New Mexico

Zia Diner – Santa Fe, New Mexico – Closed

Zia Diner and Angel Food Catering appeared in Season 6, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Homestyle,” which aired June 1, 2009, as a Santa Fe diner serving American and New Mexican comfort food with the scratch-made attention that earned a DDD segment. The restaurant was a downtown Santa Fe institution on South Guadalupe […]

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American, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 6

Standard Diner – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Standard Diner occupies a 1938 Texaco service station on Central Avenue SE in Albuquerque — which means it occupies a stretch of Historic Route 66 in a building that has its own National Register of Historic Places potential. The restoration converted the gas station into a full-service diner without erasing the Art Deco bones of

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American, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 5

Sophia’s Place – Albuquerque, New Mexico – Closed

Sophia’s Place appeared in Season 5, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Not What You’d Expect,” which aired November 24, 2008, as an Albuquerque breakfast and lunch operation built around New Mexican-style Mexican food with the kind of scratch-made chile and homemade tortilla cooking that defines the state’s food identity. Both the original Sophia’s

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Mexican, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 5

Harry’s Roadhouse – Santa Fe, New Mexico

Harry Shapiro grew up in Philadelphia, trained as a chef, and eventually landed in Santa Fe, where he brought his Philadelphia food sensibility — particularly a deep affection for scrapple — into a Southwestern roadhouse setting. Harry’s Roadhouse has been on Old Las Vegas Highway just outside of downtown Santa Fe since the 1990s, earning

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Breakfast, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 5

Tecolote Café – Santa Fe, New Mexico – Closed

Tecolote Café appeared in Season 3, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — “Regional Favorites,” aired March 24, 2008 — as a Santa Fe breakfast institution serving New Mexican-style food that reflected the deep culinary traditions of the region: green and red chile, huevos rancheros, posole, and the kind of morning cooking that defines

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Breakfast, Mexican, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 3

Bert’s Burger Bowl – Santa Fe, New Mexico – Closed

Bert’s Burger Bowl appeared in Season 5, Episode 12 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “All Kinds of Fast Food,” which aired March 16, 2009, as a Santa Fe burger stand serving the kind of honest, no-frills green chile cheeseburger that New Mexico does better than anywhere else in the country. The restaurant has since permanently

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Burgers, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 5

Cecilia’s Cafe – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Cecilia Baca opened Cecilia’s Cafe in 1999 on the corner of 6th Street and Silver Avenue in downtown Albuquerque, naming it after herself and building the menu around the New Mexican food she learned from her grandmother’s kitchen. She is one of twelve siblings and traces her cooking directly to her family’s traditions, including a

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Albuquerque, Mexican, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 5

Monte Carlo Steak House – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Monte Carlo Steak House sits on Central Avenue SW in Albuquerque, which means it sits on Historic Route 66 in a city that has been a crossroads stop for travelers since the highway was commissioned. The restaurant has been a neighborhood institution serving steaks and burgers to a loyal local following for decades, built on

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Albuquerque, Burgers, New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 3, Steakhouse
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