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Escondido – Santa Fe, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 06:01:48 +0000

“For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light.” ~Luke 8:17 “Escondido (which translates from Spanish to “hidden”) sure proves that Bible verse wrong,” I lamented as I cursed Google Maps for having led me to a nondescript residential neighborhood in Santa Fe. Though not as execrable as the time Google Maps insisted I make a left onto a crude and rocky dry wash when trying to get to Kayenta, Arizona, I nonetheless took Google’s name in vain then followed my instincts. Fortunately, crossing over Agua Fria onto another neighborhood shed light on my quandrary. There in front of me was Escondido, the restaurant destination I…

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Sobremesa Restaurant & Brewery – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 06:01:40 +0000

In June, 2021, Eater.com published a list of “the 21 Essential Restaurants in Albuquerque.” Unlike so many “clickbait” articles from national publications purporting to tell New Mexicans which restaurants across the Land of Enchantment serve the “best this” and the “best that,” the Eater feature was penned by Justin De La Rosa who actually knows this state very well. In fact, in 2015 Justin earned a “Local Hero Award” from Edible New Mexico as “best food writer.” If you’re wondering what constitutes an “Essential Restaurant,” Eater’s erstwhile national critic Bill Addison defined the term to mean “indispensable to their neighborhoods, and eventually to their towns and whole regions,” to “ultimately become vital to how we understand ourselves, and others, at…

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La Zenita – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil Garduno — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 06:01:55 +0000

In his immortal play Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare used two lines to convey that the naming of things is irrelevant: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” My friends Bruce and Loren Plata like to remind me that in Hebrew, the name “Gil” represents a “small goat,” an animal that definitely doesn’t smell quite as fragrant as a rose. My retort, of course, is that “goat” is an acronym for “greatest of all time.” So, relevant or not, names do have meanings and can provide a lifetime of notoriety. Most of us just hope our names aren’t something that can be made fun of. In…

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