{"id":15718,"date":"2012-05-25T09:18:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T15:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=15718"},"modified":"2018-07-17T21:04:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T03:04:41","slug":"mambas-kitchen-albuquerque-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=15718","title":{"rendered":"Mamba&#8217;s Kitchen &#8211; Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<figure style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 476px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 476\/275;border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/abq\/newmexican\/images\/Mamba02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"275\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Mamba&#8217;s Kitchen on San Mateo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">When my friend Ryan &#8220;Break the Chain&#8221; Scott and I first visited Mamba&#8217;s Kitchen, we deliberated the genesis of the restaurant&#8217;s name. The possibilities were intriguing. The restaurant must be named for the black mamba, one of the world&#8217;s most venomous snakes, I thought. Ryan surmised then quickly dismissed the notion that the restaurant&#8217;s name honors Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers star who calls himself the &#8220;Mamba&#8221; because he wants to have the type of basketball precision the snake has (it can strike with 99 percent accuracy at maximum speed, in rapid succession). Could it share the Mamba sobriquet with Beatrix Kiddo, the protagonist of the brilliant Quentin Tarantino movie Kill Bill, we wondered. Perhaps it&#8217;s named for Mambo Italiano, the 1954 hit song by Rosemary Clooney.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Because the edifice which is now home to Mamba&#8217;s Kitchen twice previously housed two soul food restaurants, we finally reasoned Mamba&#8217;s Kitchen must be a sort of hybrid Soul food-Mexican food fusion restaurant.\u00a0 Clever though our conjecture was, the reason for the restaurant&#8217;s name is far more down-to-earth and beautifully innocent.\u00a0 Mamba is actually named for the grandmother of restaurant founder and owner Rebecca Sandoval.\u00a0 When a grandchild couldn&#8217;t pronounce &#8220;grandma,&#8221; he began calling her &#8220;mamba.&#8221;\u00a0 Perhaps given a year or two Ryan and I might have figured that out.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 475px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 475\/363;border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/abq\/newmexican\/images\/Mamba03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"363\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Naquitos: bite-sized taquitos covered in chile con queso and jalape\u00f1os<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Mamba&#8217;s Kitchen is the most recent occupant of a deep cranberry red home converted to a restaurant decades ago.\u00a0 Previous tenants include the Mediterranean Cafe, <a title=\"A Taste of Soul\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=9343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Taste of Soul<\/a> and <a title=\"Quesada's New Mexican Restaurant\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=4343\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quesada&#8217;s New Mexican Restaurant<\/a>, the last two very short-lived restaurants seemingly on the brink of break-out success before closing all too quickly.\u00a0 Mamba&#8217;s Kitchen, a family owned and operated restaurant appears to have more staying power largely because it subscribes to the motto &#8220;where it feels and tastes like home.&#8221;\u00a0 It also offers a unique Mexican-New Mexican menu with traditional favorites interspersed among some surprises heretofore unseen in any other Duke City restaurant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">The surprises begin in the antojitos (appetizers) section of the menu where in addition to tacos, taquitos, chile con queso, guacamole salad and chips n&#8217; salsa, you&#8217;ll find a hybrid of taquitos and nachos called <em>Naquitos<\/em>.\u00a0 This is a must order item!\u00a0 In fact, you&#8217;ll be best served ordering two.\u00a0 Naquitos are bite-sized taquitos covered in chile con queso and jalape\u00f1os.\u00a0 While that sounds simple enough, there&#8217;s quite a depth of complexity in the melding of flavors which go great together.\u00a0 The taquitos are engorged with brisket, tender tendrils of delicious beef.\u00a0 The chile con queso is not the gloppy, off-putting cheese from a can served in many a ballpark, but an amalgam of wonderful Mexican melting cheeses.\u00a0 The jalape\u00f1os are freshly chopped, not baked or roasted.\u00a0 This is one of those rare appetizers which stands out as a highlight of a meal and that&#8217;s saying something because everything we had at Mamba&#8217;s was memorable.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 455px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 455px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 455\/459;border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/abq\/newmexican\/images\/Mamba04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"459\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Asado Burrito: Deep-fried pork carnitas simmered in red chile, beans and chile<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">One of the specialties at Mamba&#8217;s Kitchen are burritos, and not just the standard, run-of-the-mill burritos you&#8217;ll find just about anywhere in the Duke City.\u00a0 The menu offers Po&#8217; Boy Burritos which bear no resemblance to the Po&#8217; Boy sandwiches made famous in New Orleans.\u00a0 These burritos are called Po&#8217; Boy because they&#8217;re so budget conscious at under a dollar each.\u00a0 They&#8217;re also stuffed with novelty ingredients, the complete antithesis of what you&#8217;ll typically find engorging the usual burrito suspects.\u00a0 Simplicity itself, the Po&#8217; Boys are available with such unique fillings as spam and egg, bologna and egg and hot dog and egg.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Having grown up within the confines of the Picuris Pueblo reservation where I first experienced the delights of a fried baloney burrito, I can attest to its deliciousness (decades later barbecued baloney became my very favorite barbecued anything in Memphis, Tennessee).\u00a0 The <em>bologna and egg burrito<\/em> at Mamba&#8217;s is a real treat though there wasn&#8217;t quite as much bologna as this barbecue aficionado would have liked.\u00a0 My advice is to spring for a double portion of bologna and green chile.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 460px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 460\/362;border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/abq\/newmexican\/images\/Mamba05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"362\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">New Mexico Burger: Cheeseburger topped with green chile, dressed with mayo and garnished with lettuce and tomatoes<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">If the Po&#8217; Boy burritos are intended for all but the <a title=\"One Percenters\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/99_percent#Precedents_for_.22the_wealthiest_1.25.22_and_.22the_99_percent.22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one-percenters<\/a>, diners of all wealth demographics will easily be able to afford every burrito on the menu, the most expensive of which is still under five dollars.\u00a0 Not counting the seven Po&#8217; Boy burritos, there are ten burrito options on the menu.\u00a0 The <em>Asado Burrito<\/em> is an early candidate for my favorite though in future visits the Fajita and Chicharron burritos might prompt a change of mind.\u00a0 The Asado Burrito is engorged with deep-fried carnitas simmered in red chile, beans and cheese.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a large burrito enrobed in a griddled tortilla with perfect pinto pony char.\u00a0 The chile is relatively mild, but has a nice flavor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">There are five burgers on the menu including a taco or tortilla burger described on the menu as a cheeseburger cut in half to make two tacos or two tortilla burgers with green chile and lettuce.\u00a0 Mamba&#8217;s version of a green chile cheeseburger is called the <em>New Mexico burger<\/em> and it&#8217;s dressed with mayo and garnished with tomatoes, lettuce and cheese.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a very moist burger, somewhat reminiscent of the burgers at <a title=\"Griff's\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Griff&#8217;s<\/a>, a long-time favorite.\u00a0 The green chile has no real discernible bite, but has a nice roasted flavor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Though not named for the quick-striking African serpent, Mamba&#8217;s Kitchen may just as quickly ensnare your affections and kill your hunger with delicious food priced reasonably and served by a very nice family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>Mamba&#8217;s Kitchen<\/strong><br \/>\n513 San Mateo, N.E.<br \/>\n<strong>Albuquerque, New Mexico<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>LATEST VISIT<\/strong>: 25 May 2012<br \/>\n<strong># OF VISITS<\/strong>: 1<br \/>\n<strong>RATING<\/strong>: *<br \/>\n<strong>COST<\/strong>: $ &#8211; $$<br \/>\n<strong>BEST BET<\/strong>: Naquitos, Asado Burrito, Bologna &amp; Egg Po&#8217; Boy Burrito, New Mexico Burger with Fries <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/60\/1588197\/restaurant\/Highland\/Mambas-Kitchen-Albuquerque\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; padding: 0px; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1588197\/biglink.gif\" alt=\"Mamba's Kitchen on Urbanspoon\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my friend Ryan &#8220;Break the Chain&#8221; 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