Tune-Up Cafe on Hickox Street in Santa Fe has been combining the cooking traditions of El Salvador and New Mexico in a small neighborhood restaurant that earns regulars who come back weekly and visitors who plan their Santa Fe trips around a table there. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 7 of Diners, Drive-Ins and
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New Mexico, Restaurants, Season 5Sophia’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 5Harry 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 5Tecolote 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 3Backroad Pizza on Second Street in Santa Fe has been building a reputation around fresh-made dough, quality toppings, and the kind of creative pizza combinations that reflect the New Mexican culinary environment — green chile on pizza is not a novelty here, it is the obvious move. It appeared in Season 6, Episode 6 of
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New Mexico, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 6Bert’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 5Cecilia 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 5Monte 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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