Restaurants in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico near Cottonwood Stadium 16
Corrales - Food Truck
Fresh, A Mobile Bistro
Sun 9am-2pm, Wed-Fri 10 am-9pm, Sat 9am-9pm; Make reservations (hours can change without notice)
Magically nestled inside a 1955 Fageol Twin Coach bus is a French fine dining restaurant with gold cutlery, burgundy cloth napkins, handpainted wood paneling and soft European cafe music. The price and menu are fixed for the month, but the $50 per person price tag seems like nothing after six courses of delectable food made with fresh, local ingredients. There’s even a waiter, and you can see Chef John Young cooking in the back third of the bus. Reservations required.
 | | |  | | 3.4 rating (5 votes) |
Albuquerque
Perico's
Mon-Fri 9am-9pm
Sat 10am-9pm
Sun 10am-8pm (hours can change without notice)
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| | | | | 3.56 rating (27 votes) |
Albuquerque - Corrales
Flying Star Café
Sun-Thurs: 6am-10pm
Fri-Sat: 6am-11pm (hours can change without notice)
$$ • Vegetarian Available • Gluten-free available • Booze Served • Craft Beer • Wine • Catering • Take Out / To-Go • Wireless Internet • Dog-Friendly
Winner of Best Casual Dining, Best Veggie Burger, Best Toast, Best Healthy Breakfast and Best Desserts in our restaurant polls. Sure, you go in thinking you’ll be good and get a skinny latte, scrambled egg whites and a side of turkey and green chile sausage, but five minutes later somebody’s saying “eclair” and the voice is coming from your mouth. But, boy, do they taste good.
| | | | | 2.86 rating (98 votes) |
Il Vicino
Sun-Thu 11am-11pm
Fri-Sat 11am-midnight (hours can change without notice)
Il Vicino’s thin-crusted, gourmet-topped pizzas are perennial favorites among Alibi readers, but the big salads are equally popular. Order at the register and a server brings the food to your table, making weekday lunches speedy. The open kitchen gives you something to stare at while you wait. Stop in for a quick lunch or a late afternoon microbrew on the patio.
| | | | | 3.91 rating (11 votes) |
Satellite Coffee
$ • Vegetarian Available • Gluten-free available • Take Out / To-Go • Outdoor Patio • Wireless Internet
Satellite serves up not only coffee but also burritos, sandwiches, desserts and pastries. This is a good choice if you need a quick pick-me-up or you’re hungry late--it’s open until at least 9pm most nights. We recommend the black velvet which is a vanilla coffee with five shots of espresso.
| | | | | 3.11 rating (38 votes) |
Albuquerque - North Valley
Casa de Benavidez
Mon-Thu 10:30am-8pm
Fri: 9am-9pm
Sat: 8am-9pm
Sun: 8am-3pm (hours can change without notice)
Cuisine: New Mexican
One of the most beautiful patios in town. Benavidez is way the hell up there in the North Valley, but if you’re looking for a good breakfast burrito or simply someplace to sit and have some chips, queso and a mind-erasing Bloody Mary, this place is worth your time.
Full review: A taste of “old" Placitas in the North Valley ()
| | | | | 4.1 rating (103 votes) |
El Pinto Restaurant & Cantina
Mon-Thurs: 11am-9pm
Fri-Sat: 11am-10pm
Sun: 10:30am-9 pm (Sun Brunch 10:30am-2pm) (hours can change without notice)
Cuisine: New Mexican
$$ • Vegetarian Available • Booze Served • Full Bar • Catering • Take Out / To-Go • Live Music • Outdoor Patio
Touted as New Mexico’s largest restaurant, the North Valley’s El Pinto is best known for its gorgeous, shady environment (perennially Best Patio in our restaurant polls) and award-winning jarred salsa. Try it for margaritas, brunch and a little flan.
Read more: Patio and Happy Hour Guide: Oxygen-Rich Music (6/16/2016)
| | | | | 4.03 rating (98 votes) |
Farm & Table
Dinner hours:
Wed-Thu 5pm-9pm
Fri-Sat 5pm-9pm
Brunch hours:
Sat- Sun 9am-2 pm (hours can change without notice)
The Far North Valley setting is gorgeous, inside and out. (The spacious courtyard overlooks 10 acres of farm field.) The local and organic ingredients are meticulously sourced, and the food is reasonably priced for the level of quality you get. Several salad options and vegetarian entrées make it a perfect place to graze. For brunch, try their carne adovada with eggs. Don’t forget a refreshing dessert of house-made ice cream or a sorbet trio.
Read more: Summer Guide: Make Me Melt (5/5/2016)
| | | | | 4.38 rating (27 votes) |
Albuquerque - Westside
Bittersweets Bakery
Tue-Fri 9am-6pm
Sat 10am-5pm
Closed Sun-Mon (hours can change without notice)
Up to 12 cupcake flavors offered per day, including gluten-free options. Stop in for a cupcake, or enjoy any of their other delicious baked goods. They also make seasonal specials and wedding cakes for your special occasion.
| | | | | 1 rating (1 vote) |
Dion’s Pizza
Sun-Thurs: 10:30am-10pm
Fri-Sat: 10:30am-11pm (hours can change without notice)
Besides having the Best Pizza, according to past Best of Burque Restaurants polls, Dion's also has a wonderful selection of salads (particularly the Greek or any of the “gourmet” salads with fresh greens) and sandwiches (the pastrami is especially good). The pizza is made fresh and you can see them rolling and tossing the dough. Dine in or order takeout.
| | | | | 3.62 rating (13 votes) |
Fai Wong Chinese Restaurant
Cuisine: Chinese
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| | | | | 3.78 rating (9 votes) |
Garduño’s
Lunch & Dinner daily, Brunch Sun. (hours can change without notice)
Happy Hour! Drink Specials: 3:00 pm - 6:00 pmHappy Hour! MARGARITA MADNESS featuring $4.99 Margaritas!: 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
SUNDAY BRUNCH FIESTA! Just $12.95!: every Sunday 10:30 am - 3:00 pm
Complimentary Buffet: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
A long standing New Mexican fixture, Garduño’s knows how to put the real meaning in “happy hour” with their expansive Margarita menu and Margarita flights. Try their Santa Fe blue enchiladas and treat yourself to fried ice cream, served in a sugar tostada bowl and drizzled with honey, the real New Mexican way!
| | | | | 1.4 rating (5 votes) |
Hooters Restaurant
Mon-Thurs-11-11, Fri-Sat-11-12, Sun 11-10 (hours can change without notice)
Cuisine: American
Vegetarian Available • Booze Served • Full Bar • Craft Beer • NM Beer • Delivery • Take Out / To-Go • Live Music • Karaoke • Pool Tables • Outdoor Patio • Smoking Permitted • Wireless Internet
Happy Hour!: every weekday 2:00pm - 6:00pmHappy Hour!: every weekday 9:00pm - 11:00pm
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| | | | | 2.8 rating (15 votes) |
Keva Juice
Mon-Thurs: 8am-8pm
Fri: 8am-9pm
Sat: 9am-9pm
Sun: 10am-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 with our readers, 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.
| | | | | 3 rating (7 votes) |
La Montañita Co-op
Specializing in local, organic and otherwise natural food products, the deli is no exception and doesn’t disappoint in taste or selection. The deli folks will make a hearty sandwich to your liking—or pick up a quick pint of one of the tasty hot or cold spreads and salads. For a delicious vegan dessert, stick with the chocolate Amazon cake, layered with luscious, fudge frosting.
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Lumpy's Burgers
Cuisine: American
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| | | | | 3.33 rating (3 votes) |
Pelican’s Restaurant
Mon-Thurs: 5-10:30pm
Fri-Sat: 5-11:30pm
Sun: 11am-10pm
*Bar opens every day at 4pm (hours can change without notice)
Rough-hewn wood planks lead you into this nautically themed steak and seafood restaurant, which doesn’t start seating for dinner until 5pm. Luckily, happy hour begins at 4pm. 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, 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.
| | | | | 2.17 rating (69 votes) |
Pizza 9
Sun-Thurs: 11am-11pm
Fri-Sat: 11am-midnight (hours can change without notice)
Cuisine: Pizza
Pizza 9, from the former owner of Chicago Beef, slings dough at multiple locations across town. It’s not deep-dish, but the puffed up, buttery crust will warm Midwestern hearts, as will the Fire Eater pie—a monument to capsaicin, it scathes taste buds with pepperoni, jalapeños, green chile and hot giardiniera relish. With gluten-free crust options, it’s a perfect spot for groups with opposing dietary needs, and with several locations, you can have it all delivered right to your front door!
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Rudy’s “Country Store” and Bar-B-Q
Cuisine: Barbecue/Soul Food
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? Don’t forget to try their meaty breakfast tacos!
| | | | | 3.82 rating (17 votes) |
Sushi King
Mon-Thurs: 11am-9:30pm
Fri: 11am-10:30pm
Sat: noon-10:30pm
Sun: 11am-9:30pm (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.
| | | | | 3.18 rating (11 votes) |
