Sadie’s

I don't dig their salty, cheese-laden food. And those cubed potatoes instead of rice? Yuck. Almost every person in there seems to be about 50 pounds overweight. I wonder why.

But (and this is a big "but") every margarita I've ever had there has been brutally potent. So the so-so food is a fairly small price to pay for the rad cocktails.

Every time I have been to Sadies it has been glutton fest, I could split one plate with the family and there would be leftovers. Not my favorite restaurant, but not much compares to Taco Bell.

maybe it is an age thing [thang]; I dunno.

usta love Sadies in the bowling alley, course I was a kollege studint then, and I couldn't afford to order much.

Now it seems that the salsa has too much heat, the kind of heat that does NOT enhance the flavor, the prices are to high [by a bunch accordin' to my food quality/$ paradigm].

The booze is good [margaritas and beer too], although I felt the drinks and cervecas we had last time added way, way, too much to the bill.

Then again, maybe I just lost count.

Mediocre-at-best tourist crap; the chile lacks flavor or temperature (rating only around 5,000-10,000 scovile), and the food overall is frequently covered in cheese to hide the fact that they just flat don't know the proper way to prepare it.

There are literally dozens of restaurants that are better than this travesty masquerading as New Mexican food, among them being Duran's, Charley's, and Mary & Tito's. Or just drive to Santa Fe and go to The Shed or La Choza. Sadie's, quite frankly, is inedible by comparison.

That being said, the story of Sadie's is also a somewhat tragic one, at least for people with taste buds. They used to be a fantastic little place just down the street in a bowling alley. They were, in fact, some of the best food in town. The instant they reveled in their success and built the larger tourist-trap location, they became the pre-fab cookie-cutter faux-New Mexican place they now are.