Harold Smith of the Mountain View Telegraph appears to have found an old favorite that was believed to have been defunct along Route 66 in Moriarty, N.M., which is east of Albuquerque.
It’s Aunt YeYa’s Food, in the Moriarty Flea Market on Route 66 on the east end of town.
There was another Aunt YeYa’s restaurant in Moriarty, but it closed about 15 months ago. Aunt YeYa, who is actually Henrietta Romero, took a job last year as an administrative assistant for the high school’s athletic director. But she left because she didn’t like the night hours. So she went back into the restaurant business.
The restaurant serves enchiladas, green-chile cheeseburgers and other old Aunt YeYa favorites.
Romero said she and Joe Garcia had planned on operating her new endeavor just on weekends.
But she said many of her former customers dropped by this past weekend and asked her what they were to do the other five days now that she’s back to her calling.
As a result, Romero said Aunt YeYa’s will be open on a trial basis on weekdays this week beginning at 7 a.m. each day to serve the breakfast-burrito crowd and will probably remain open through lunch.
She emphasized that the outdoor-service-only joint, situated behind the flea market building, will vary its hours from whenever she feels like opening to whenever she wants to close.
Aunt YeYa’s will also take phone orders. Call 610-6833.
So if you’re cruising through Moriarty in the morning, you’d best look her up.