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Selfish road trip vanity: Eating places in Las Cruces, NM/El Paso, TX?
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Posted on 01/04/2009 5:53:23 PM PST by DCBryan1

Hey Freepers on Las Cruces/El Paso area: I'm on PCS orders from CA back to AR and stopping in your area for the night. My honey and I would like some suggestions on some local good eats!

NO CHAIN RESTAURANTS!

We would like either a good steakhouse or the best Mexican food restaurant.

Thank you so much!


TOPICS: Food; Freeoples; Military/Veterans; Travel
KEYWORDS: elpaso; help; newmexico; roadtrip; texas
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To: CindyDawg

Alamogordo maybe? It’s just the other side of White Sands (my Mom worked at the missile range years ago) and is surrounded on one side by the Organ Mountains (Las Cruces is just on the other side of the mnts) and darnit I forget what the others are called but Cloudcroft is in them.


21 posted on 01/04/2009 6:15:18 PM PST by brytlea (You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
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To: DCBryan1

Forgot the addresses. And by the way, these are from Roadfood.com, to which I’ve subscribed for several years.

Nellie’s - Las Cruces, NM
310 S. Mesquite St.
OR 2605 Missouri
Lunch, dinner only
Food Items: Chips and Salsa, Eggs with Chile and Meat, Green Chile, Huevos Rancheros, Sopaipillas

Nopalito - Las Cruces, NM
1226 W. Hadley
Breakfast, lunch only
Food Items: Avocado Salad, Chiles Rellenos, Salsas, Stacked Enchilada


22 posted on 01/04/2009 6:17:16 PM PST by angkor ("All you could hope for ...in the world's most august deliberative body." - Baldwin on Franken)
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To: CindyDawg

Yes, the Space Museum is in Alamogordo. We lived there (before the museum was there) back in the late 60s and early 70s. Last time I was there a couple of years ago, a friend and I went and saw an Imax movie at the museum. It was so weird for Alamogordo to have that, as it was just a dustly little armpit place when we lived there (and actually kind of still is). I say that in the most loving manner as it was a GREAT place to be a kid back then! We had horses and rode them around town, it was a blast!


23 posted on 01/04/2009 6:17:55 PM PST by brytlea (You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
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To: patton

might be nellies from post #12.
that sounds exactly like what we had...


24 posted on 01/04/2009 6:18:38 PM PST by leda (if you put up with what you've got, you deserve what you get)
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To: DCBryan1

In El Paso, the best Mexican (traditional, not Tex Mex) is Carnitas Querétaro. There are several locations, but the easiest is on I10. Just ask any local where the ‘big pink pig’ is and they’ll send you there.


25 posted on 01/04/2009 6:20:26 PM PST by mnehring
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To: DCBryan1

Per 25, found a link for you with directions.
http://www.eskimo.com/~sockeye/ep/cqep.html


26 posted on 01/04/2009 6:21:03 PM PST by mnehring
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To: brytlea

Yep. Just looked it up. Mountains all around us. We just kind of stumbled upon it.


27 posted on 01/04/2009 6:23:31 PM PST by CindyDawg (I)
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To: leda; patton
Like this?


28 posted on 01/04/2009 6:23:48 PM PST by angkor ("All you could hope for ...in the world's most august deliberative body." - Baldwin on Franken)
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To: DCBryan1

Kiki’s Mexican Restaurant, close to Bliss, call for their hours first as my troop there didn’t know how late they are open on Sunday !

Hope it helps !

Exit I-10 on Piedras St. and Go North.

Continue North about a mile and a half.

To the intersection of Piedras and Mobile.

Kiki’s is located at 2719 N. Piedras

(915) 565-6713

http://kikismexicanrestaurant.com/findus/mappage.htm


29 posted on 01/04/2009 6:24:29 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: DCBryan1
I have to do this, absolutely the best BBQ for on the road Famous Dave's

Famous Dave's



Pard, you will thank me for this after you have eaten there. I do extensive travel and have eaten at many of these.
30 posted on 01/04/2009 6:26:09 PM PST by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism and BO is a WHINING marxist)
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To: angkor; leda

No, it was don in town, just south of I-10. Sort of downhill from the Hilton.

It was really popular with the locals, and lots of families were bringing in their kids for a school celebration of some sort.


31 posted on 01/04/2009 6:26:43 PM PST by patton (+)
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To: CindyDawg

Hubby just reminded me the Mnts on the Cloudcroft side (I think that was East, I think the sun came up from that direction, but honestly I don’t remember!) were the White Mnts.


32 posted on 01/04/2009 6:31:28 PM PST by brytlea (You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
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To: angkor

OK, thanks a lot, now I have a hankerin’ for Mexican food....


33 posted on 01/04/2009 6:32:26 PM PST by brytlea (You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
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To: angkor

MMMM. My husband isn’t amused. I have a craving now for bacon and eggs and trying to get him to take me to IHOP tonight.


34 posted on 01/04/2009 6:33:16 PM PST by CindyDawg (I)
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To: brytlea

Yeah. Originally we were going futher east and coming back to North Texas. For days my mom had talked about burning rubber from cloud croft. Wasn’t going there:’)


35 posted on 01/04/2009 6:37:49 PM PST by CindyDawg (I)
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To: DCBryan1

Si Señor
1551 Amador Ave.
Las Cruces, NM 88001
505-527-0817

good food, inexpensive.


36 posted on 01/04/2009 6:39:06 PM PST by jim-x (God help America survive its enemies within.)
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To: brytlea
When we lived in Las Cruces, we also enjoyed a restaruant in Old Mesilla. The church courtyard is interesting as is the jail where Billy the Kid was housed.
Hope it is still as nice as when we were there, which was 46 years ago.

The restaurant was great, but just can't remember the name. It was my introduction to Mexican cuisine.

37 posted on 01/04/2009 6:42:16 PM PST by mckenzie7 ( ANNA THE RETIREE)
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To: RegulatorCountry
Thank you for remembering. It WAS La Posta!
Oh my, what memories!
38 posted on 01/04/2009 6:43:22 PM PST by mckenzie7 ( ANNA THE RETIREE)
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To: DCBryan1

Forget Goode co. — they are a new chain.
Stay away from Pappas Bros. bar b que, but steaks are good though.

I suggest Hickory Hollow

http://www.hickoryhollowrestaurant.com/index.html
maps at bottom of home page.

another long time fav. is Demeris Barbecue,

http://www.houston.com/demeris-barbecue-b14248

Have heard consistent good on this but not tried by me recently.
Cleburne Cafeteria
3606 Bissonnet Street
713/667-2386


39 posted on 01/04/2009 6:44:34 PM PST by urtax$@work
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To: urtax$@work

Sorry for the omission, but these are all Houston locations,
but since I-10 runs through, thought you might find useful.


40 posted on 01/04/2009 6:46:33 PM PST by urtax$@work
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