Mexican Chocolate Martini

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505 Spirits Spicy Green Chile Margarita

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New Mexico Negroni

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A Toast to Spirited Women

UNTIL THE 1960S, MANY STATES DID not permit a woman without a male escort to sit at a bar, never mind take her seriously as a spirits aficionado. Ironically, women are credited with fermenting grains…

Everyone is Family at El Paragua

LARRY AND PETE ATENCIO began selling their mother’s tacos and tamales from a roadside stand in Española in 1958, launching an extraordinary culinary journey for the family of nine siblings and their…

Tikka Spice Fires Up Your Taste Buds

FOR NEW MEXICO FOOD HISTORIANS, the moment was unprecedented. Last fall, Tikka Spice did what no other restaurant had done: The four-year-old Albuquerque food truck took home the triple crown of…

Try These 25 Classic New Mexico Restaurants

Click here for an enlarged version of this map. BIBO BAR & GRILLE Bibo Tucked inside an adobe facade off historic Route 66, Bibo Bar & Grille is no stranger to shifting with the times. The original…

El Camino is Here to Serve

W ANITA JONES STARTED WORKING AS A WAITRESS at El Camino Family Restaurant, in Socorro, in 1991. For more than two decades, she served up tasty Frito pie, triple-decker Monte Cristo sandwiches, and…

Honey Drop Cookies

Socorro's Restaurant Is Deliciously Simple

DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION, when she was born, Socorro Herrera’s family ran a grocery and liquor store out of their late-19th-century home in Hernandez. By age 17, she was a young wife with a new…