Eckleburg + Grumblecake of the Duke City Fix blog have vowed to dine at every one of Albuquerque’s Central Avenue restaurants in 2006.
From Tramway to Coors. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Our path may at times veer off of Central to include other restaurants in Old Town or on side streets we deem “close enough,” but good old Route 66 will be our guide.
This means we’ll enjoy the delights of Graze, Artichoke Cafe, and Ambrozia (close enough!), while at the same time we tempt fate at Loyola’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and those questionable-looking, supiciously inexpensive Chinese places.
We’ll update you on this cultural experience here and on a new blog. … We suspect that we’ll learn a lot about the Duke City during this endeavor — we’ll see posh stuff, not-so-posh stuff, and down-right nasty stuff. We’ll do our best to hit up waitresses and waiters for juicy tidbits about ABQ history. We’ll correlate our take on food quality with the city inspector’s take on kitchen cleanliness. We’ll take pictures and come up with some silly rating system that is sure to entertain.
It will be a formidable task. Central Avenue, by my reckoning, is at least 15 miles long and festooned with restaurants. Even though Interstate 40 bypassed it decades ago, Central remains one of the busiest streets in the city. The couple probably will need two meals a day to pull it off, and I hope they have a StairMaster available.
Well, we don’t have an exercise plan, but we do have a website (now).
Check it out: http://www.I8Route66.com has an official home on the web, and the eating has begun.
We’ll update soon with actual reviews. For now, bask in the promise of good things to come.
– Eckleburg and Grumblecake
Great! Let us know when some reviews are up. We’ll be in ABQ in June for a Route 66 gathering, so your reviews may well guide us to some good grub at that time.
Just a note – several reviews are up now!