    | Albuquerque Restaurants with Lounge 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 ] Albuquerque - Far Northeast HeightsPacific Rim is a restaurant displaying attention to detail, from its carefully executed decor to its exceedingly well-rounded menu. Appetizers like meaty sake clams in a garlicky broth cause the diner’s expectations to rise, and entrées like the fantastically named "evil jungle prince curry" deliver heat balanced by intoxicating fragrance. It’s basically two restaurants in one—a sushi bar and Korean
bulgogi
with a
dining room that brings all the elements together. And did we mention the Buddha Lounge? The small bar stays open late, turning out sake-based cocktails alongside sushi and TV. Try the ginseng, date and honey tea! (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) View/Add Reviews [ 5 ] Albuquerque - I-25 Corridor Torinos' @ HomeTue-Sat (breakfast/lunch): 8 am-2:30 pm
Fri-Sat (dinner): 5:30-9pm
Closed Sundays and Mondays (subject to change) Read more: Locovore: A flawless meal @ Torinos’ @ Home (8/18/2011)
Torinos’ is owned by Maxime and Daniela Bouneou (a husband-and-wife team from Nice, France, and Torino, Italy, respectively), and their Northern Italian restaurant is the next best thing to a plane ticket to Occitania’s northeast corner. Everything is made from scratch, and ingredients are sourced as locally as possible. The
pappardelle all’Amatriciana
— fresh, house-made wide linguine tossed in a light tomato sauce with pecorino
,
chile, olives and
guanciale
bacon
—
is a glorious bowl of pasta. In the guilty pleasures department, the foie gras would satisfy the itch of the most jaded addicts. Don’t pass up the
spezzatino,
a slowly braised beef brisket served with seared polenta cubes. There’s also half-melted mallard duck confit served with cranberry rhubarb compote. Drop in for à la carte breakfast and lunch, or book a table for dinner service—a $36, six-course set menu. Vegetarians and other food restrictions can be accommodated, Maxime says, but it’s best if they call ahead. “Then we can make something special.” (Alibi Staff, February 2, 2011) Add a Review Albuquerque - MidtownIn the grand style of down-home New Mexican comfort food, just about everything here is smothered in chile and cheese. House specialties include fajitas, stuffed sopaipillas and enchiladas. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) Add a Review Albuquerque - Nob Hill 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 ]  Scalo Northern Italian GrillLunch: Mon-Sun: 11am-2:30pm
Dinner: Mon-Thurs: 5-10pm
Fri-Sat: 5-11pm
Sun: 5-9pm (subject to change) $$$ • Vegetarian Available • Booze Served • Full Bar • Wine Bar • Catering • Live Music • Outdoor Patio • Wireless Internet • Credit Cards • Lounge
The surprising thing about Scalo is that it’s simultaneously more pleasant and less expensive than you’d think. It’s just as breezy and classy as ever in its high-ceilinged dining room, while the patio will have a nice, long season of pleasant weather. Now serving brunch on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and there’s plenty of fresh-pressed espresso to sip with it. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) Add a Review Albuquerque - North Valley Sadie’sCuisine: New Mexican
Walking into Sadie's is like walking into your rich old New Mexican aunt’s house. The food smells good, the atmosphere is comfortable and it's OK if you get a little loud. Sadie's has a very friendly and casual (yet still professional) staff and huge portions of food. We like to go for dinner with a big group and drink Margaritas. And salsa. (Yes, we drink the salsa. It’s that good here.) (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) View/Add Reviews [ 12 ] Albuquerque - Northeast HeightsVoted Burque’s Best Steakhouse by
Alibi
readers, Paul’s is the kind of place normally associated with slabs of artery-clogging red meat, liver-corroding martinis and (until recently) the freedom to light up during dinner. With high-backed banquette seating and intimate mood lighting, it's the perfect date destination—especially if your suitor is paying. Open until 10 p.m. weeknights, 11 p.m. weekends. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) View/Add Reviews [ 10 ] Albuquerque - Old TownHigh Noon Restaurant & SaloonSunday 12pm-9pm
Monday - Saturday 11am-9:30pm (subject to change)
Q BarMon-Thurs: 4-11pm
Fri: 4pm-1:30am
Sat: 6pm-1:30am
Closed Sunday (subject to change) $$$ • Booze Served • Full Bar • Live Music • DJ • Dancing • Wireless Internet • Credit Cards • Lounge
In addition to an upscale selection of booze, the cozy and modern Q Bar serves a brief but pleasantly appetizing menu of nibbles and noshes. The dishes are small enough to make good snacks and expensive enough to keep them that way—you'd have to spend more than you'd like in order to really fill up. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) Add a Review Albuquerque - South Valley Monte Carlo SteakhouseMon-Wed: 11am-9:45pm
Thurs-Sat: 11am-10:30pm
Closed Sunday (subject to change) Best of Burque Restaurants Winner 2008 (10/9/2008)
Come for the Budweiser, stay for the steak. Or stay for the Budweiser, too. This is not your typical country club steak retreat—velvet Elvis, model cars and a revolving pastry case make Monte Carlo your very own Capri Lounge, right here in the Burque. The green-chile cheeseburger is on the money. Open until 11 p.m. weekends. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) Add a Review Albuquerque - SoutheastAh, the bar at Cervantes. It represents Albuquerque as we like to think of it: Unbound by trends, not particularly fashionable, sometimes sketchy but mostly just full of good people. Go when it’s so hot you can’t bear one more minute in the sun. Drink enough margaritas to take the pain away. Then order up some of Cervantes’ home-cooked New Mexican food and eat until you’re stuffed. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) Add a Review Albuquerque - Upper Nob Hill Cosmo TapasMon-Fri 5-10pm
Sat-Sun: 5pm-midnight
Open every day at 3pm for Happy Hour (subject to change) Full review: An international trip, right down to the exchange rate (10/29/2009)
With an ambitious menu of tapas from around the world, the crowd here (especially when there’s live music) is young and diverse. There are bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with goat cheese, lollipop lamb chops with olive tapenade and scallops
al pil-pil
. The mixed drinks are interesting (try the Samba), and the flan will surprise you. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) Add a Review  Desert FishMonday Closed
Tuesday–Sunday 11AM – 11PM (subject to change) Full review: So fresh, you’ll feel the sand between your toes (1/27/2011)
An outpost of the Pacific Northwest, you enter Desert Fish to a front-and-center refrigerated glass display case, in which oysters and Dungeness crab sections are bedded down on crushed ice. You’ll catch onto a wet, salty vibe before you know it. Connoisseurs in search of marine
terroir
will have plenty to obsess about. There’s a rotating menu of oysters on the half-shell; fluffy and crisp crab cakes; seafood-studded cioppino; juicy, charred scallops; giant slabs of Atlantic salmon; one hell of a wine list and a whole lot more. It’ll cost ya, but it’s worth every penny. Open until 11 p.m. every night except Monday (when it’s closed). (Alibi Staff, May 5, 2011) Add a Review Albuquerque - UptownIn the grand style of down-home New Mexican comfort food, just about everything here is smothered in chile and cheese. House specialties include fajitas, stuffed sopaipillas and enchiladas. (Alibi Staff, August 11, 2010) View/Add Reviews [ 1 ] |   
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