Albuquerque - Uptown
Abq Grill
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Alien Brewpub
Sun 10am-midnight, Mon-Sat 11am-midnight (hours can change without notice)
Previously known as ABQ Brew Pub, this establishment puts a laser focus on quality brews and makes sure every customer has a truly out-of-this-world experience. The space has high ceilings reminiscent of an upscale ski lodge bar with less colorful sweaters. You’d never know it shares a wall with Uptown Sports Bar. Alien Brew Pub’s kitchen boasts ahi tuna with a wasabi cilantro dressing and crème brûlée made with vanilla bean custard topped with carmelized sugar. Ten taps host Sierra Blanca and Rio Grande offerings, available in 10-, 16- or 22-ounce glasses.
| | | | | 2.94 rating (18 votes) |
B2B2 Barrio Uptown
B2B2 makes some bomb street-style tacos. From the handmade tortillas to the specialty sauces, everything is prepared in-house. Each taco is paired with a complementary sauce that creates a mouthwatering savory treat. The tacos arrive at your table on a variety of house made tortillas of the day selection from lime, cilantro, saffron, chipotle spinach and blue corn with garnish of pickled carrots and onions, along with julenne sliced radishes, and jicama. All of these components deliberately put together create a burst of different flavors and textures in your mouth. What about drinks? Dont sweat it. B2B2 has 60 award winning local craft beers on tap at one place with 6 different margaritas. Happy hour is Monday-Friday 3-6pm, when drinks start at $3. Each Saturday there’s live music on the patio.
| | | | | 5 rating (1 vote) |
Billiard Palace
Mon-Sat 11am-2am
Sun noon-midnight (hours can change without notice)
Happy Hour!: 11:00am - 6:00pmThis establishment does not yet have a description. Would you like to contribute one? Use the 'Any other notes' blank.
| | | | | 2.96 rating (73 votes) |
Blake’s Lotaburger
Cuisine: American
A New Mexico tradition since 1952! For an award-winning (for both Best Burger and Best French Fries), quick burger or chili dog, fresh fries and fountain favorites that hit the spot for just a pocketful of change, it’s got to be Blake’s. Countless counters are scattered throughout the city, and each one is a model of efficiency and cleanliness. Why look any further?
| | | | | 5 rating (2 votes) |
Cake Fetish
Mon-Fri: 10am-6pm
Sat: 10am-5pm
Closed Sunday (hours can change without notice)
Cake Fetish is a boutique bakery with a singular passion for cupcakes (it won 2nd place for Best Cupcakes in the 2016 Best of Burque Restaurants poll). Not only that, the shop makes teeny, tiny ones—dense, two-bite buttons of cake, so you can comfortably roll through 30 flavor concepts like Velvet Elvis, (red velvet cake with cream cheese icing) or the minty, dark-chocolate Grasshopper, mounded with fluffy French buttercream. Regular-sized cupcakes also available.
| | | | | 1.63 rating (76 votes) |
Cheese and Coffee
Mon-Fri: 10am-3:00pm
Sat: 10:30am-2:00pm
Closed Sunday (hours can change without notice)
Meals Served: Lunch
We love this strange little place with aggressively retro décor, like super ’70s wood paneling. Cool. Plus, they serve New York deli stuff like bagels with lox and cream cheese, and a club with dill Havarti on rye bread, as well as a selection of German favorites. Our favorite option is the salad trio—you get to pick from Caesar, Greek, apple Waldorf, pasta, potato, fruit, tuna, chicken or egg salads, and it comes with a roll.
| | | | | 4.17 rating (18 votes) |
The Daily Grind
Mon-Sat: 7am-8pm
Sun: 8am-3pm (hours can change without notice)
Owner Nancy Rogers still makes at least two flavors of mouthwatering scones every morning, and it’s a full service restaurant that serves booze. In addition to the scones, make sure you try the green chile pocket or the steak and frites.
Read more: First Taste (5/3/2007)
Full review: An Albuquerque original resurfaces ()
| | | | | 4.41 rating (35 votes) |
The Egg & I
Mon-Fri 6am-2:30pm
Sat-Sun 7am-2:30pm (hours can change without notice)
Sure, it’s a chain, but there’s only one New Mexico location, and when you’re in Uptown and you need, need, need a fluffed up, butter-battered masterpiece of a waffle that could have been carved from the griddle by Michelangelo himself, well, you aren’t going to do much better than this jaunty little breakfast cafe. There’s even green chile on the menu, so maybe we could all just pretend that they’re locals, just this once?
| | | | | 3 rating (3 votes) |
Elephant Bar Restaurant
Sun-Thu: 11am-10pm, Fri-Sat: 11am-11pm (hours can change without notice)
Happy Hour!: 3:00pm - 7:00pmIf you’re in the Uptown Mall and in need of a bite to eat, and perhaps an elephant safari, Elephant Bar might be your ticket. OK, so the elephants aren’t real, and you can’t ride on them, but the large dining room is full of carvings and sculptures of them, even more than palm trees. The food is Americanized Asian mishmash, with good salads and seafood. An organic green salad with walnuts and creamy gorgonzola is large, tasty and simple in a good way. The wood grilled trout with lobster sauce is pure joy to eat. Even better is the ahi tuna salad, available as both entrée and appetizer sized, which consists of slices of seared fish atop a pile of seaweed and salad greens, with pickled ginger, wasabi and green sesame seeds.
| | | | | 2 rating (3 votes) |
Eloy’s Mexican Restaurant
Mon-Thurs: 11am-8pm
Fri-Sat: 11am-9pm
Closed Sunday (hours can change without notice)
Cuisine: New Mexican
Eloy’s has complete dinners for about $10 where you get an entrée, guacamole salad, chips and salsa, sopaipillas, dessert, and tea or coffee, and the family vibe is a welcome change from fakey-sweet chain service. The red chile is hot, the green is hotter and the sweet natilla custard will cool you down quicker than an Otter Pop on the sidewalk.
Full review: Meals that will complete you ()
| | | | | 3.73 rating (11 votes) |
Flying Star Café
Sun-Thurs: 6:30am-9:30pm
Fri-Sat: 6:30am-10pm
Sun: 7am-9pm (hours can change without notice)
Sure, you go in thinking you’ll be good and get a skinny latte, scrambled local 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. This Duke City fixture prides itself on using locally sourced ingredients like eggs and greens and offers free coffee refills. Beware the irresistible carrot cake.
| | | | | 2.31 rating (13 votes) |
Frost, A Gelato Shoppe
Sun-Thurs:11am-10pm
Fri-Sat: 11am-11pm (hours can change without notice)
Cuisine: Ice Cream/Smoothies/Gelato/Fro-Yo
At Frost, get a taste of the finest authentic Italian gelatos and sorbets. The extensive menu can be overwhelming but the cheery owners and staff are readily available to offer suggestions and samples. The shop offers classic flavors like vanilla and mint chocolate chip along with unique ones like chai tea and crema di biscotti in your choice of a cup or a waffle, sugar or mini sugar cone.
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Garduño’s
Mon-Wed: 11am-10pm
Thu-Sat: 11am-11pm
Sun: 10:30am-10pm (hours can change without notice)
Complimentary Buffet: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmSUNDAY BRUNCH FIESTA! Just $12.95!: every Sunday 10:30 am - 3:00 pm
Happy Hour! Drink Specials: 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Happy Hour! MARGARITA MADNESS featuring $4.99 Margaritas!: 3:00 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!
Full review: Garduños rules the Heights ()
| | | | | 1.67 rating (6 votes) |
Japanese Kitchen Steakhouse & Sushi Bar
Mon-Sat: 11:30am-2:30pm
Mon-Thu: 5:30pm-9:30pm
Fri-Sat: 5:30pm-10:30pm
Closed Sunday (hours can change without notice)
They share one name, but this is actually two separate dining rooms across a courtyard from each other. Take the kids to the one with the teppan grills; it's livelier. Take your date to the sushi bar and get a booth. Feed each other deep-fried shrimp heads.
Full review: Hidden treasures await ()
| | | | | 3.05 rating (43 votes) |
The Jealous Fork
Monday-Saturday: 11am-8pm (hours can change without notice)
I personally loved the flour tortilla herbed chicken, which I had doused in red and tomatillo with diced tomato, an over-medium fried egg, menonita and Mexican jack. The chicken was juicy and tender with a little bit of herb flavor coming through but mostly being a nice surprise within the beautiful mess of cheese and chile. Speaking of, the cheese servings are about the greatest thing in the world here. They do not skimp when it comes to the cheese, so be prepared for an small overload of gooey, melted heaven across the top of your enchiladas, and soon after, the roof of your mouth. The chile itself has a stellar kick to it, without leaving you begging for water, plus the tomatillo sauce gives it a little bit more smoothness, rounding off the profile nicely.
Full review: The Jealous Fork Gives You the Power To Make the Perfect Dish ()
Alibi recommends: The enchiladas! Really, it’s to your own tastes.
Vibe: Local food in the ever more industrialized Uptown area.
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Krung Thai
Mon-Fri: 11am-9pm
Sat: 12pm-9pm
Sun: 4pm-8pm (hours can change without notice)
This restaurant has a humble exterior that belies its devilishly good food. Krung Thai’s menu offers delights like crispy, garlicky frog legs, creamy curries, delicate soups and huge, bright salads. They also have an absolutely astounding dessert of housemade coconut ice cream over warm sticky rice, garnished with roasted peanuts. You must save room for dessert. This stuff is to die for! Look for Krung Thai next to Flying Star Café.
Full review: Thai spice and a very mad fish ()
| | | | | 3.35 rating (23 votes) |
Le Peep
Mon-Fri: 6:30am-2pm
Sat-Sun: 7am-2pm (hours can change without notice)
Cuisine: American
An excellent place to take your grandparents to brunch. The menu offers huevos rancheros, breakfast burritos, eggs Benedict, a variety of Belgian waffles and a full espresso bar, among other items. Breakfast and lunch are served all day. Don’t miss out on the dreamy seafood crepe!
| | | | | 5 rating (2 votes) |
Los Cuates
Cuisine: New Mexican
In the grand style of down-home New Mexican comfort food, just about everything here—selected as the Best New Mexican Restaurant in Albuquerque in past reader polls—is smothered in chile and cheese. House specialties include fajitas, stuffed sopaipillas, enchiladas and Indian tacos. Should you worry about getting fat? Naaah. They’re bound to come up with a "chile ’n’ cheese diet" any day now.
| | | | | 3.67 rating (4 votes) |
Louie's Pub & Grill
Mon - Thurs: 11:00 am - 2:00 am (Kitchen 11:00 am - 10:00 pm), Fri - Sat: 11:00 am - 2:00 am (Kitchen 11:00 am - 11:00 pm), Sun: 12:00 pm - 12:00 am (Kitchen 12:00 pm - 10:00 pm) (hours can change without notice)
Cuisine: Bar and Grill/Pub
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| | | | | 3.9 rating (10 votes) |
