Gone but not forgotten

I dropped into the Frontier this morning for the express purpose of purchasing a pile of their praline cookies. I once had a room mate who subsisted on these marvels of the culinary world, and soon found myself buying them by the dozen. It's obviously been some time since I had one (or twenty) since Frontier hasn't made the cookies in over a year! Sigh. I got a sweet roll instead but ended up giving it away. I did treat myself to a cup of their fresh-squeezed orange juice, leading me to ponder one of the many legends surrounding the Frontier: do they really add Tang to the orange juice?

Perhaps I'll add a category to the "anything we forgot" section in Alibi's 2012 Best of Burque Restaurants poll: Most Missed Cookie in Albuquerque. Voting ends September Fourth at high noon. Vote Now!

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Photo by Michael Stern, editor of roadfood.com

I totally see religious symbols in there.

It’s been open for four decades. How long have you been striding atop its brown-tiled floors? I know more than one person whose first solid food was a Frontier tortilla.

This week Toby Smith interviewed longtime patrons of the UNM area’s favorite eatery. It’s a great read because most good stories are stories about people.

... there are the regulars, habitués addicted to shambling the lunch-hour queue, mulling the mélange of artwork, searching the diners for a familiar face.

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Do Western-style hashbrowns beckon you at all hours of the night? Or maybe it’s John Wayne, smiling slightly, his image called forth by hundreds of nails. Do you hole up in a corner booth in the glow of your laptop with sweet butter from a Frontier roll glistening around your lips? Have you, when broke, calculated which menu item costs the least but weighs the most? Do you read ¡Ask a Mexican! while waiting for your number to appear on the digital screen?

Have your feet crossed this UNM staple’s threshold for, literally, decades? We want to hear from you. Email marisa@alibi.com.

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Posted to Alibi's Flickr photo pool by member Cronopio?.

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