{"id":36016,"date":"2015-03-07T00:36:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T06:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=36016"},"modified":"2020-09-15T10:21:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T16:21:14","slug":"ortegas-mexican-restaurant-albuquerque-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=36016","title":{"rendered":"Ortega’s New Mexican Restaurant – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ortega’s Mexican Restaurant on Wyoming just north of Comanche<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From Ortega’s Facebook Page<\/strong>: It has been our pleasure to serve Albuquerque and visitors for nearly 32 years\ufffc. We want to thank you for supporting Ortega\u2019s Restaurant for more than three decades\ufffc\ufffc. We have enjoyed your company and made many friends over the years. On September 12, 2020, we will close our doors for the last time.<\/span>
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If you were raised in New Mexico thirty or more years ago, chances are you weren’t raised on the healthiest of diets. New Mexican food, while incomparably delicious, isn’t exactly a dietician’s dream. Even our beloved frijoles, the healthiest of carbohydrates, were prepared in lard…and many of our dishes which weren’t prepared with lard, had enough cheese to keep Wisconsin fiscally afloat. It’s no wonder the Land of Enchantment’s population is rife with caloric overachievers.<\/span><\/p>\n

You’ll forgive those of us who survived such overindulgence to somehow reach middle age if we’re skeptical when a New Mexican restaurant boasts that “you don’t have to be health conscious – because we already are!” To support that contention, Ortega’s New Mexican Restaurant in Albuquerque:<\/span><\/p>\n