Slate Street Cafe Restaurant Review
515 Slate Ave. NW (Lomas Blvd.) 
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Albuquerque, NM 87102
505-243-2210 | Menu
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 Slate Street Café is the quintessential twenty-first-century neighborhood eatery: charming, artsy and eclectic. Situated in a renovated house downtown, it’s cheerful downstairs and dark and cozy in the upstairs wine loft, which hosts regular tastings. And every menu is at once as full of little surprises as it is comforting. Breakfast and brunch are classically simple, dominated by local, organic egg dishes like the omelet with honey ham, green chile and white cheddar hash browns. But the creative kitchen really shows its stuff at lunch and dinner. Starters such as fried olives stuffed with roasted garlic and Boursin cheese, spot-on tater tots, and eight different kinds of bruschetta are impossible to resist. Don’t overdo it, though, or you’ll miss out on funky entrées like pancetta-laced mac ‘n’ cheese with Parmesan brittle, fish ‘n’ chips updated with salmon but traditionally served in a paper bag, or chicken-fried steak smothered in red or green chile. For dessert, Slate Street specializes in cupcakes; blueberry-lemon is a favorite, but the bakers whip up specialty flavors daily. It also makes a mean apple-walnut tart drizzled with caramel. A second, daytime-only branch at The Albuquerque Museum, called Slate at The Museum, is located at 2000 Mountain Rd. NW, 505-243-2220.
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