Nancy's Silver Café is a Treasure
WHAT PEOPLE LOVE ABOUT NANCY’S SILVER CAFÉ is what they—and their relatives—have always loved about it. Generations return to the downtown Silver City spot for made-to-order tacos, from-scratch…
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Plaza Café Celebrates 75 Years
AS A KID, ONE OF LEONARDO RAZATOS’S jobs was to stand on a milk crate and make toast all day for customers of his family’s restaurant, the Plaza Café—a Santa Fe Plaza landmark celebrating 75 years…
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Ice, Ice, Baby
WHEN 17-YEAR-OLD CLAUDIUS DIPO ALAM came to the U.S. from Indonesia as a professional soccer player, he had no clue what a paleta was. But a decade or so later, he couldn’t get enough of the Mexican…
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Navajo Cuisine Gets A Pop-Up Twist
"ARE YOU SURE we’re in the right place?” I ask my brother as we pull into a dimly lit strip mall. Entering a humble coffee shop, I spy a candlelit table with a nine-course menu card at each setting…
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Good Soul at Frank’s Famous Chicken and Waffles
THE FOOD MAY BE FAMOUS, but it’s the music that’s jumping when you walk into Frank’s Famous Chicken and Waffles, in Albuquerque. Old-school tunes from Chaka Khan and Marvin Gaye fill the air, while…
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Wine and Dine
SARA JO MATHEWS named Prairie Hill Café, the restaurant in Las Vegas’s Plaza Hotel, after the road leading to her family’s ranch. Their beef stars in the Jackpot Cowboy, a triple-layered, nine-ounce…
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Sean Sinclair Cooks Up Historic Meals
FROM A TIJERAS KID teaching himself the basics of salsa, Sean Sinclair has blossomed into a chef worth knowing. His Bar Castañeda, at the renovated Castañeda Hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico, was the…
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Seasoned with Love
THE PRESSURES OF RUNNING A RESTAURANT—especially during these past two years, when many eateries succumbed to the challenges—can be enhanced by working with a life partner. Well, sometimes. It can…
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Willow + Blaine Brings French Fare to Las Cruces
RAYS OF SUNSET cast a glow on outer stone walls, ratcheting up the already romantic character of Willow + Blaine. Inside the French bistro and wine bar, white marble tabletops, vases of antique tinted…
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A Love for Valentine Diners
Above: Jerry Ueckert renovated this Valentine diner and dubbed it the Red Top Diner. Photograph by Kate Nelson. After they went into production in 1947, Valentine diners soon dotted the West—some…
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