Feel the Love at Hi-D-Ho
MIKA MYERS GREW UP PREPARING BURGERS with her grandmother, Patricia Dulany, who owned Alamogordo’s Hi-D-Ho Drive-In from the late 1970s until Myers took over as owner. Myers, who also works as a…
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Tag: Restaurants & Dining
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…
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Eat Around the World at El Vado Motel
EL VADO MOTEL’S SUNNY COURTYARD is hopping on this Sunday afternoon. A happy crowd of motel guests, local families, friends, and couples toting leashed dogs hang out beneath umbrella-shaded tables…
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Ahmed Obo's Next Move
WALKING INTO JAMBO CAFÉ, off busy Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe, feels like coming home. From the warm greetings to the chatter of happy diners and the clatter of cutlery on plates piled high with…
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Get a Taste of Geronimo's Fine Dining
SHOULD YOU ASK A PARENT which one of their offspring is their favorite, most would have a hard time answering. Ask a chef and food writer which restaurant is his or her favorite and the same challenge…
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Make Reservations for Romance
THE LOVE APPLE, TAOS White-plastered adobe walls rising to a bluebird sky greet diners at the Love Apple. Housed in a former 19th-century chapel, the Taos restaurant attracts culinary devotees with a…
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Mesa Provisions Dishes Up Seasonal Goodness
MESA PROVISIONS INVITES YOU IN with a warm, casual ambience and a hip community vibe. But beyond the wood floors, exposed brick, and windows overlooking bustling Central Avenue, the laid-back…
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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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Margarita Shake Up
Los Conejos, Albuquerque This agave bar represents breadth and variety, with more than 70 varieties of mezcal on its menu. “We want our drinks to show that agave spirits are more than just shots…
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