{"id":365,"date":"2007-04-30T02:49:17","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T01:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:02:29","slug":"popeyes-chicken-biscuits-albuquerque-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Popeye&#8217;s Chicken &#038; Biscuits &#8211; Albuquerque, New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 289px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 289\/309;vertical-align: text-top; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; border: 4px solid black;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/abq\/specialty\/Images\/Popeye03.jpg\" alt=\"Popeye's Chicken &amp; Biscuits\" width=\"289\" height=\"309\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Popeye&#8217;s Chicken &amp; Biscuits<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><em>Shortly after Louisiana and Mississippi were ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, one of the local television stations in South Louisiana actually aired an interview with a woman from New Orleans. The interviewer was a woman from a Boston affiliate, so she asked the interviewee how such total and complete devastation of the churches in the area had affected their lives.\u00a0 The woman replied,&#8221; I don&#8217;t know about all those other people but we get our chicken from Popeye&#8217;s.\u201d The look on the interviewer&#8217;s face was priceless<\/em>.\u00a0 That anecdote rings with truism<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Contrary to the images the name might conjure, Popeye&#8217;s is not a nautical themed restaurant which serves spinach.\u00a0 That might be why the restaurant&#8217;s full appellation is &#8220;Popeye&#8217;s Chicken &amp; Biscuits.&#8221;\u00a0 In reality, Popeye&#8217;s is named for the irascible character Popeye Doyle from the movie &#8220;The French Connection.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 It is the brainchild of restaurant impresario Al Copeland who founded the New Orleans style poultry palace in 1972 after a failed venture featuring mild, Southern-fried chicken. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">New Orleans style chicken is imbued with the exciting, spicy flavor about which Cajuns are passionate.\u00a0 In our eight years of living in Mississippi, we rarely dined at Popeye&#8217;s, preferring local alternatives with even more incendiary cayenne pepper producing heat.\u00a0 Considering no one loves the heat of piquant foods like New Mexicans, you would think Popeye&#8217;s would be embraced yet the 1990s saw Albuquerque&#8217;s Popeye&#8217;s restaurants succumb to closure. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 357px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 357px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 357\/270;vertical-align: text-top; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; border: 4px solid black;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/abq\/specialty\/Images\/Popeye01.jpg\" alt=\"Fried chicken, biscuit and fried catfish\" width=\"357\" height=\"270\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Fried chicken, biscuit and fried catfish<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">November 12, 2005 saw the launch of the first of twelve planned Popeye&#8217;s restaurants in the Duke City.\u00a0 If the opening day pageant of vehicles (including ours) snaking around the building at a crawl for up to two hour waits portends future success, Popeye&#8217;s is here to stay&#8211;for good this time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">At first glance Popeye&#8217;s fried chicken resembles the fried chicken you can find at any grocery store. Its crispy coating is akin to the Colonel&#8217;s extra crispy offering.\u00a0 That crispy exterior belies the juiciness within.\u00a0 Popeye&#8217;s fried chicken is moist, tender and infused with cayenne, that spicy seasoning Cajun Americans have come to love although some fire eating New Mexicans might wonder what the hullabaloo is all about because the chicken is fairly tame compared to the incendiary foods on which they were weaned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Biscuits, which share prominence on the restaurant&#8217;s marquee, are buttery with a light golden hue.\u00a0 Unlike the biscuits proffered by Popeye&#8217;s competitors, they don&#8217;t crumble on your hands.\u00a0 Sides include &#8220;Cajun&#8221; battered fries, &#8220;Cajun&#8221; rice, mashed potatoes and &#8220;Cajun&#8221; gravy as well as red beans and rice, another Louisiana favorite. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 388px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 388px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 388\/291;vertical-align: text-top; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; border: 4px solid black;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/abq\/specialty\/Images\/Popeye02.jpg\" alt=\"Fried chicken, dirty rice and coleslaw\" width=\"388\" height=\"291\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Fried chicken, dirty rice and coleslaw<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">The &#8220;Cajun&#8221; rice, known as &#8220;dirty rice&#8221; in the deep South is a blend of meats, shallots and seasonings.\u00a0 Popeye&#8217;s version is among the worse we&#8217;ve had, a pitiful pretender that any self-respecting Cajun would toss out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Popeye&#8217;s coleslaw tastes surprisingly like the Colonel&#8217;s with a similar surfeit of cloying salad cream. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Our former home state of Mississippi seemingly competed with New Mexico for last place in every ignominious list compiled, but one category in which it leads the nation is in production of pond-raised catfish.\u00a0 We learned during our eight years in the Deep South what great catfish tastes like and it certainly isn&#8217;t what Popeye&#8217;s puts on the plate.\u00a0 The Popeye&#8217;s version is desiccated and somewhat flavorless in comparison to what we became accustomed to. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">A dessert offering called &#8220;Mississippi Mud&#8221; might be appropriately named because that&#8217;s where it belongs&#8211;on the bottom of the murky river for which it is named.\u00a0 We enjoyed Mississippi Mud throughout the South and will argue that Popeye&#8217;s version is a misnomer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">The chicken is the reason most poultry patrons visit Popeye&#8217;s and why they return in droves. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>Popeye&#8217;s Chicken &amp; Biscuits<\/strong><br \/>\n10074 Coors, N.W.<br \/>\n<strong>Albuquerque, New Mexico<\/strong><br \/>\n(505) 792-3350<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>LATEST VISIT<\/strong>: 30 April 2007<br \/>\n<strong># OF VISITS<\/strong>: 4<br \/>\n<strong>RATING<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Good<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u2013 good food, decent service, and a clean environment; provides a satisfactory, dependable, and standard experience<br \/>\n<strong>COST<\/strong>: $<br \/>\n<strong>BEST BET<\/strong>: Spicy Fried Chicken<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after Louisiana and Mississippi were ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, one of the local television stations in South Louisiana actually aired an interview with a woman from New Orleans. The interviewer was a woman from a Boston affiliate, so she asked the interviewee how such total and complete devastation of the churches in the area had affected their lives.\u00a0 The woman replied,&#8221; I don&#8217;t know about all those other people but we get our chicken from Popeye&#8217;s.\u201d The look on the interviewer&#8217;s face was priceless.\u00a0 That anecdote rings with truism Contrary to the images the name might conjure, Popeye&#8217;s is not a nautical themed restaurant which serves spinach.\u00a0 That might be why the restaurant&#8217;s full appellation is &#8220;Popeye&#8217;s Chicken &amp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[440,522,268,5632],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-albuquerque","category-chicken","category-national-chain","category-good"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Popeye&#039;s Chicken &amp; Biscuits - Albuquerque, New Mexico - Gil&#039;s Thrilling (And Filling) Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=365\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Popeye&#039;s Chicken &amp; Biscuits - Albuquerque, New Mexico - Gil&#039;s Thrilling (And Filling) Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Shortly after Louisiana and Mississippi were ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, one of the local television stations in South Louisiana actually aired an interview with a woman from New Orleans. 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