   |  Albuquerque - Downtown Slate Street CaféMon-Fri: 7:30am-3pm
Tue-Thu: 7:30am-3pm, 5pm-9pm; Fri: 7:30am-3pm, 5pm-10pm
Sat-Sun: 9am-2pm, 5pm-10pm (subject to change) $$$ • Vegetarian Available • Booze Served • Wine Bar • Craft Beer • Outdoor Patio • Credit Cards • Lounge Full review: This ain’t your mama’s meatloaf (1/3/2008)
Modeled after a New York loft, Slate Street’s wine bar has an ultra-hip, modern, minimalist feel. This wine list is rhythmic, flowing and poetic, and it’s the most pleasurable to read and easiest to comprehend in Albuquerque. The wines are listed by style—“just a little sweet,” “ABC: Anything But Chardonnay” or “sexy, elegant, austere”—not varietal or region. Demystifying the label like this makes it easy for patrons to pair wine and food. The listings are simple, but not simplistic. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) View/Add Reviews [ 2 ]  Farina Pizzeria and Wine BarMon: 11am-9pm
Tues-Fri: 11am-10pm
Sat: 5-10pm
Sun: 5-9pm (subject to change) Full review: Seriously sexy food (12/25/2008)
Across Edith from the Artichoke Café, Farina’s proximity to some of the most established fine dining in Albuquerque isn't an accident. Farina is the punked-up younger sibling of jazzy Artichoke Café, and it brings a tantalizingly direct message to the neighborhood: pizza, beer and wine, and all of it damn good. Sharp, concise and to the point, with 20 superb choices offered by the glass or bottle. Farina’s wine list is straightforward and focused. The bar is comfortable and every wine is perfectly matched to the kitchen’s chic pizzeria offerings. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) View/Add Reviews [ 2 ] Despite the massive reconstruction work that's been done on the inside of this second-story restaurant-lounge, you won’t be able to keep your eyes off the epic views of the Sunrise Bank building and Route 66 one story below. Up front, there's a curved black-and-gold granite bar that’s custom-built for fabulous cocktails—One Up infuses several of its liquors and hand-muddles fresh fruits and vegetables. Leather lounge settees are staggered throughout the wide-open space, staging several opulent but comfortable conversation zones. Top-of-the-line professional pool tables line the back the room. On the food side, a large menu of tapas (kobe sliders and fried goat cheese among them) and more substantial entrées rounds out your evening. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) View/Add Reviews [ 1 ] Albuquerque - Far Northeast Heights Pelican’s RestaurantMon-Thurs: 5-10:30pm
Fri-Sat: 5-11:30pm
Sun: 11am-10pm
*Bar opens at 4pm every day (subject to change) Meals Served: Dinner Full review: Lips Ahoy! (10/5/2006)
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. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) Add a Review  Savoy Bar and GrillLunch: Mon-Fri: 11am-3pm
Dinner: Sun-Thurs: 5-10pm
Fri-Sat: 5-11pm (subject to change) Full review: Grape harmony (9/6/2007)
Wine flights are the best way to try different selections without going broke, and Savoy has some interesting choices. They pair perfectly with the restaurant’s stunning interiors and lovely New American dishes—grouper in an almond-romesco sauce, seafood linguine, grilled peach and seared sea scallop salads, and the house charcuterie plate. For dessert, there’s praline-chocolate torte ($6), house-made blackberry-Chambord ice cream ($3.50), cheese plates and, of course, a glass of La Spinetta Moscato d’Asti ($5). Open ’til 10 p.m. weekdays, 11 p.m. weekends. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) Add a Review Albuquerque - I-25 Corridor Doc & Eddy's11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Monday through Saturday. 10:30 a.m. to midnight Sundays during football season. (Opens 11 a.m. daily during the off-season.) (subject to change) $$ • Vegetarian Available • Booze Served • Full Bar • Craft Beer • Pool Tables • Outdoor Patio • Credit Cards Full review: The cure for the common sports bar (10/21/2010)
Something that sets Doc & Eddy’s apart from other sports bars is that no cover charge is extracted on Ultimate Fighting Championship nights. What you
will
find are pool tables, waitresses who are not dressed like strippers (TDs is across the parking lot if that’s what you’re after—it also airs UFC) and a kitchen staff that takes its job seriously. The Lobo burger is a thing of beauty, with smoked bacon sparring nicely with cheese and green chile. The fries are skin-on, and the legit red chile is medium spiced with the occasional fleck of coriander. Maybe everyone doesn’t know your name, but it’s pleasant and friendly—even to Brock Lesnar fans. (Alibi Staff, December 23, 2010) Add a Review  The Fox and Hound$$ • Vegetarian Available • Booze Served • Full Bar • Craft Beer • Pool Tables • Outdoor Patio • Credit Cards Full review: When you’re hunting for good bar food (4/22/2010)
At first glance, The Fox and Hound is your typical sports bar, hip-hop music blasting, TVs blaring, and pretty waitresses bustling. But one glance at the extensive menu is all it takes to clue you in that it is a fine restaurant as well. Unlike the usual fried piece of beer sponge that you get at most sports bars, the menu offers more elegant dishes like blackened mahi-mahi. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) Add a Review  Sneakerz$$ • Booze Served • Full Bar • Craft Beer • Take Out / To-Go • Pool Tables • Wireless Internet • Credit Cards Full review: Volleyball, check. Hot wings, check. MMA, not so much. (3/17/2011)
Albuquerque - Nob Hill Brasserie La ProvenceLUNCH: Monday - Friday 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. and Saturdays 8:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.
DINNER: every night 5 p.m. - 10 p.m. and until 11 p.m. weekends
BRUNCH: Sundays 10:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. (subject to change) Cuisine: French Read more: Mina’s Dish: Chef Claus takes over at La Provence (7/21/2011) Full review: French kiss the cook (11/15/2007) Read more: Around the World (10/9/2008)
If you’re in the mood for an amenable French brunch, lunch or dinner, say
oui
to La Provence. Nob Hill's newest restaurant is still a little rough around the edges, but has the potential to be great. The wine bar in the front of the restaurant (chockfull of rare-find French wines) is very cozy, while the back dining room, with its tables packed tightly together, feels cramped at peak hours. Likewise, the waitstaff can come off as inexperienced, but is very nice and accommodating nonetheless. Try the
moules frites
(mussels steamed in white wine) served with a side of little truffle french fries or the
confit de canard aux lentilles
(roasted duck with lentils). For dessert, the crème brûlée is a must. BLP also does brunch and half-off wine bottles on Sundays and Mondays. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) View/Add Reviews [ 5 ]  ImbibeCuisine: Bar and Grill/Pub $$ • Booze Served • Full Bar • DJ • Dancing • Outdoor Patio • Smoking Permitted • Credit Cards • Lounge Full review: Two quickies at the bar (7/31/2008)
A bar you can smoke in! Imbibe is an über-trendy cigar lounge with backlit smoke-tendril art and contemporary seating. There are hordes of annoying knockoff-clad barflies as far as the eye can see, but the humidor is well-stocked and well-attended by knowledgeable staff, and there’s a rooftop deck (if you can make it up there; there’s always a line). Get there early for the best seats. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) View/Add Reviews [ 1 ]  Nob Hill Bar and GrillTues-Thurs: 11am-10pm
Fri-Sat: 11am-11pm
Sun: noon-9pm, bar open late
Closed Monday (subject to change) $$$ • Vegetarian Available • Booze Served • Full Bar • Craft Beer • DJ • Dancing • Outdoor Patio • Credit Cards Full review: Gastrobar is best after dinner (6/26/2008)
If you like your comfort food with a gourmet twist, it’s here. Nob Hill Bar and Grill boasts meatloaf (crowned with smoked bacon) and burgers (American kobe). Signature cocktails, a few vegetarian entrées, and a comfy but chic atmosphere make Nob Hill Bar and Grill a solid addition to the neighborhood. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) View/Add Reviews [ 11 ]  VivaceMon-Sat:11am-closing(usually9pm)
Sun: 5pm-closing(usually10pm) (subject to change) Cuisine: Italian Full review: An old flame still shines bright in Nob Hill (9/7/2006)
What is it about garlic bread, meatballs and marinara that makes our palates sing with pitch-perfect pleasure? Whether it's the aroma of simmering Alfredo, the curvaceous beauty of a skillfully tossed crust or the allure of linguine drizzled in creamy pesto, we dig Italian from Vivace—especially since it tied in the 2007 Best of Burque Restaurants poll for both Best Italian and Best Pasta. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) Add a Review  Zinc Wine Bar & BistroLunch: Tues-Fri: 11am-2:30pm Brunch: Sun: 11am-2:30pm
Dinner: Mon-Thurs: 5-10pm
Fri-Sat: 5-11pm (subject to change) $$$$ • Vegetarian Available • Booze Served • Full Bar • Wine Bar • Catering • Live Music • Credit Cards Full review: A tale of two restaurants (12/20/2007)
Best Wine Bar winners in 2008’s Best of Burque poll, Zinc is a delightfully renovated historic space in Nob Hill, reborn as an upscale restaurant serving elegant American food with noticeable French inspiration. Thirsty? Don't miss the mocha, with “Zinc” written in chocolate syrup, or the wonderful selection of wines by the glass. Downstairs, the wine bar attracts a younger crowd for drinks and music. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) View/Add Reviews [ 4 ] Albuquerque - North Valley Vernon’s Hidden Valley SteakhouseCuisine: Steakhouse Full review: Dine well and speakeasy (1/24/2008)
Only open Fridays and Saturdays from 5 to 9 p.m., Vernon’s is a swanky underground of good eats and high times, delivered speakeasy-style. The dining room is walled with lustrous, ebony-adobe, and the tables are clothed in crisp, black and white linens. By the glass or bottle, there’s plenty of quality hooch. (Or, for an additional $10, the staff will happily pour a vintage from the adjoining liquor store.) The menu is classic steakhouse stuff, with beef tournedos in a silky demi-glace, fresh fish and a damn fine veal Oscar. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) Add a Review Albuquerque - Old Town Seasons Rotisserie & GrillLunch: Mon-Fri: 11:30am-2:30pm Dinner: Mon-Thurs: 5-10pm
Fri-Sat: 5-11pm
Closed Sunday (subject to change) $$$ • Vegetarian Available • Booze Served • Full Bar • Wine Bar • Catering • Live Music • Outdoor Patio • Wireless Internet • Credit Cards Full review: Fine dining is always in season (3/11/2010)
Seasons’ rooftop patio is one of our favorite wine-drinking destinations, especially when it’s nice out. There are heaters up there for chilly nights, the courtyard fountain provides a calming gurgle, the view of the mountains is great and the happy hour menu has outstanding dishes at more than reasonable prices. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) View/Add Reviews [ 1 ] Albuquerque - UniversityRasoi’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.
Subzi bhajia
, chopped cauliflower, potatoes and spinach fried in chickpea batter, is light and crisp. 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—mellow and rich, the pieces of dark meat are so tender you could cut them with the back of a spoon. (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 |   
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