Address: 2401 12th Street
Pricing: Dinners range from $10 to $36 per person
Phone: 505-724-3510
Hours: Monday - Thursday 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
How To Get There:
Exit I-40 at 12th Street and head north.
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center will be on the left.
Restaurant is located inside the cultural center.
Parking:free parking in front and rear
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Native American Pueblo cuisine
Mar 31, 2010
New Mexico is known for Mexican food, but what not everyone realizes is there is another style of cuisine that is indigenous to the area -- the Native American Pueblo cuisine. The Pueblo Harvest Cafe and Bakery in the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center has combined the two styles of cooking in a Native American Fusion cuisine.
The restaurant is open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Starting in April, Salsa and Native American bands will be entertaining diners on the outside patio on weekend evenings and during Sunday brunch.
The Pueblo Indians cooked with blue corn and game, according to restaurant manager, James Trujillo. They used elk, bison, and rabbit -- and so does the restaurant. One example is the bison short ribs that are braised in red wine with ancho chili and plums for $24. Another is the elk tenderloin with a blackberry sage compote and a red wine demi glaze for $36.
Typical Mexican favorites, such as the enchiladas or carne adovada are made with a Pueblo twist. The Santa Ana enchiladas, $13, are made with blue corn tortillas, and the Pojoaque carne adovada, $13, is served with Pueblo beans and squash.
The bread and bakery items are baked fresh daily in the outside horno. The horno is a beehive shaped oven made out of hardened mud that is heated by wood. Starting in April, the restaurant will serve appetizers on the patio straight out of the horno.
- by Julie Medina, Albuquerque Reporter for HelloMetro
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Julie MedinaJulie Medina has experience as a reporter at the Albuquerque Journal and has written freelance articles for the Albuquerque Tribune, Albuquerque the Magazine, New Mexico Magazine and New Mexico Kids Magazine. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in print journalism from the University of New Mexico in 2008. She has lived in Albuquerque since 1984 and believes it is best to remember to play like a tourist in your own hometown so you don't forget the vast culture around you.
