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No Styrofoam
We will not, and do not, microwave in styrofoam containers.
We make everything fresh (come in and see for yourself) but we do have a microwave on our premises. It’s the nature of the restaurant business. And so you may, from time to time, see us using a microwave but, you will never see is us using styrofoam in a microwave… period!
Google Us
If you Google “Fresh Mexican Food Albuquerque” we come up #1 on the search results page.*
Sure we have good “SEO” (whatever that means) and we’re blogging, and twittering, and talking a lot about how our food is indeed fresh. But the fact is we have good, authentic, fresh mexican food!
So “google us” sure. But do more than that, come in, order, watch your food be prepared in our Open Kitchen, and you’ll see what the difference is. It’s a night and day difference.
*at the time of this posting
Don’t Get Lost
The season finale of the hit ABC television series, “LOST”, has come and gone. There are a lot of people who “get” LOST, the show that is. And, similarly, there are some people who “get lost” when trying to find one of our two “Open Kitchen” locations here in Albuquerque, and understandably so.
Fact is there are more than two locations of Taco Cabana in Albuquerque, NM. It’s also a fact, however, that there are only two locations that have the true “Open Kitchen” experience. What is that makes those two locations so different? Well, for one, you can see your food being prepared while you wait. So you know it’s fresh, and where it comes from — unlike some places (and islands) we have no secrets.
So whether you “get” LOST or not, we hope you won’t “get lost” when you’re ready for authentic, fresh, mexican food.
Remember, we’re at the corner of Wyoming and Montgomery, and on San Mateo just North of Academy.
Join the Food Revolution!
Many of you knew Jamie Oliver as “the Naked Chef” — which he warns against ever actually cooking in the nude — and some of you have seen his recent show on ABC “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution“, and more of you yet may have never heard of him until now.
Jamie is a chef from the United Kingdom who has made it his mission in life to use his celebrity for good. He started in England, revamping the school lunch program there to rid it of processed, frozen foods and replace them with freshly prepared menus full of healthy, real ingredients. You may not realize the enormity of this goal, but he accomplished it throughout a great area in the U.K. and then he came here, to the U.S. to do the same thing.
His success in starting a “food revolution” in the states has been dynamic and wonderful. His goals are simple; get rid of processed, frozen foods which have ingredients lists that read like a medical journal, and replace them with healthy, real, fresh ingredients and meals made from such. That’s the revolution. That’s what he’s trying to get all of America to do. Schools, families, communities, he wants us to be a healthier nation who cooks again.
The statistics he talks about on the show were pretty scary. The fact that this generation of school age children actually have a shorter life expectancy than their parents — something never before true in recorded history. The fact that America is getting more and more unhealthy as we get fatter and fatter is not good. But the good news is we can change it! YOU can change it! You can be PART OF this “food revolution!”
So how can you be a part of the “food revolution?”
First, visit this website and sign the petition to save America’s cooking skills and improve school food.
Second, visit one of Taco Cabana’s two “Open Kitchen” locations in Albuquerque, NM and watch us prepare your food fresh, right in front of you!
You see, just like Jamie’s Kitchen, our “Open Kitchen” locations make everything fresh. We don’t use processed, frozen foods. In fact, if you want to know how many calories are in one of our items, just look it up on the web. If it has eggs, look up eggs… if it has beans, look up beans… chicken, chicken… and so on and so on. You won’t have to guess what else we add or how we prepare it because we don’t add anything that’s not natural and we prepare it right in front of you!
In a way the Taco Cabana open kitchens have been a part of the food revolution for over a decade now. And we’re not ashamed to say we’re glad everyone else is finally catching onto what makes good food good!
