Church Street Cafe Review

One of my favorite places to eat in Old Town, the Church Street Cafe is more than a coffee shop. They serve first class Mexican food and provide a cozy southwestern ambiance all the while. Their excellent wait staff knows what they're doing, too.

Little insider tip for Mexican food. You can also sit outside in the backyard.

The only place we were served chips and salsa for free in NM. Food was excellent, big portions, great flavor good choices. Server was friendly and recommended great food. Freshness of food was great.

Everything was delicious. The service is questionable.

We had a organization thank you party here. It was a thank you dinner for those that produced sales for "Slate sales during Medicare open enrollment. I ordered a combination plate to try a little of everything. I have never been to this place before. The service was great, the food was hot and flavorful. The chili was mild, I like it hot. So if you want to take guest's from out of town. Make Church Street Cafe one of your selections.

Food was great. Moderately priced. Wait time to be seated on a Sunday was about 20 minutes. Worth the wait

Truly awful. The server was indifferent, the food below average. She recommended the "zucchini and corn in a light butter sauce" turned out to be zucchini mush- boiled until inedible. Their specialty of chile rellenos was covered in orange cheese. I asked the server what kind of green chile they had- did it have pork in it? She said " oh you know New Mexico chile". My wifes taco salad was sad. I wish we had gone to taco bell, it would have been better.

Excellent food and service, very deceiving from the front. It looks like a little cafe, but there is a very impressive restaurant behind the facade.

Not bad. Beautiful patio is where we ate. We had the dog with us.

Old towns best place to eat! Of the handful of times we've eaten here, it has been spectacular on each occasion. For dinner or breakfasts everything was fantastic from the friendly service to the perfectly prepared meals and finely crafted cocktails. Always a treat, recommend the Navajo tacos and margaritas or carne con huevos. The pancakes are stellar as well.

Oh agave peach margarita amazing great taste smooth chile rellano awesome

Don't be deceived by the small appearance of the patio dining and entrance! This is by far my favorite restaurant in Old Town since the food is reasonably priced, portions are large and the service is always good. I typically visit once a week when wandering around the Old Town area.

Not up to their usual portions.

Thank you for your response! I will try again.

Enjoyed a wonderful lunch on the back patio of this place. The carne adovado plate was tasty, the service here was accommodating. My mom s chicken taco salad was prepared perfectly.

Food was different from what our local Mexican restaurants serve. It was a bit more spicy than what I am accustomed to eating. Great atmosphere and excellent service.

Neat place, always go here when family comes to town for good local food.

Church Street Cafe has a wonderful ambience and such good food! Our waiter Sherman was so sweet and really took care of us, like we were old friends! We loved the guitar player that played during dinner, it made the whole experience idyllic. I will definitely be back when I go to Albuquerque next.

Good food, service wasn t great. One of the better places in Old Town, though. The sopapillas and fry bread have a lot of sugar in the dough so they re sweeter than normal.

Excellent dining experience!! Service, atmosphere, margs and food awesome

The food is okay. I kept going back hoping to find something that i would really like. It s priced high for what you re getting but the last time I took the family we waited over 20 min and no one addressed us. When I got someone s attention I was told that my waitress would be right with us and she never came. We left and we gave not returned.

Pretty good food. Service was decent. Overall, if you like spicey food you are in the right place. I loved the sopaillas and enchiladas in the red sauce but the green sauce would have been too spicy for me. We asked for samples of the sauces with our chips bc we have youngish kids. The chicken fajitas looked delicious but were too bland. Maybe people throw sauce on them? My husband thought it was on menu description but sauce was not provided until he requested some.

A little understaffed but servers were great. Food was excellent.

Amazing food and fabulous service! Highly recommended!

Food was really good. Waiter was incredible. The local outdoor cats were super adorable.

The food was amazing, it had a nice comfort food feel as the building is very old. The service was good, the waiter was attentive to our group of 5 in the corner.

You can't go wrong at Church Street Cafe. It's a great meeting spot for business or pleasure and of course if you have tourists visiting bring them there :-).

Food, Service, and Atmosphere -- totally superb! Well worth the cost!

Authentic New Mexican cuisine! Family- owned and operated.

Very unsafe area. Had our bike stolen. Police said crime is commonplace in Old Town. Will never return.

Owner sat with my party and discussed the history of old town another great place to eat n new mexico. Good chile and service.

Service was horrible. We waited a good 20 minutes before we even got our orders taken. Never got our appetizers until 45 minutes later. It was well over an hour before we were served our food. The food was ok but definitely not the best Mexican food I ve had. Half of our party also did not get what we ordered. One of our party members had to return her food and have it taken off the ticket because after 1 1/2 hours we couldn t wait for our order to be fixed. It was a mess and I would never recommend eating here. .

A little hard to get to, but once you find it it's a very cool building with lots of seating. They also have a very nice patio with live music on certain days. The food was very good, particularly their sopapillas.

Poppin' a cherry! First time here and it was good. In the heart of old town a gem. I had huevos rancheros christmas; red and green chili, both are delicious! I 2 spots now 3 in the while city where I love the red chili. Friends had taco plate with shredded beef red, enchiladas red with chicken, breakfast burrito. The food is tasty! Margaritas are made with agave wine, not too bad.

Very authentic New Mexico menu with original recipes. The wait staff was very accommodating and friendly.

A pretty but narrow entrance leads you, surprisingly, to several connected and beautifully set rooms of a rather large u shaped hacienda with a nice open courtyard also. Good quality new mexican cuisine, slightly on the spicy side for the uninitiated. Tasty!

This had great reviews online and from locals so I was eager to check it out. Fun decor, much bigger on the inside than it appears from the front. Really delicious combo platter of tamale, enchilada, and chile relleno. I didn t care for the vegetables. My server was friendly and helpful, but didn t hover so I had a nice long meal.

Expensive! When you charge $11.50 for a Navajo taco and not even put beef on it without another $1. I think you are a little full of yourselves! Come back to reality....

Beautiful historic adobe building and garden. Excellent, reasonably-priced menu. Always excellent service.

We recommend sharing the combo plate. Great flavors, service, and beautiful architecture.

I saw this restaurant on a TV show back in Australia and thought to myself then that I was going to this place. So I did and I don't regret it. Food was fresh and delicious, staff friendly. Will be back. P.s. I recommend the steak fajitas!

I love this place! Atmosphere is relaxing, margaritas are made just right, and the carne adovada is to die for!

Great service, huge servings so certainly enough to take home for dinner part two!

Food excellent.
Waiter could have been more on the ball

Fantastic food,drinks, atmosphere, service, it was great.

Excellent food. They have plenty of outdoor patio seating in the back with lots of shade. Food was timely and well done. Service was a little slow.

Totally impressed! Was told to go here on my way through town, and loved the food! Would highly recommend!

Food was good service was good food pricing was reasonable

Man did we really want to like this place. It was recommended by our hotel.

After waiting for 20 mins, we were taken to a table in a back room. The place was busy, but there were at least 6-7 empty tables. Once we were seated, the waitress took another 20 minutes to acknowledge our existence. She and a second waitress managed to bungle our drink order (a frozen margarita and a tea). They messed it up twice, and we had to ask for lemons 4 times.

After finally receiving our drinks (no lemons) we seemed to become invisible again.

We finally flagged someone down to take our food order, and were told that they were out of taco shells. This after being in the place for an hour...

The food must be good, as they are busy. We wouldn t know.

However, even great food couldn t compensate for the poor service and understaffing.

One of our favorites in ABQ! The food and service is positively consistent. The restaurant itself is gorgeous, never tire of walking through the property. Antonio is a stand out server. Thank you, Church Street Cafe.

Relaxing atmosphere on the patio. Water feature is soothing. Cold beer and delicious food!

What a lovely place. Great atmosphere, all food came out fast, and service was super friendly. Every dish had large portion of meat, and great flavoring. Also, glad they had seating available during quarantine. Everyone was spaced out and wearing masks. We are so happy we stopped in!

Beautiful old building, live music, sopapillas were delicious!

After our party of four was seated the server told us we had 15 minutes before the kitchen closed so hurry and order. We were visiting from another state and didn't realize the restaurant closed on Sunday at 4 pm. I wish they would have turned us away instead. The server was abrupt and crabby which made the dining experience uncomfortable. Otherwise food was tasty and atmosphere good.

Great food and patio. Hope dogs will invited onto the patio soon,.

Good food. Nice atmosphere with history.
Tables are close but no problem with bumping into others.

Great food, atmosphere and service. This is the place to go on the plaza.

Yum. Awesome chips and salsa! I ordered combo plate. Good pork tamale and cheese enchilada.

We were surprised at how big the restaurant was, because it seemed small from the outside and we had no previous information about it. It was very well decorated, and the cover of the menu gave interesting facts about the building and the family that it had belonged to since the founding of Albuquerque.

We were there at a slow time (10 a.m.), so we didn't have to wait for a table, and the service was good. The food was very good (huevos rancheros, pancakes, a cinnamon roll the size of a dinner plate, ... and fried ice cream because we had never tried it before and we wanted to see what it was and how it was made). The portions were very big (like in all restaurants in the US), and everything was delicious, even the pancakes, which are usually not worth mentioning.

So, try to go there at a slow time, when you can enjoy your meal at a leisurely pace and then look at the different elements of the decor more closely.

Atmosphere is amazing. Great place to stop for food if you're in Old Town. Food is great and prices are reasonable. Easy recommendation.

I love this restaurant for the atmosphere and New Mexican food. Service is always great. Food is closest to real New Mexican than other restaurants in Old Town. I love their menudo (beware, its not for everyone though). It is a little pricey and is in the middle of a tourist trap though.

Hector was amazing! His customer service was top notch!