Pork Chop Ranchero with Barbecue Chips from The Freight House in Bernalillo Dine at Vick’s Vittles and you’ll be treated like a hero there, too. Hennessy Award for best food service in the U.S. In the seventeen years he’s operated the Thunderbird Inn, it has won the John L. Although legally blind, the effusive restaurateur is one of the most energetic and committed people you’ll ever meet. Vick, who operates the Thunderbird Dining Hall on Kirtland Air Force Base and Vick’s Vittles in Albuquerque was presented the “ Food Fanatics Hero Award” in recognition of his commitment to the community despite many difficulties. Now Robert Vick has himself been declared a hero. These are the exceptional eateries that “get it right every time–where everyone feels like a VIP and each meal is memorable.” Only two New Mexico restaurants made this hallowed list: Santa Fe restaurants Arroyo Vino and Geronimo. Doing just that, Open Table analyzed some 5,000,000 reviews of more than 20,000 restaurants across the country and came up with its 2015 list of America’s 100 best restaurants. To whom should you turn for information on the very best restaurants? Open Table, an online restaurant reservation system which connects diners with more than 32,000 restaurants worldwide, believes if you want to know where to dine, you should take the pulse of the people who dine out. I’ve always bragged about having the most discerning, intelligent and passionate readers of any online presence in the blogosphere.ĭecember, 2015 Salad Nicoise from La Crepe Michel Thank you, New Mexico and beyond, for your contributions to Gil’s Thrilling (And Filling) Blog. Four of the five top commentators are charter members of the Friends of Gil (FOG). The most prolific commentators for 2015 were: (1) Bob of the Village of Los Ranchos with 152 comments (2) Jim Millington with 55 comments (3) Bruce Schor with 49 comments (4) Noe Pacheco with 26 comments and (5) Jen with 22 comments. My reviews for the Down N’ Dirty Seafood Boil and the 66 Pit Stop also finished one and two in 2014. From among the 901 reviews published on Gil’s Thrilling…the five most popular reviews (based on the number of reader views) during the year were (1) Down N’ Dirty Seafood Boil (2) 66 Pit Stop: Home of the Laguna Burger (3) The Owl Cafe (4) Philly’s N Fries and (5) Mary & Tito’s. Elaine Briseño, the Journal’s brilliant Features reporter dug deep to find something interesting to write about me. Look for an a profile on this humble blogger in an upcoming Sunday edition of the Albuquerque Journal. I value your comments immensely and appreciate that you thought enough of my blog this year to have voted me, for the fourth time in five years, as one of the city’s five best bloggers in Albuquerque The Magazine’s annual “best of the city” issue. There are now more than 7,400 reader comments on 901 reviews, an increase of more than 800 comments and 57 new reviews. Look for an upcoming profile on this handsome guy in the Albuquerque JournalĢ015 was another banner year for Gil’s Thrilling (and Filling) Blog. We salute those restaurateurs for whom the only failure would have been not to have tried at all. Sill other restaurateurs transitioned to mew adventures, some not in the hospitality industry. Other closures put to rest the dreams of enterprising owners who sadly arrived at the harsh realization of just how brutal the economy and how fickle the business can be. Some, such as Tim’s Place, the “world’s friendliest restaurant” had achieved national prominence. By my count, some 25 restaurants shuttered their doors for the last time. Here’s my thrilling (and filling) recap.Ģ015 was a year of transition for New Mexico’s culinary landscape. The New Mexico culinary landscape had more highs than it did lows in 2015. It’s a time for introspection, resolutions and for looking forward with hope to the year to come. It’s the time of year in which the “in-your-face” media practically forces a reminiscence–either fondly or with disgust–about the year that was.
Tis the season…for year-end retrospectives in which the good, the bad and the ugly the triumphs and tragedies the highs and lows and the ups and downs are revisited ad-infinitum by seemingly every print and cyberspace medium in existence. Early Cuyler (voice of Unknown Hinson), star of Adult Swim’s Squidbillies, always wears a trucker hat.Feasting with the Friends of Gil (FOG) at Mary & Tito’s
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