Green chile stew weather
7 places · best Oct–Mar
The first cold week of the year, everyone in town wants a bowl: roasted green chile, potatoes soaking up the broth, tender pork or beef, and a warm tortilla to tear and dip. Every kitchen makes its own, brothy or thick, with a flour tortilla, a sopaipilla or a round loaf of Pueblo oven bread.
Indian Pueblo Kitchen
Tear off a piece of fry bread as big as the plate and drag it through pork, corn, potatoes and Hatch green chile. Or get a round loaf of Pueblo oven bread with it, and take the rest home. Albuquerque The Magazine named this bowl the best in the city.
Inside the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. The bread can take 15 minutes, so order it first.
Laguna Burger (12th Street)
Laguna families were putting roasted green chile on burgers on Pueblo feast days long before there was a Laguna Burger. Get a cup of their stew, pork and potatoes in a tomato-y broth, next to the burger, or sit at the bar with a bowl and a tortilla.
Across 12th Street from Indian Pueblo Kitchen.
The Original Cocina Azul
Frank Jr.’s bowl is the beef version, tender chunks with potato in a broth crowded with Hatch chile. The family that opened the place makes it fresh every day. Mop it up with a sopaipilla.
Monroe's
Miguel’s Stew comes in a 16-ounce bowl, pork and potatoes swimming in green chile, with two flour tortillas. Split it with a friend and you’ll wish you hadn’t. Monroe’s started as a little drive-in near Old Town.
Closed Wednesdays. Swap the tortillas for sopaipillas, or ask for cheese melted on top.
El Patio de Albuquerque
Dave and Gloria Sandoval opened El Patio in 1977 on a tree-shaded street south of UNM. Their stew is the brothy kind. Sip it from the spoon, with a tortilla and a side of beans.
Los Compadres
Call it in on a sick day and eat it on the couch, with soft flour tortillas for dunking. They do takeout by phone.
On Central, up the street from the BioPark.
Frontier Restaurant
Plenty of late nights in this town end here, with a steaming bowl of green chile stew and a flour tortilla still warm from the tortilla machine you can watch while you wait. Ask for it over your huevos rancheros in the morning.
Open till midnight, across Central from UNM. Order at the counter and listen for your number.