For lunch today some of my coworkers took me to El Modelo’s. It’s in a particularly hard-core part of Barelas, right by the railyard, and the lunchtime crowd there was heavily old-school Hispanic. We ordered stuffed sopaipillas, which are their specialty, and they turned out to be excellent and amazingly filling (and cheap; less than $3 each!). The people in our party who had been there before said that the service is usually extremely fast, but while we were there the sopaipilla machine apparently broke and it took them 40 minutes to get us our food, making us late getting back to the office. It was totally worth it, though. If you’re ever in Barelas, give it a try.
July 10, 2007
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Huh. In Texas, I’ve always encountered it spelled as “sopapilla”. I’ve never had a sopapilla I thought was good. Then again, I’ve probably only had them from a couple places. The one pictured on Wikipedia looks delicious.
Comment by pdf23ds — July 12, 2007 @ 6:13 pm |
You can get some very good ones in NM (and plenty of mediocre ones as well). Like that Wikipedia article says, they’re an important part of the local cuisine.
Comment by teofilo — July 13, 2007 @ 12:27 am |