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Cathy, hey need your suggestions on decent places in Alamo/Tully. Are there any you'd recommend? Hit pretty much all in Ruidoso (El Comal about the best since Casa Blanca hit the skids) and have the menus pretty well memorized for the places in 'Zozo, so looking for some new ideas. Got any? Thanks (or as we say here in China, Xie Xie)
Cathy, hey need your suggestions on decent places in Alamo/Tully. Are there any you'd recommend? Hit pretty much all in Ruidoso (El Comal about the best since Casa Blanca hit the skids) and have the menus pretty well memorized for the places in 'Zozo, so looking for some new ideas. Got any? Thanks (or as we say here in China, Xie Xie)
Casa Blanca closed?!? Well, DANG.
The only place I can recommend around here is Casa de Suenos in Tulie.
Margo's is OK, but nothing to write home about.
Alamo Grill started out good, but it certainly has gone downhill since then.
The chains (Applebee's and Chili's) aren't bad, but they're just like all of the rest of them.
Every Chinese place I've tried sucks....
So does every pizza place....
Can you tell I've come to hate most Alamogordo restaurants..?
No, sorry, CB isn't closed, but they have absolutely gone way down in quality, IMO. They did open an outdoor seating area which is nice, but the food has really gotten, well, yuk! The refries taste like something out of a can, meat is just ground-up McDonalds with no flavor, and the sopapillas, which used to be huge, are now like little small bisquick jobbies. We went a couple time this summer, second time thinking it was maybe just an off night, but sure enough. Still super busy there, but too bad it's not like it was.
Anyway thanks for the suggestions! Sorry Alamo doesn't have much to offer, that's a shame.
No, sorry, CB isn't closed, but they have absolutely gone way down in quality, IMO. They did open an outdoor seating area which is nice, but the food has really gotten, well, yuk! The refries taste like something out of a can, meat is just ground-up McDonalds with no flavor, and the sopapillas, which used to be huge, are now like little small bisquick jobbies. We went a couple time this summer, second time thinking it was maybe just an off night, but sure enough. Still super busy there, but too bad it's not like it was.
Anyway thanks for the suggestions! Sorry Alamo doesn't have much to offer, that's a shame.
Well, that's also a shame about Casa Blanca...it's supposed to be one of the better places in the area. I'll hit Disco Taco one of these days, too.
Jane (Chilegal) might have some suggestions for restaurants here.
It's very strange that a single town has such generally mediocre restaurants--all mostly bland. You might check out Memories for a more upscale place, but I haven't eaten there.
I forgot about Pepper's Grill on north White Sands. The breakfasts are pretty good, and the Chicken Cordon Bleu I had for dinner was good. Might check them out.
I would argue that this cuisine and culture encroaches into southern Colorado, as far north as Alamosa, near the headwaters of the Upper Rio Grande. I've been in Alamosa, Antonito, etc, and these places are not unlike Tierra Amarilla, Dulce, Chama, etc, except that Alamosa is much more populated.
If you look at the demographics of places such as Conejos County Colorado, they are almost identical to Rio Arriba County, in NM. The Spanish settlements didn't terminate at the 37th parallel, but rather, beyond the headwaters of the Rio Grande.
I'm thinking it's because the area wasn't settled much until the railroad got there in the 1880s, bringing mainly mid-westerners, and the local Indian population was mostly Utes, a tribe of non-Southwestern origin. Apparently the stockmen driving their cattle South of the border didn't like the food enough to bring it back North. I'm curious if they would have encountered it in places like Farmington or Aztec.
I did not know that. Where were they from originally?
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