   |  Bars in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico with Vegetarian Available Albuquerque - Old TownNew Mexico's largest winery, St. Clair Vineyards has branched out into the food service sector. The casual, reasonably priced eatery is located just to the northwest of the Sheraton Old Town off Rio Grande. Regular live jazz music, two patios and a spacious front specialty wine and gift shop bring wine festival flair to thirsty Burqueños year-round, while the menu is built around the Vineyard's signature wines. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) View/Add Reviews [ 2 ] Albuquerque - UniversityBandido HideoutSun 8am-9pm
Mon-Thu 8am-10pm
Fri 8am-11pm (subject to change) $ • Vegetarian Available • Booze Served • Full Bar • Craft Beer • NM Beer • Delivery • Catering • Take Out / To-Go • Karaoke • Wireless Internet
Look beyond the marketing gimmick of the poor, sweaty guy asphyxiating on the Central median, face concealed behind a sequined Mexican wrestling mask. Either chow down inside the colorful restaurant (try the fresh peanut salsa and
horchata
) or have items from its extensive menu delivered directly to your door. Sundays feature a spectacular display of tableside live mariachi music. (Be forewarned: If you know a little Spanish, your interactions with the staff will go much more smoothly.) Open ’til 11 p.m.! (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) Add a Review Brickyard PizzaMon-Thurs: 11am-1:30am
Fri-Sat: noon-2:30am
Sun: noon-midnight (subject to change)
Brickyard Pizza is known for fast slices and beers on the cheap. It's the only full bar directly across from UNM, making it the prime watering hole for your post-theater and post- or pre-class needs. It also sometimes has live music and, usually, more televised sports than you can handle. The best thing about Brickyard, though, is that it's also the only noncorporate pizza establishment with late-night delivery (until 2:30 a.m. on Friday and Saturday and until 1:30 a.m. all other nights) in Burque, which satiates an otherwise unfortunate void. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) View/Add Reviews [ 1 ]  Carraro's Pizza and Italian Restaurant & Joe’s PlaceMon-Fri: 11:30am-2am
Sat: 2pm-2am
Sun: noon-midnight (subject to change)
In the front, it's a standard restaurant laid out with a small bar and big window facing the street. Travel a short way through a blacklit hall and enter the kind of divey neighborhood hangout this city needs more of, complete with TVs, a jukebox, a ping-pong table, air hockey and arcade games. Though the entire menu is available no matter where you choose to spend your time, you can't go wrong with the twisty-crust pizza. Caroline the bartender makes the meanest Lemondrops and non-blended Margaritas around. Suck back one of her Bloody Marys, too, which she makes extra spicy with Sriracha rooster sauce. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) Add a Review
We still miss Jack’s, but its copper-ceilinged replacement has been around long enough to become an institution itself. The rambly old building has plenty of dark corners to hide in as you make your way through the extensive beer menu, and if the weather’s nice, an inviting patio area to scarf down a brick-oven cooked pizza in the fresh Spring breeze. (Alibi Staff, December 23, 2010) Add a Review Rasoi’s decor is attention-grabbing—hot-orange walls, billowing curtains, shining silver mirrors, glittering tapestries and a gorgeous, bejeweled orb lamp in the middle of the dining room. And the food is equally resplendent. When vegetarians sleep, they’d do well to dream of
sabz-e-bahar’s
savory stewed vegetables in a spicy tomato-and-onion sauce, or the thick, creamy
chana dal
(lentil) soup, fragrant with fresh cilantro and ginger. Chicken
makhani
translates as “butter chicken,” and it lives up to the comparison. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) View/Add Reviews [ 1 ] Albuquerque - Upper Nob Hill![What’s the difference between a pub and a bar? O’Niell says, “Its not about making more money by serving people more [alcohol]. It's about somebody having a burger and a couple beers, enjoying themselves and going home safe.”](http://images.alibi.com/image/pix_id/8311/Whats-the-difference-between-a-pub-and-a-bar-ON.jpg?image_height=94&image_width=94&orig_crop_left=108&orig_crop_right=109) O'Niell's Pub
O'Niell's Pub is back—and serves food until midnight on weekdays! A few years after being ousted from its nearly decade-long home in Nob Hill, O'Niell's Pub has migrated east up Central and reopened in a new (but reassuringly familiar) space. All the old standouts like fish and chips and the “Burger in Paradise” are still here and as good as they ever were. Tractor Brewing's O'Niell's Irish Red is a perfectly balanced beer drunk by itself or with everything from chicken wings to chocolate cake. They're comforting, a little cheeky and unapologetically Irish-American. Just like O'Niell's Pub. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) View/Add Reviews [ 1 ] Albuquerque - Uptown Charlie's Front and Back DoorFront Door hours:
Mon-Sat: 11am-2pm, 5-9pm
Sun 11am-2pm
Back Door hours:
Mon-Sat: 11am-9pm
Sun: 11am-8pm (subject to change) Full review: I liked it both ways (10/23/2008)
This place is a dive. And we mean that in a good way—unpretentious and broken-in like a favorite pair of scuffed boots. The cozily dim restaurant (front) and bar (back) are separated by a kitchen that services both rooms with Charlie’s signature New Mexican-American fare. Roll up your sleeves for delicious sour cream-chicken enchiladas and enormous, juicy burgers; then order a round of Bud Light for your blue-collar buddies. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) Add a Review If you’re in the Uptown Mall and in need of a bite to eat, and perhaps an elephant safari, Elephant Bar might be your ticket. OK, so the elephants aren’t real, and you can’t ride on them, but the large dining room is full of carvings and sculptures of them, even more than palm trees. The food is Americanized Asian mishmash, with good salads and seafood. An organic green salad with walnuts and creamy gorgonzola was big and good, simple in a good way. The wood grilled trout with lobster sauce was pure joy to eat. Even better is the ahi tuna salad, available as both entrée and appetizer sized, which consists of slices of seared fish atop a pile of seaweed and salad greens, with pickled ginger and wasabi—and green sesame seeds. (Alibi Staff, December 23, 2010) Add a Review Marcello’s Chop HouseLunch: Mon-Sat: 11am-3pm
Dinner: Mon-Thurs: 5-10pm
Fri-Sat: 5-11pm
Closed Sunday (subject to change)
Get ready to drop some serious dough on this place, but if anything will get you into someone’s pants, it’d be a meal here. This joint is cool, smooth and classy, the
foie gras and Kobe beef are tender and delicious and even the mac and cheese is fancy-schmantzy with a sprinkling of shaved black truffles. Have an excellent glass of wine, an order of oysters Marcello and don’t forget to lay on the charm. Your date (and your libido) will thank you for it. Open late—10 p.m. weekdays, 11 p.m. weekends—of course. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) View/Add Reviews [ 1 ] Albuquerque - WestsideElliott's RestaurantVegetarian Available • Booze Served • Full Bar • Live Music • DJ • Karaoke • Dancing • Pool Tables • Outdoor Patio • Smoking Permitted • Wireless Internet Happy Hour!: 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Hooters RestaurantMon-Thurs-11-11, Fri-Sat-11-12, Sun 11-10 (subject to change) Cuisine: American Vegetarian Available • Booze Served • Full Bar • Craft Beer • NM Beer • Delivery • Take Out / To-Go • Live Music • Karaoke • Pool Tables • Outdoor Patio • Smoking Permitted • Wireless Internet Happy Hour!: every weekday 2:00pm - 6:00pmHappy Hour!: every weekday 9:00pm - 11:00pm
Il VicinoSun-Thu: 11am-10 pm
Fri-Sat: 11 am-11 pm (subject to change)
Il Vicino’s thin-crusted, gourmet-topped pizzas are perennial favorites among
Alibi
readers, but the big salads are equally popular. Order at the register and a server brings the food to your table, making weekday lunches speedy. The open kitchen gives you something to stare at while you wait. Stop in for a quick lunch or a late afternoon microbrew on the patio. (Alibi Staff, April 10, 2013) Add a Review  Knuckleheads Bar & GrillSunday: 11:00-12:00am, Mon-Wed: 11:00am-11:00pm, Thurs-Sat: 11:00am-2:00am (subject to change) Cuisine: Bar and Grill/Pub Vegetarian Available • Booze Served • Full Bar • NM Beer • Catering • Live Music • Karaoke • Jukebox • Dancing • Pool Tables • Outdoor Patio • Smoking Permitted • Wireless Internet Free Pool: 11:00am - 3:00pmHappy Hour!: 3:00pm - 7:00pm Full review: Knuckle sandwich, anyone? (1/6/2011)
This sports bar on Coors just north of I-40, has got your UFC fix on TV along with some satisfying bar food options. The rack of basted barbecue ribs are juicy, tender and fatty. A mesquite chicken sandwich, served on a ciabatta bun, is tasty. And the oven-roasted turkey club with poblano pepper and grilled onions is a winner. (Alibi Staff, December 23, 2010) Add a Review Pelican’s RestaurantMon-Thurs: 5-10:30pm
Fri-Sat: 5-11:30pm
Sun: 11am-10pm
*Bar opens every day at 4pm (subject to change)
Roughhewn wood planks lead you into this nautically themed steak and seafood restaurant, which doesn’t start seating for dinner until 5 p.m. Luckily, happy hour begins at 4 p.m. Have a “Lady Godiva” hot cocktail and a baker's dozen of “topless” oysters in the bar while you wait. Then dive into creamy clam chowder, 10-ounce, butter-sweet Australian lobster tail and Ranchero center-cut top sirloin. There's plenty of key lime pie in the icebox and Phil Collins on the speakers. Dinner’s served until 10:30 p.m. every night. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) Add a Review CorralesFritz Allen opened the Corrales Bistro Brewery five years ago next door to his Hanselmann Pottery shop in the Corrales Artisan Center. The menu is full of inventive appetizers, salads, wraps, sandwiches and burgers. Roasted garlic and feta bread dippers are replete with crumbled feta, olive tapenade, balsamic dipping sauce and toasted pita. Hand-cut fries and an assortment of sides complete the mix, with good brews to wash it all down. Stop by for the almost-daily live music and you’ll feel right at home. (Alibi Staff, September 1, 2011) Add a Review Rio Rancho - DowntownJoe's Pasta HouseCuisine: Italian
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