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Fair enough, but then again, you don't know my Sisters... I, myself had some left over Tamales I steamed for dinner, with of course red chile. For the record, we are doing local fare in Old Towne while they are visiting.
That's true enough, and I certainly know eaters in my extended family who basically want to eat at your standard burger/sandwich grill type places everywhere they go.
I think the main issue and why people respond somewhat negatively is that Italian food tends to often be pretty mediocre in areas without a notable Italian community (and even in those areas one has to be pretty choosy), while there's a golden rule about seafood that for a really good experience you wanna eat it the day it was caught which of course is pretty unlikely in New Mexico.
Paisanos is pretty decent. Terrific homemade house dressing. If they sell it by the bottle get some!
Seafood? In Albuquerque? People would be putting green chile on lobster thermidore. I've been in this state for a decade and haven't found good seafood yet, sorry to say.
As a former fisherman. You actually want to eat seafood a day after its been caught. Reason being is the muscle tissue loosens up a day later.
That is truly the ultimate experience. One of the best experiences I've ever had: flats fishing in Marathon, Florida. My friend and I caught grouper, and had them cooked up at a restaurant we went to that evening. I don't think anything can top what I tasted that evening.
Paisanos is pretty decent. Terrific homemade house dressing. If they sell it by the bottle get some!
Seafood? In Albuquerque? People would be putting green chile on lobster thermidore. I've been in this state for a decade and haven't found good seafood yet, sorry to say.
I know of one place, but it's here in Las Cruces (Mesilla actually): Hacienda. Best chilean sea bass, my gosh.
That's true enough, and I certainly know eaters in my extended family who basically want to eat at your standard burger/sandwich grill type places everywhere they go.
I think the main issue and why people respond somewhat negatively is that Italian food tends to often be pretty mediocre in areas without a notable Italian community (and even in those areas one has to be pretty choosy), while there's a golden rule about seafood that for a really good experience you wanna eat it the day it was caught which of course is pretty unlikely in New Mexico.
New Mexico has rivers and lakes with trout, bass, and catfish.
I eat sushi in NM pretty regularly, and I think it's just as good as sushi I've had on the coasts, where I've had some that wasn't that good. Living near an ocean is no guarantee that what you're being served is fresh or good quality.
It's a shame that so many are portraying Albuquerque as only a destination for New Mexican food. The diversity in different foods throughout the metro is impressive and it might be the one thing we can all agree on.
You can get great food out here from Vietnamese, to Italian, to Thai and Indian.
For the OP I would suggest you go to M'Tuccis. They have four restaurants spread throughout the city and the food is incredible.
For seafood you should consider Slapfish, it's not a traditional restaurant but the food is good and fresh.
In case anyone's interested, and to counter the notion that "there can be no fish in the desert!", here's a history of the state's six fish hatcheries, which goes back to 1921. The Los Ojos Fish Hatchery south of Chama is capable of producing 3 million trout yearly. The fish are used to stock waters statewide:
In case anyone's interested, and to counter the notion that "there can be no fish in the desert!", here's a history of the state's six fish hatcheries, which goes back to 1921. The Los Ojos Fish Hatchery south of Chama is capable of producing 3 million trout yearly. The fish are used to stock waters statewide:
Never developed a taste for trout. But Halibut, Red Snapper, Wahoo, etc, hell yeah!
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