The New Mexicans — Restaurant in Everett

I found them under Vegan options. NO Vegan options. So we ate meat. Only one of us liked our meal- not very tasty for a meat place! Cornbread and pulled pork sandwich very good. Service friendly. Ice tea not good. Why is good ice tea hard to find. PLEASE remove yourself for Vegan options searches if you don’t have them. HERE IS AN UPDATE/RESPONSE TO OWNER: I appreciate that you read these but you need to know that the issue here is that I found your restaurant by typing in the word "Vegan" - undo this word from your descriptors on this search engine. Simply extracting animal products from a regular menu item so that it is simply a tortilla with beans in it and added veggies is not really what vegan people are looking for when they put in the search option "Vegan"! What is: A restaurant who specializes in Vegan food or at least has a vegan section on the menu with food designed to taste good as vegan food. Not food just without things. We don't want to pay restaurant prices for a bean burrito that you left most of the good tasting food out of. The result is that you will keep on getting people into your restaurant that are disappointed and frustrated that they went out of their way to get by on what you had to offer them. This helps no one. More evidence that you aren't ready for vegans: I'm not sure that you understand that Vegetarian is very different from Vegan. Is your sauce Vegetarian or vegan? If you offer me Vegetarian sauce, I assume it has no meat but might have butter or honey. People who cater to Vegans know this. This is what I was searching for. Whenever you try to optimize to get-people-in for your vegan concession you distract us from finding the food that we are looking for. It is fine that you don't have good options for Vegans. Just don't make it look like you do! By your definition, any restaurant could remove things and describe themselves as "vegan" - we have no way to search for those places that really do specialize. Do not optimize for "Vegan". Instead put on the menu for those people who happen to show up: "Items can be made vegan friendly. Please ask." But, then you need to have a server that really knows what to do with Vegan customers. We were not even told you could do that veggie thingy. I might come back to your restaurant if I am eating vegan with a group of people who are not. I expect its not gonna be so good tasting for me. But, at least I'll get to eat with my meat eating friends. Thank you...

The New Mexicans. Sigh.

I am from New Mexico. I fly down to buy Hatch Green in the fall, pack it in my luggage and fly it back. To me Thanksgiving is Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas made with Hatch Green and not a Turkey.

I see New Mexicans giving New Mexicans low stars to this place and I both agree and disagree that is why 4 stars.

Their food actually pretty good from a culinary perspective. Their extra * is because they have large portions of Good food. You will get your money worth. I super Lover their Loco-Moco (a Hawiaan dish).

Being from New Mexico I always get asked about their food and I have to temper my answer and not actually compare it to any New Mexican establishment. This is not food you will get in Santa Fe, or Albuquerque, or Las Cruces, or Taos, or Socorro.

Now what you will get. Hatch Green Chile from a can... I don't mean this a put down or insult or to say it is bad. Green Chile pods takes effort to process, store, and cook from a New Mexican perspective and are hard to get here in the PNW.

Their food is very tasty, but since I know the difference and I can taste the difference - it is hard. Think of me as someone from Iowa commenting on canned corn vs fresh corn cobs off the stalk... It will never be the same.

They have a Hatch Red Chile which is spicy and good. They have both vegetarian and meat versions and both are good - I have had them both. Their Green Chile Burger was Fantastic!

They have Good food. They have Very good food!

New Mexicans quit dishing against this place. They have good food.

Everybody else try it.

Unless you can taste the difference between cinnamon vs cassia and have lived with the difference The New Mexicans...

The food is here is much like the holiday turkey in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”, it looks pretty, you poke it, and a desiccated carcass reveals an irredeemable meal. Truly one full star for the kind, friendly women. The wandering male owner pulled the bartender away from her extremely busy service to complain in front of me that I was using one of the (unused) barstools located in their hallway (his wife had retrieved it.) The presence of hatch chiles does not automatically grant flavor, and the carne asada burrito, inconceivably completely lukewarm throughout, had only two interior elements: boring beef slices and congealed, sticky, unflavored white rice. In a Asian-fusion restaurant, it might have indicated the quirky play on Japanese immigrant farmers in those dusty, parched Southern New Mexico chile fields, but in this burrito, it was simply unseasoned, unsauced, odd, boring, cold and dispersed with gristle fat from an uninspired cook. The sauce on the outside, with melted cheese, was ok. How was it so cold? If I was asked at any point how my meal was...but I wasn’t. A burrito that cold indicates precooked meat and rice, likely sitting at wrong temperatures. The margarita was probably the second worst I’ve ever had. $30 for one person: a small drink and a burrito. I won’t be back. Don't ever complain about customers in front of them, particularly when they are doing nothing wrong. P.S. Even if a restaurant can’t, quite understandably, afford paint or newer barstools, they could at least hide their huge boxes of random mail, magazines, personal letters from the government, and clean their employee’s half eaten snacks...