  | Westside Restaurants in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico Albuquerque - Westside Keva JuiceMon-Thurs: 7am-9pm
Fri: 7am-10pm
Sat: 8am-10pm
Sun: 9am-8pm (hours can change without notice) Cuisine: Ice Cream/Smoothies/Gelato/Fro-Yo
Keva Juice won Best Smoothies on our restaurant poll every time we ran the category. Despite its corporate veneer, the Keva Juice company is actually based out of New Mexico—and we agree, the product is awesome. It has a dizzying menu of enormous fruity milkshakes (or “smoothies,” to some), all blended up with fruit, frozen yogurt, juice and/or sherbet. And, in some cases, Oreos. Yum. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010)  Knuckleheads Bar & GrillSunday: 11:00-12:00am, Mon-Wed: 11:00am-11:00pm, Thurs-Sat: 11:00am-2:00am (hours can change without notice) 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)  La MichoacanaMon-Thurs: 11am-9pm
Fri-Sun: 11am-9:30pm (hours can change without notice) Cuisine: Ice Cream/Smoothies/Gelato/Fro-Yo
This paleteria sells all kinds of freshly made cold treats like mango and hot-cold-sweet-salty-sour chile paletas (popsicles), strawberries with cream and nonalcoholic piña coladas. Of course, you can still satisfy your sweet tooth at the original La Michoancana, which is just south of Isleta and Rio Bravo. Either way, it’s worth the drive. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) Le Café Miche BistroTues-Sat: 9:30am-4pm
Closed Sunday & Monday (hours can change without notice)
Breakfast croissants with butter and marmalade, a quiche du jour or a rich seafood crepe—this place has French cuisine down pat, but the prices won’t have you screaming “non, non!” There are daily specials and desserts, and if a crepe with ice cream and rum-marinated cherries doesn’t turn you on, then nothing will. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) Little Anita's menu is New Mexican to the core, with enchiladas, burritos, carne adovada and stuffed sopaipillas. The red chile is generally milder than their green but is seasoned just right. Consistency, generous portions and fair prices make Little Anita's an Albuquerque mainstay—not to mention its many locations ranging from full-service dining to quick and easy take-out counters. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010)  Mariscos AltamarWed-Sat 8am-10pm
Sun-Tue 8am-9pm (hours can change without notice) Full review: Mariscos Altamar review (3/1/2007)
This Westside gem awards patrons with steamy, heaping plates of Mexican seafood in a clean, cozy dining area. Breakfast, lunch or dinner, it's usually pretty hopping, though there's always a seat and prompt service. Try the shrimp or crab quesadilla, with just the right balance of cheese and seafood. The cocktails have delicious shrimp (even octopus) served in their own juices with hunks of avocado, spices and onion. When the menu warns you something's going to be hot, it really is. You can always cool off with an order of homemade flan. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) Las Islitas stakes its claim on just one noble pursuit—the seafood-heavy cuisine of Mexico’s Central Pacific state of Nayarit. The food is simple, delicious and authentic, having clearly evolved in a place where the raw ingredients are good and fresh. No culinary tap-dancing is necessary. Brothy, aromatic soups and fish-filled empanadas are a few must-haves, and even the unsavory sounding dishes such as camarones a la cucaracha (“cockroach” shrimp) are surprisingly delicious. You will definitely leave with a full panza. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010)  Mimmo’s Ristorante & PizzeriaMon-Thurs: 11am-9pm
Fri-Sat: 11am-10pm
Sun: 11am-9pm (hours can change without notice) Full review: It’s a family thing (6/5/2008)
A New York-Italian setting so authentic, Don Corleone would feel comfortable. Co-owner Sal Cerami has compiled a simple list that’s better than those found at most small Italian restaurants. It won’t win a Wine Spectator Award, but that’s not his goal. Cerami’s love and excitement for wine is contagious as he mills around the tables selling bottles of Chianti. The real treat is having him personally recommend your wine—somehow, Cerami always finds a hidden jewel stashed away, as though he were saving it just for you. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010)
A Westside gem, Nicky V’s casual atomsphere, beer selection and brick oven fired pizza make it a great antidote to the inevitable Paseo del Norte/Coors traffic snarls just outside the window. The usual pizza suspects are well represented, from Margherita to campania, but you’d be remiss to not try the Buffalo chicken pizza at least once. (Alibi Staff, April 14, 2011) Pelican’s RestaurantMon-Thurs: 5-10:30pm
Fri-Sat: 5-11:30pm
Sun: 11am-10pm
*Bar opens every day at 4pm (hours can change without notice)
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)
You’ll probably have to battle full parking lots and at least a moderate wait, but these delays, annoying as they may be, are one of the best “reviews” a restaurant could hope for. Inside, the dim lighting and rustic décor easily fade away when an enormous pile of tender, saucy meat appears before you. The menu is huge, with a seemingly endless combination of meats in varying proportions. The almost heat-free sauce is tangy and sweet but mellow enough to go down nice and easy without a pucker. Friends of the sausage will love the hot links; well-spiced and smoky dogs with a delightful snap. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) The pulled pork at Rudy’s makes us drool like dogs under the dinner table. Heaped up between two slices of pillowy white bread and kissed with sauce, it is absolute hog heaven. Rudy’s dining room takes “Spartan” to a new level, but as the weather improves so does our opinion of sitting out on their covered patio. Rudy’s wins Best Barbecue every year in our restaurant poll. What are you waiting for? Now serving meaty breakfast tacos! (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) Sidelines Sports Grille & BarMon-Sat: 11am-2am, Sun: 10am-midnight (hours can change without notice)
Sushi KingMon-Thurs: 11am-9:30pm
Fri: 11am-11pm
Sat: noon-11pm
Sun: 11am-9pm (hours can change without notice)
Sushi south of Cottonwood Mall? Yessir, the Westside's getting better all the time. Fight the fern bars with a mix of noodle dishes, rolls, nigiri and sashimi in an almost retro-diner environment. Try a monkeyball with a pot of tea before you hit the movie theater. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010)  Thai Cuisine ILunch:
Mon-Sat 11 am-3 pm, Dinner:
Mon-Sat 5-9 pm
Sun 4-8 pm (hours can change without notice) Full review: So very special (3/31/2011)
Thank you, Jeebus, for making the Westside’s only Thai restaurant a great one. The stir-fried wide noodle dishes are a hit, as are many of the salads (try the mango salad, if it’s available, or the lovely seafood salad). All of the rice-accompanied dishes at Thai Cuisine allow you to upgrade from jasmine to a short-grained, flavorful brown. The lunch specials are a steal. (Alibi Staff, November 1, 2010) Tomato CafeLunch: Mon-Sun: 11:00am-2:30pm
Dinner: Mon-Thurs: 5-8:30pm
Fri-Sat: 5-9pm
Sun: 5-8pm (hours can change without notice)
New location! One of you wants pizza, another insists on soup and salad, the third won’t eat anything but pasta. Don’t waste time fighting; just get on over to Tomato Cafe. It’s quick, inexpensive and all-you-can-eat. Those aren’t usually words you’d use to describe genuinely good food but the pizza here is. Super-thin-crusted and topped with things like feta, basil, barbecued chicken and artichoke hearts, it’s a dream come true (except for Chicago-style fans). (Alibi Staff, April 14, 2011) | 
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