Restaurants in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico near Century Rio
Albuquerque - Far Northeast Heights
Tomato Cafe
$ • Vegetarian Available • Booze Served • Wine Bar • Craft Beer • Wine • Delivery • Catering • Take Out / To-Go • Wireless Internet
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).
 | | | |  | 3.66 rating (58 votes) |
Vintage Four Twenty-Three Wine Bar
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| | | | | 2.83 rating (35 votes) |
Albuquerque - I-25 Corridor
Hadley's Tea
Mon-Fri: 7am-5pm
Sat: 10am-2pm
Sun: Closed (hours can change without notice)
Cuisine: Coffee/Tea/Espresso
This friendly staff serves freshly brewed pure and natural teas along with coffee, pastries, and meals like salads and sandwiches.
| | | | | 3.04 rating (25 votes) |
Nativo Lodge
Cuisine: New Mexican
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| | | | | 3.47 rating (17 votes) |
Nexus Brewery
Mon-Thu: 11am-9:30pm
Fri-Sat: 11am-10pm
Sun: 11am-8:30pm (hours can change without notice)
$$ • Booze Served • Wine Bar • Craft Beer • Growler refills • Take Out / To-Go • Live Music • Outdoor Patio • Wireless Internet • Dog-Friendly
This brewery has quite a following, both for the beer and as a “New Mexican soul food” gastropub. The menu offers specialties like New Orleans-style gumbo and the delicious marriage of chicken and waffles. It’s just the place to take your corn-bread-and-Frito-pie-craving friends while still getting your craft beer fix.
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| | | | | 4.08 rating (103 votes) |
Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen
Fri-Sat 11 am - 11 pm
Sun 11-8 (hours can change without notice)
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| | | | | 3.6 rating (60 votes) |
Pars Cuisine
Mon-Thurs: 11am-9pm
Fri-Sat: 11am-10pm
Sun: 5pm-9pm (hours can change without notice)
$$$ • Vegetarian Available • Gluten-free available • Booze Served • Wine Bar • Craft Beer • Catering • Take Out / To-Go • Outdoor Patio • Wireless Internet
For something a little more out of the ordinary, pay a visit to Pars Cuisine, the Persian restaurant near the Century Rio 24 theater. Vegetarians will appreciate the nonmeat options and meat lovers are sure to love the spicy kabobs. Linger on your floor cushions while belly dancers roam through the dining room.
Full review: Pars balances the exotic and the comfortable ()
| | | | | 3.31 rating (50 votes) |
Sandia Grill and High Desert Lounge
Cuisine: American
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| | | | | 3.06 rating (17 votes) |
Starr Brothers Brewing
Sun noon-10pm, Mon-Wed 11am-10pm, Thu-Sat 11am-11pm (hours can change without notice)
Craving beer and a cheeseburger? Check. How about pork belly mac and cheese? Check. This local brewery is a great spot for lunch, meetups or just taking a breather after work.
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Sushi King
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| | | | | 2.85 rating (26 votes) |
Torinos’ @ Home
Monday- Saturday 11am- 9pm
Closed Sunday (hours can change without notice)
Cuisine: Italian
If you want fancy food but don’t feel like getting all gussied up, give Torinos’ a try. The food here is where all the energy goes, from authentic recipes to fresh, local ingredients, you can tell that the owners care about what you’re putting in your mouth. They even serve local wines and beers! We recommend the beef cheek manicotti that’s been braised for five hours. Yum.
| | | | | 5 rating (1 vote) |
Twisters
Mon-Fri: 6am-3pm
Sat: 7am-2pm
Closed Sunday (hours can change without notice)
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| | | | | 3 rating (2 votes) |
Vic’s Daily Café
Mon-Fri: 6:30am-2:30pm
Sat-Sun: 7:30am-2pm (hours can change without notice)
If you like chicken-fried steak, then you owe it to your belly to eat at Vic’s. A chef friend of ours turned us on to Vic’s, where the “Big Grill” is a giant, sliced, savory roast beef with bacon that will make your eyes light up and your stomach say “howdy.” Seriously, some of the best we’ve ever had. The rest of the menu is classic diner fare (meat loaf, liver and onions) with a large selection of sandwiches and New Mexican and Greek dishes. With seven different omelette options, your brunch just leveled up.
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| | | | | 4.03 rating (12 votes) |
Waffle Wich
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Weck’s
Weck’s, oh Weck’s, what would we do without your bottomless drinks, your enormous portions, and your sausage and gravy? How we long to return for another “bowl o’ papas” filled with hash browns, cheese, green chile and an over-easy egg. How we dream at night of your belly-bustin’ biscuits and gravy for breakfast and lunch.
| | | | | 2.67 rating (16 votes) |
Weekdays Restaurant
Mon-Fri 7am-2pm
Sat-Sun Closed (hours can change without notice)
We oftenly find ourselves walking into Weekdays repeating, “Just the protein plate. Just the protein plate,” then hear the words, “Morning cheese steak with two chocolate chip cookies and a coffee, please!” and have no regrets; it’s all affordable, delicous food served with a smile.
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Albuquerque - Midtown
Canteen Brewhouse
Sun-Thu: noon-10pm
Fri-Sat: noon-midnight (hours can change without notice)
$ • Vegetarian Available • Booze Served • Wine Bar • Craft Beer • Growler refills • Take Out / To-Go • Outdoor Patio • Wireless Internet • Dog-Friendly
Cask Conditioned Ale: every Wednesday 2:00 pm - 10:00 pmCanteen Brewhouse picks up where the Il Vicino Vassar taproom left off. The canteen is spacious, and so is its shaded patio filled with picnic benches—a comfortable spot to enjoy the brew, regular live music and a casual menu. There’s no pizza here, but there are satisfying sandwiches. As always, the ingredients are top-notch, the microbrews are award-winning, and the home-brewed root beer float is a real treat.
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| | | | | 4.2 rating (68 votes) |
The Craftroom
Cider lovers, cry no more, we’ve found your hard cider haven. Beer drinkers shan’t fret, they offer craft beers, as well. Don’t forget to try their house pizza! (We like it with corned beef and onion.)
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Napoli Coffee
Mon-Fri 6am-6pm
Sat 7am-5pm
Sun 8am-3pm (hours can change without notice)
This is the kind of friendly, local and, above all, comfortable coffee shop that has become a rare breed since the caffeine-laced heyday of the mid-’90s. Napoli Coffee offers a warm and inviting sitting area that makes it a perfect hangout spot on a chilly winter’s day. You can pick up all the usual espresso drinks here as well as sandwiches, burritos and pastries.
| | | | | 3.5 rating (6 votes) |
Pho 79 Vietnamese Restaurant
Cuisine: Vietnamese
This is a no-frills kind of place, but if you like Vietnamese food and don’t particularly care about atmosphere, you should definitely seek it out. The pho is bolstering and wholesome, and the beef tendon is spectacular. From time to time, they’ve even been known to fly in mass quantities of crawfish for your tail-eating, head-sucking pleasure.
Full review: Pho 79 ()
| | | | | 3.67 rating (3 votes) |
