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New Mexico’s Green Chile Cheeseburger Trail not only celebrates one of the Land of Enchantment’s most iconic foods, it showcases the restaurants, drive-ins, diners, dives, joints, cafes, roadside stands and bowling alleys which prepare our ubiquitous, incomparable green chile cheeseburger. To New Mexicans, there is nothing as thoroughly soul-satisfying and…

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Rev’s BBQ – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoMay 14, 2022May 15, 2022

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 spaces in heavily trafficked events and vie for consumer attention and dollars, you would think…

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Blu Pig BBQ & Blues – Moab, Utah

Gil GardunoAugust 28, 2021October 2, 2021

For many of us barbecue is a noun as in “a social gathering at which barbecued food is eaten.” For others it’s a verb (to roast or smoke food over wood using smoke at low temperatures over a long cooking time). For the most passionate and devoted, barbecue is a…

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Nomad’s BBQ – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoJune 5, 2021April 23, 2022

As a spindly teenager who hadn’t yet metamorphosed into my (then) scrawny 6’1″ stature, I had grand delusions of someday playing basketball for the University of New Mexico (UNM) Lobos. There could be no greater aspiration for a twelve-year old from the mountains than to wear the cherry, silver and…

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Mighty Mike’s Meats – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoApril 1, 2021April 3, 2021

Thank you, Mighty Mike! Thank you for restoring our faith in barbecue just one day after my Kim declared “I don’t want to have barbecue for a long time.” Readers might find it hard to believe, but we uncovered a barbecue restaurant so bad our one visit risked turning us…

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Watson’s BBQ – Tucumcari, New Mexico

Gil GardunoMarch 4, 2021March 10, 2021

The Wikipedia article on Eastern New Mexico describes the region as “mostly characterized by flat featureless terrain,” even likening it to West Texas: “Like much of the Llano Estacado region, Eastern New Mexico is largely agricultural and resembles West Texas in geography, culture, economy, and demographics.” While Eastern New Mexico…

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S-A Barbecue – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoFebruary 22, 2021February 28, 2021

London-based restaurant critic Jay Rayner makes barbecue sound a bit like a scientific process: “the long, virtuous interplay of fire, smoke and time on cow and pig muscle fibre; who sees only joyous caramelisation and the deep flavours gifted by the Maillard reaction, when heat says hello to amino acids…

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Sparky’s Burgers, Barbecue & Espresso – Hatch, New Mexico