Fat Squirrel Pub & Grill – Rio Rancho, New Mexico (CLOSED)
The quaint names given to English pubs are sometimes nearly as interesting as the reasons for which those names were…
Ice Cream Palace and Hot Dog World – Rio Rancho, New Mexico (CLOSED)
Nay-sayers, those nattering nabobs of negativism, have always had it in for hot dogs. First they plied us with horror…
Blue Grasshopper Brew Pub – Rio Rancho, New Mexico (CLOSED)
If you’ve ever wondered why the term “pink elephants” has long been recognized as a euphemism for a drunken hallucination,…
NM Rodeo Burgers – Rio Rancho, New Mexico (CLOSED)
“Traveling with the rodeo It’s the only life I’ll ever know I started in New Mexico Must have been a…
Ahh! Sushi – Rio Rancho, New Mexico (CLOSED: 2015)
The year was 1997. Recently thawed from a thirty year cryogenic state, Dr. Evil addressed the United Nations about his…
Timbuctu Bistro – Rio Rancho, New Mexico (CLOSED)
Growing up in bucolic Peñasco back when fires were still started by rubbing two sticks together and mastodons roamed the…
Viet Rice – Rio Rancho, New Mexico
In Vietnamese, “an com”‘ translates as “eating rice,” but it’s a phrase that more accurately implies the act of partaking…
Weck’s – Rio Rancho, New Mexico
Arguably the very best programming all year long on KNME, Albuquerque’s Public Broadcasting Station (PBS) comes during its four annual…
Hot Tamales – Rio Rancho, New Mexico
While the word tamale is most certainly Spanish, its derivation is from the Nahuatl word tamalli. Tamallis were developed as…
Rocco’s Pizzeria – Rio Rancho, New Mexico (CLOSED)
In an age of sensory bombardment, we all occasionally experience a phenomenon known as an “earworm.” Earworm is a literal…
Outlook Cafe – Rio Rancho, New Mexico (CLOSED)
Some would argue that the city of Rio Rancho was spawned as a dubious marketing ploy designed to bilk gullible…
Sevyn’s Cafe – Rio Rancho, New Mexico (CLOSED)
During a 1996 episode of Seinfeld, George Costanza, a self-proclaimed “short, balding, unattractive man” made the mistake of telling his…
Frattellis – Rio Rancho, New Mexico
In New York City, pizza by the slice is as ubiquitous as towering skyscrapers. Many of the city’s nearly 3,000…
Aldo’s NY Pizzeria – Rio Rancho, New Mexico
Being within walking distance of my place of employment makes this old fashioned pizzeria an easy choice while excellent pizza…
The Black Olive Wine Bar & Grill – Rio Rancho, New Mexico (CLOSED)
Perhaps in time, the Albuquerque-Rio Rancho metropolitan statistical area will be thought of in much the same vein as America’s…