Owl Cafe - Albuquerque

This place has a chill diner atmosphere complete with little jukebox terminals at your table just like the diners from my childhood. Great selection of shakes and I really like the fried zucchini and mushrooms combo plate. Service is efficient and friendly.

Overrated due to being on breaking bad. Food prices were high. Drink prices outrageous. 5 dollars for a pop! Burgers and sandwiches and quesadillas, empanadas etc were around 20 dollars each. Food was mediocre. I got a reuben sandwich which was fine. Came with tortillachips. I thought was supposed to come with fries. Others like their more traditional new mexican food of quesadilla and enchiladas. Gave us asmall dish for free of beans no big deal. 2 people split a milkshake. They put in2 glasses. They sell lots of souvenirs including t-shirts. Pies and cakes looked great. They had table juke boxes.

We were starving when we got here, so I asked the gal at the front desk of our hotel what she recommended for some new mexican food. She told us about this place, which was right up the street from us. I was not a fan of the refried beans and rice- but everything else was tasty! We ordered chili cheese fries to share, fully expecting them to be, well, fries with chili on them. The waitress asked if we wanted red or green chili and we all just kind of looked at each other...then chose green. They were super tasty and the fries were salted to perfection. My chile relleno was pretty good, the batter was different, it almost had a cornbread feel to it! I had the waitress put both red and green chili on my dinner so I could try them both. They also brought out a little dish of pot beans that had green chiles on them with saltine crackers. Pretty solid little place! Love the neon too.

I really like the building reminds me of 1930's Calif, when there were a lot of eateries came in a shape. (Not that I was around then). We haven't been back in a looong time so with some time on our hands here we are. Sat quickly and seemed like our server was already there. Not quite lunch time so we got to choose from breakfast menus. Veggie 2 egg omelet for me and Carne Adovada for my wife. Omelet was full of vegs and not overcooked. The carne adovada was tasty and tender. Once again plenty of leftovers. Good food, good service glad we stopped.

I was in ABQ for work and had finished way earlier than I thought I would so had plenty of time to try and find a place to eat. Green Chiles! Green Chiles! was a refrain that I heard over and over when I mentioned New Mexico. I was a little off the beaten path-lot of chain restaurants and storage units but not much else but Yelp directed me to The Owl Cafe and I liked the old school diner vibe it gave off, at the very least I could take a picture of the kitschy exterior. I walked in and the interior definitely had that old school diner vibe too. I got seated and Mary, my server dropped off a small bowl of pinto beans and green chiles. Since I already checked the box in getting chiles so I decided to go with their burger special which was cheap, like throwback to the 90s cheap. I did tell Mary that I wanted to get chiles and while the beans and chiles checked the box, I still had an itch to scratch. She suggested getting fries with chiles on top and get the Christmas style. She also checked on me a lot and made sure my Arnold Palmer was full during my meal. I had good hot meal at a fast casual price.