Ana's Kitchen — Restaurant in New Mexico

We have been eating at Anna's for years now. We have been eating here since 2016. They had a different location when we first started eating there. Our business is just a few blocks away. We order takeout all the time. Sometimes we go in to eat. We love Anna herself as well as her staff. Everyone's very friendly and there's always wonderful service. They have the best carne asada, wonderful chile rellenos, rice, beans, pancakes, bacon, and many other food items. The salsa and chips are phenomenal. This is a must try establishment. I left a review several years ago, and I guess it disappeared. I wonder if Google takes off the reviews after so many years. They shouldn't. I'm happy to leave a new review. The other review was a good review, and so...

Okay where do I start with this place? Let's start with how people come in through the back door which is the kitchen and stand there and talk to the cook and I assume the owner? People like dirty filthy construction workers, friends with kids, playing running back and forth from the kitchen to the dining room, and regular customers! Horrifying! Next the food.... the ground beef in the tacos are drenched in oil, every bite drips and drips of oil. That's all you could taste, the oil from the hamburger meat. My partner ordered the red beef enchiladas, the chile was not of this earth. It was thick like rue with an orange tinge, no flavor no nothing! If I could give this a 1 through 10, I would give it a negative...

This is a good little place. It doesn't look like much from the outside but they have really good food. The carnitas tacos is what I had and I posted a picture of it below came with beans and rice for $8.25 and the can of soda was a $1.50. I don't know if they charge for a second can of soda or not, I didn't ask. But most restaurants are charging almost $3 for so does nowadays so it's probably about the same either way if you had 2. I was a little surprised at the prices but still pretty good food. The chips and salsa were really good, and came free...