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Milly’s Restaurant – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoMarch 15, 2023April 5, 202611:28 AM

Until rather recently, if there was a wide diversity of opinion about Albuquerque’s restaurant scene, it wasn’t widely shared. Albuquerque’s two daily periodicals, the Albuquerque Journal and the Albuquerque Tribune as well as a number of alternative publications published weekly restaurant reviews, but opinions and observations expressed therein were rather one-sided. It wasn’t until about 2008 that crowd-sourced restaurant reviews really took off in the Duke City. Published in such online mediums as TripAdvisor (founded in 2000), Yelp (launched in 2004) and Urbanspoon (debuted in 2006), crowd-sourced review venues gave everyone an opportunity to become a “critic.” More than ever before “Joe and Jane Diner” had license to express rather colorful (sometimes bordering on libel) versions of their truth. One of the predictable outcomes of this open, honest and direct culture became the wide swath of differing opinions. This illustrated how different people can have distinctly different perceptions—each a snapshot of time–of their experience at a restaurant. Reviews for some restaurants run the gamut with some reviewers extolling every aspect of their visit as “fabulous” while others lambaste every facet of their experience. It’s almost as if two different restaurants are being reviewed. The differences are sometimes so very pronounced…

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Urbano Pasta Kitchen – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)

Gil GardunoJanuary 18, 2021May 1, 202411:14 AM

“To break bread together,” a phrase as old as the Bible, captures the power of a meal to forge relationships, bury anger, provoke laughter.” ~The Joy of Food From National Geographic Sharing a meal creates a unique sense of intimacy felt by all who sit together at the table. It’s an act that can spark new friendships, solidify lifetime bonds and serve as the backdrop for new memories. Dining together is the most communal and binding action humans can take–an act The Atlantic describes as “a quintessential human experience.” It’s a universal act that transcends cultures, borders and geopolitical divides and it’s been practiced since the dawn of time. Or at least for 300,000 years according to archaeologists who unearthed evidence of ancient meals where diners gathered to eat together at a cave near Tel Aviv. Professor Ayelet Fishbach published a study in the Journal of Consumer Psychology that showed colleagues who ate similar foods together experienced higher rates of trust and closeness than those who ate alone. If you’ve ever worked in a team environment, you can relate to that finding. It’s amazing just how many agreements are brokered and how many ideas are conceived when two…