Restaurants in southern New Mexico
 

I'm flying into EL Paso on a Friday evening and driving up to Truth or Consequences. Looking for recomendations for supper close to I-25 or in Truth or Consequences. Non-chain - BBQ, seafood or ethenic - not Mexican.

It can be fancy or a dive, but ideally fairly fast. Long meals are less fun when it is only one person.

Also, any restaurant recomendations around Alamogordo for Saturday?

Keith

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Keith,

we just got back from a trip to southern NM, but all we wanted to eat was Mexican! That said, the menu at the Double Eagle in old Mesilla looked very good, with a few seafood dishes, probably what you would call continental.

Good luck!

Thanks for the lead!

I already have a Mexican restaurant picked out in Carlsbad, and I'm not big enough on Mexican food to want to do several.

Keith

Keith, I have to caution you. The only ethnic in NM is Mexican. If you find a Chinese/Asian restaurant, it will not be worth eating at, believe me! BBQ is not very good there either, and the seafood is abysmal. Even in places where they have freshwater streams and rivers, they don't commercially process and sell the local fish. What you might find are steak houses. Dishes like chicken-fried steak. That will be your "local" foods. Also, I recall a Greek restaurant in Riudoso but never tried it. Good luck.

Also, realize that New Mexican food is quite different than Mexican-it's fantastic and something you can't find anywhere else in the country.

Moon Guides New Mexico Handbook has great restaurant recommendations, if you don't get any here. You might also look at chowhound or egullet online.

I definitely concur with what Christy just said. New Mexican does not equal the Mexican food we have had anywhere else.

If you're open to it, here's what we liked along I-25:

La Posta (Mesilla)
Peppers (Mesilla)
Si Senor (Las Cruces, okay, not as good as the other two)
El Sombrero (Socorro, about an hour north of T & C; probably the best we had outside of Santa Fe)

You must try the sopapillas with honey!

I've had them a number of times in Albuqurque, marigold.

Mexican restaurants have become very common where I live (metro Kansas City). There are 5 within two blocks of me as I type this.

But thanks again everyone! I'm off tomorrow.

Keith