Huevos Rancheros are a Nuevo Mexicano delicacy made possible by the eating habits of hangry ranch-hands. Commanding cows or shadowing sheep is hard damn work, so the first thing to do every morning is to load up on carbs. Huevos Rancheros—fried eggs, chile and cheese fronting a couple of buried flour or corn tortillas—are just the thing for a quick and hearty brekkie on the range. Which by the way is also the name of the best place to get ’em in this here town, ma’am. (AM)2) Garcia’s Kitchen3) Frontier Restaurant
Best Of Burque Restaurants 2017 Best Breakfast Burrito
At Golden Pride, a wide variety of choices are associated with scrambled eggs. They fill a tortilla that’s big enough to also have room for stuffings of all sorts, like yummy meats, green chile, salsa, cheese, bacon or hashbrowns. Eater’s pursue their fill up fantasy at this joint referring to the burritos directly by number. Get to know the #2 (hashbrowns, carne adovada and cheese) if you wanna go native. (AM)2) Blake’s Lotaburger3) Frontier Restaurant
Best Of Burque Restaurants 2017 Best Pancakes
How’s about some flapjacks, son? In the words of the Grand Wazoo, “They’re so light and fluffy brown, they’re the finest in the town!” Pancakes are another form of cowpoke food whose comfort and ease of readiness crept into popular culture eating habits after the second world war. Here in Burque our scouts took off from camp and came back to report that the best they had came from there; the Crazy Good Hotcakes—blueberries, brie and all—more than passed muster. (AM)2) Tie: Range Café/Wecks 3) Grove Cafe & Market
Best Of Burque Restaurants 2017 Best Waffles
Best Waffles: Tia B’s La Waffleria/Tia Betty Blue’s
Dudes, this place is, like, all waffles all the time. They have sweet waffles. They make savory waffles. Everything is handmade and they’ve got batters that range from blue corn to buttermilk to buckwheat and vegan ricey-coconut. Syrups, fresh fruit and a host of other accompaniments really do make this UNM-area restaurant into waffle heaven. (AM)2) Le Peep
Best Of Burque Restaurants 2017 Best Eggs
Known for being members of the Burque breakfast vanguard with a saucy selection of poached eggs that always come with a kale salad—as well as lip-smacking add-ons like imported prosciutto or roasted asparagus—The Grove Cafe & Market also does a majestic organic egg white frittata that boasts arugula and pecorino cheese in support rolls. Yum! (AM)2) Le Peep3) Range Café
Best Of Burque Restaurants 2017 Best Healthy Breakfast
Reader respondents were probably thinking “egg white frittata here—see above, but they would probably also want to go on and on about the über-healthy entrées like smoked salmon with capers and cream cheese, avocado toast with a hardboiled egg or Edo’s Best BLT, featuring real English cucumber. Are you hungry yet? The Grove is waiting … (AM)2) Annapurna’s World Vegetarian Café
Best Of Burque Restaurants 2017 Best Coffee/Espresso
What’s a locally envisioned, hipster-centric craft coffee house doing across the street from the Starbuck’s on Lomas and Washington? Kicking the corporate coffee man’s arse. Check out Humble, it is a humble place after all, designed with caffeine cravers in mind. BoBR respondents dig their single-origin espresso and you should too. They’re in one of the coolest OG Burque/UNM hoods too; go get your dark beans and brew at Humble. (AM)2) Satellite Coffee3) Michael Thomas Coffee
Best Of Burque Restaurants 2017 Best Brunch
Grove brunch action items. Ahem. The nature of brunch: Carmel Pear French Toast, Potato-Ale Soup topped with Chives, a sandwich with pimento cheese, roasted Berkshire pork, red onion, arugula and a fried egg on brioche, Fresh squeezed Mimosas … help I don’t think I can stop myself—especially if they bring out the Veggie-Lentil Soup with local goat cheese and fresh herbs! (AM)2) Tie: Range Café/Scalo Northern Italian Grill
Best Of Burque Restaurants 2017 Best Chicken Fried Steak
Take a slab of good beef, roll it around in flour then submerge it in a light batter. Then throw the whole lot into a hot and ready frying pan. Serve with cream gravy and black pepper. Or heck, just head on over to Vick’s and let them do it for you. I promise you won’t regret it and our readers’ just happen to agree, so there. (AM)2) Range Café3) Vic’s Daily Cafe
Best Of Burque Restaurants 2017 Best Hash Browns/Homefries
Weck’s wins and it should come as no surpise. The amount of shredded, golden-fried potato bits they serve up every day practically guarantee that such tasty experiences lead to excellence. Their serving size—ginormous—adds to the gastronomic greatness of perfect potatoes available to patron’s of this growing eating enterprise. (AM)2) Range Café3) Frontier Restaurant
