa Fe, New Mexico

August 29, 2020September 1, 2020 - 3 Comments.

When my corporate group had its employees, a high-performing contingent of information technology professionals, take a strengths assessment, the results were contrary to the stereotypes often painted about techno-geeks. None of us, for example, were …

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Food Truck / Mexican / New Mexico / Tacos

Birrieria Y Tacos Alex Tijuana Style – Albuquerque, New Mexico

August 23, 2020September 1, 2020 - 4 Comments.

If you’ve noticed an almost inordinate number of recent visits on this blog to Mexican restaurants, credit much of that to Pati Jinich, ebullient host of the James Beard Award-winning and Emmy nominated PBS series …

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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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Food Truck / New Mexican / New Mexico

Stuffed Lust Sopaipilla Company – Bernalillo, New Mexico

August 14, 2020August 23, 2020 - 26 Comments.

“Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.” ~Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All “Why,” my Kim wondered aloud “would a food truck call itself Sopaipilla Lust.” Obviously reflecting on …

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American / Bernalillo / Brewery-Pub / Burgers / Dog Friendly / New Mexico

Bosque North Brewery & Taproom – Bernalillo, New Mexico

August 12, 2020August 14, 2020 - 17 Comments.

“Are you going to explain how to pronounce “bosque?,” my Kim asked when she espied me working on this review.  Though her Spanish vocabulary is rather limited, she pronounces the five or six hundred Spanish …

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Albuquerque / Asian / Japanese / New Mexico / Ramen

Oni Noodles – Albuquerque, New Mexico

August 7, 2020August 9, 2020 - 5 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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Bar & Grill / New Mexico / Rio Rancho

O’Hare’s Grille & Pub – Rio Rancho, New Mexico

August 6, 2020August 8, 2020 - 3 Comments.

Céad míle fáilte, an Irish greeting meaning “a hundred thousand welcomes” preempts any menu listings at O’Hare’s Grille & Pub. At times, especially during happy hour and before Covid, it seemed a hundred thousand patrons …

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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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Bar & Grill / Dog Friendly / New Mexico / New Mexico Green Chile Cheeseburger Trail: 2009 / Pizza / Rio Rancho

Turtle Mountain Brewing Company – Rio Rancho, New Mexico

July 14, 2020July 16, 2020 - 14 Comments.

The Tewa name “Oku Pin” which translates in English to “Turtle Mountain” has three meanings of significance to the people of Okay Owingeh, one of New Mexico’s great Tewa speaking Northern New Mexico Pueblos. “Oku …

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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 - 20 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 / Closed in 2020 / Dog Friendly / Gone But Not Forgotten / Rated 23 / Seafood

Flamez Bistro – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)

July 3, 2020February 10, 2021 - 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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Barbecue / Breakfast / Dog Friendly / Food Network Eats New Mexico / New Mexico / Santa Fe

The Cowgirl BBQ – Santa Fe, New Mexico

June 26, 2020June 28, 2020 - 16 Comments.

Cowgirl” is an attitude really. A pioneer spirit, a special American brand of courage. The cowgirl faces life head-on, lives by her own lights, and makes no excuses. Cowgirls take stands; they speak up. They …

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