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Dorothea Fine Greek on Eubank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWhat you are is\u00a0God’s gift to\u00a0you, what you become is your gift to God<\/em>.\u201d
\n~Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n

The appellation Dorothea literally means “gift of God.”\u00a0 <\/em>\u00a0It’s a name derived from the words d\u014dron (gift) and theos (god). While the name itself is ancient Greek, there is surprisingly\u00a0 (especially considering the easily titillated denizens of Mount Olympus) no figure in pagan Greek mythology with the name Dorothea.\u00a0 Instead, Dorothea is the name of a prominent Christian saint, one christened the patron saint of florists, gardeners, and brides.\u00a0 She is often depicted with a basket of roses and fruit.\u00a0 \u00a0The name Dorothea has variants in many different languages, including Doroth\u00e9e, Dorotea, Dorota, Dorrit, Doretta and more. It has also inspired lots of cute nicknames, including Dora, Thea, Dot, Dottie, Doree and Dodie.<\/p>\n

Closer to home, Dorothea is an upscale Greek restaurant which first opened its doors in August, 2024.\u00a0 \u00a0The restaurant’s website explains that Dorothea is “named\u00a0in honor of Dorothea, the mother of renowned Greek restaurant mogul Nick Kapnison, our establishment celebrates her legacy of love, elegance, and culinary excellence<\/em>.”\u00a0 Nick Kapnison is probably the closest Albuquerque has seen to a Greek god…maybe the deity of dining or demiurge of deliciousness.\u00a0 He was a prolific restaurateur with such restaurants to his credit as The Coney Island, The Soda Straw, Milton\u2019s, Kap\u2019s, the original El Patron, Nick & Jimmy\u2019s<\/strong><\/a>, Mykonos<\/strong><\/a>, Yanni’s<\/strong><\/a> and others.\u00a0 Nick passed away<\/strong><\/a> on 11 June 2025 at the young age of 93, leaving a legacy of achievement.<\/p>\n

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Dining Room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The golden apples don’t fall far from the trees at Hesperides’ garden<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Nick’s daughter Nicole Kapnison is a prolific restaurateur in her own right.\u00a0 In an interview<\/strong><\/a> with the Albuquerque Journal, she joked that Yanni’s “is where I grew up and spent most of my time.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>She was almost fated to become a restaurant impressario.\u00a0 Among her most recent success stories is the fabulous Meraki Coffee & Market<\/strong><\/a> on Eubank.\u00a0 Meraki is the product of an immensely crative transformation of an unused space at the northwest corner of the edifice which housed Mykonos Cafe<\/strong><\/a>, one of Albuquerque\u2019s most venerable and popular Greek restaurants for generations.<\/p>\n

Dorothea is located at the former home of Mykonos, not that you would recognize much of its previous occupant.\u00a0 Few vestiges of Mykonos remain.\u00a0 Even the restaurant’s popular bar was relocated to another section of the space.\u00a0 Though Mykonos was somewhat upscale compared to other Greek restaurants in the city, Dorothea has upped the ante.\u00a0 On the restaurant’s signage, Dorothea prefaces “Fine Greek,” an indication that you’re in not just for outstanding food, but a superb experience.\u00a0 That is reinforced on the website which explains Dorothea is “where culinary tradition meets modern elegance. Inspired by the wholesome and vibrant Mediterranean diet, our restaurant offers a genuine taste of Greece, emphasizing high-quality ingredients and authentic preparation methods<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

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Tiropita<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Shortly after walking into the restaurant, we ran into Jim March, the restaurant’s director of operations.\u00a0 We’ve known Jim for a long time.\u00a0 In fact, in 2004, he and I shared our first experience with a Kobe burger at the Burger Bar in Las Vegas, Nevada.\u00a0 \u00a0Jim is a straight-shooter with impeccable credentials in restaurant and bar management.\u00a0 We trusted that he would guide our inaugural dining experience at Dorothea.\u00a0 Jim waxed enthusiastic about the menu, particularly about the sustainability and quality of ingredients.\u00a0 He explained that Nicole is committed to the highest quality of ingredients: fresh seafood, grass-fed beef, New Zealand lamb, and sheep milk cheese, for example.\u00a0 \u00a0Dorothea mirrors the Greek cooking ethos in Greece \u2014 quality ingredients, extra virgin olive oil, butter and lots of lemon and fresh herbs.<\/p>\n

Nicole explained to the Albuquerque Journal that “I wanted the space to feel warm, inviting and completely different than Mykonos.\u00a0 I wanted the space to feel cohesive with Meraki \u2014 in an upscale evening sense.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 Mission accomplished!\u00a0 We were amazed at the continuity of our experience at both spaces.\u00a0 \u00a0While Dorothea is tailored to elevate your dining experience with a dining room that’s light and airy and perfect for intimate dinners or lively celebrations, Meraki is casual and relaxed. Both are fabulous!\u00a0 Jim related that reservations–particularly on weekends–are highly recommended.\u00a0 Dorothea has become the premier dining destination in the Northease Heights.<\/p>\n

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Grilled Long Stem Artichokes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Much as we loved the menu at Mykonos, Dorothea takes Greek fine dining to another level.\u00a0 It’s a menu that retained only a few holdovers (such as the saganaki and 12-hour braised lamb shank) from Mykonos and Yanni’s.\u00a0 Studying that menu gave me as much pleasure as reading Greek mythology as a precocious child.\u00a0 There are twelve “shareables” on the menu, some familiar and others such as hamachi (ponzu, yuzu, cucumber, pickled Fresno peppers and micro greens) are new and very intriguing.\u00a0 We found ourselves wanting to try every single starter, but that’s what future visits are for.\u00a0 Four salads grace the menu as do such “Street Greek” favorites as gyros and souvlaki.\u00a0 My recollection of the oustanding pastas at Yanni’s made me happy to see four pastas on the menu. That alacrity was amped by studying the “From The Grill” section of the menu which both carnivores and pescatarians will love.\u00a0 Everyone will love something from among the ten sides.<\/p>\n

One shareable sure to delight turophiles is the tiropita (sheep’s milk feta baked in filo, thyme and lavender topped with sesame seeds and honey).\u00a0 \u00a0If you’re wondering what the difference is between tiropita and spnakopita, the latter is a spinach pie containing feta, herbs and spices encased in layers of phyllo) while tiropita<\/strong><\/em> is a a cheese pie, usually with feta as the dominant cheese.\u00a0 \u00a0Few things in life are as delightful as the melodic crisp of a fork penetrating phyllo dough then scooping up a forkful of absolute decadence.\u00a0 The contrast of salty, briny, slightly sour feta and floral honey is especially delicious.\u00a0 Pity the poor gods of Mount Olympus who didn’t know the pleasures of eating tiropita (whose origins are in ancient and Byzantine cuisine).\u00a0 It’s a relatively recent dish in the pantheon of ancient Greek cuisine.<\/p>\n

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Bone-In Pork Chop with Lobster Mashed Potatoes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the 2006 movie The Pink Panther in which Steve Martin portrayed Inspector Jacques Clouseau (not nearly as well as Peter Sellers would have), the bumbling inspector compared women to an artichoke<\/strong><\/a>: “because you have to work to get to her heart<\/em>.”\u00a0 Ironically, it doesn’t always take a lot of work to get to my Kim’s heart.\u00a0 Sometimes it just takes artichokes, one of her favorite cruciferous vegetables.\u00a0 Dorothea’s grilled long-stem artichokes<\/strong><\/em> (meyer lemon aioli, arugula, Greek bread crumbs) won my heart, too.\u00a0 As usual, the artichoke heart is the most tender with a delicate creamy texture and flavor.\u00a0 The long stems were redolent with a delightful earthiness punctuated by the tanginess of the Meyer lemon.\u00a0 This is an outstanding starter!<\/p>\n

One of the few remaining grilled options from the Mykonos days is the bone-in porkchop<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 It’s quite simply the best, most tender and delicious pork chop we\u2019ve had in Albuquerque. When our server asked how my Kim wanted the chop prepared, my Kim asked for it to be at the “medium” degree of doneness. It arrived at our table at a dictionary-definition-perfect medium degree of doneness with plenty of moistness and just a hint of pink. Greek seasonings penetrated deeply into as tender a cut of pork as we\u2019ve ever had, imbuing the chop with luscious flavors. It was a paragon of porcine perfection. The pork chop is served with one side.\u00a0 My Kim chose lobster mashed potatoes.\u00a0 You might think the bits of lobster would get lost among all those rich, buttery mashed potatoes, but they didn’t.<\/p>\n

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Lobster Pasta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My recollections of the outstanding pasta at Yanni’s meant a pasta is what I’d be having at Dorothea.\u00a0 There were four wonderful choices from which to pick, including the aforementioned lamb shank (which no one does as well as Mykonos once did).\u00a0 It’s a certainty that the other three choices will soon festoon adorn my plate, but my inaugural choice was the lobster pasta<\/strong><\/em> (yiayia organic tomato sauce, cr\u00e8me fra\u00eeche, spaghetti, lobster claw meat).\u00a0 While some may prefer the lobster tail to contain the most meaty and best part of a lobster, my preference has always been for claw meat which is sweeter and more tender.\u00a0 That I expected.\u00a0 What I didn’t expect was just how fresh the lobster was (this is landlocked Albuquerque after all).\u00a0 The only thing that could have made this dish better was even more, more, more of it.\u00a0 The spaghetti was wonderfully al dente and the sauce a perfect ameliorant.\u00a0 One ingredient not named but easily discernible is chili flake which cuts the richness of the tomato sauce just enough.<\/p>\n

My mom’s garden always included carrots:\u00a0 sweet, earthy, beautiful carrots.\u00a0 Alas, her children always considered adding carrots to stew a desecration of a vegetable best eaten raw and just out of the earth.\u00a0 Fast forward a few decades and carrots in any form have become a passion.\u00a0 Though we had thoroughly enjoyed our two shareables, Dorothea’s roasted carrots<\/strong><\/em> (honey balsamic, whipped feta, pecans, mint, zested lemon, pomegranate) beckoned insistingly.\u00a0 This beautifully plated array of carrots had the perfect balance of earthiness and sweetness with ingredients that added to their deliciousness.\u00a0 Perfectly roasted, they retained a balance of crisply satisfying crunch\u00a0 despite being soft enough for a baby’s gums.<\/p>\n

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Roasted Carrots<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You might expect to pay more for such outstanding quality as Dorothea offers, but we’ve recently experienced similarly priced meals that left us unsatisfied and wondering why we wasted our hard-earned money. With nearly eight months having elapsed in the year, Dorothea has given us the best overall restaurant experience of 2025. It’s a wonderful restaurant owned and operated by restaurateurs who really care about giving their guests great value, wonderful meals and a superb experience.<\/p>\n

Dorothea – Fine Greek<\/strong>
\n5900 Eubank, N.E.
\nAlbuquerque, New Mexico<\/strong>
\n(505) 291-1116
\nWebsite<\/strong><\/a> | Facebook Page<\/strong><\/a>
\nLATEST VISIT<\/strong>: 21 August 2025
\n# OF VISITS<\/strong>: 1
\nRATING<\/strong>: N\/R
\nCOST<\/strong>: $$$ – $$$$
\nBEST BET<\/strong>:
\nREVIEW #1484<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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