The dining experience at ACEQ was exceptional yesterday evening, from the attentive service to the entrees, through to the dessert. ACEQ is now on our 'favorites" list, and we look forward to our next visit!
Bryan
Food and service was fantastic. Waiter was great and had wonderful recommendations for both food and wine! Will definitely come back again when in Taos.
Pamela
Aceq is my favorite restaurant in Taos: food and people! The only thing that is not so great is the noise level when the restaurant is full.
ROBERT
Wonderful, fun experience at the chefs' table, with fun happy hour food and drink selections. The best of an intimate community experience at our counter and with the kitchen. Staff was ube welcoming and accommodating.
Joe
JJ was OUTSTANDING!!!! Give this lady a raise, a BIG one! I gave a 3 on ambiance becuase the must was loud; we didn't recognize that our 6 top was under a speaker.
Brent
Regular fav for everyone I know. I do have to comment this visit and last couple of visits my food has been served too lukewarm. It's perfect in every way but not even hot, but cooked well, so says to me they don't have a warmer and or let ready to serve food sit around too long. I'd send back, but it m sure it would take forever so I suck it up.
Nancy Ouimet
One of the better dining experiences I’ve had, and in such a small, remote village! Heading up to Taos Ski Area is the small village of Arroyo Seco. This place is magical! And in this very tiny village sits this lovely, sincere restaurant, Aceq. They seem to pride themselves on wild caught, local, or farm specific…annd the staff each seem like owners! We had a variety of offerings, including perfect cocktails, shareable plates, and entrees. The experience was near perfect.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Stan
Food was exceptional and service top notch. The place has a great vibe and it is apparent the staff enjoy working there.
Kitty Locke
I came in to ACEQ by myself, early for my reservation and luckily they were able to seat me right away in the main dining room. Note that the happy hour menu is only available in the bar.
All of the staff I interacted with were warm, polite and helpful. The drinks were perfect.
Overall the food was good, but there were a couple little details that made me decide on 4 stars, mostly because it's pricey and well regarded and the little things matter to me.
The elote corn ribs were cooked well but they needed salt, there wasn't enough cotija to make up for the unseasoned corn. And there are no salt shakers on the tables. The mole was great though.
So then I ordered the lamb small plate and the Butternut squash gnocchi. After a long while the server comes and says that they do not have the gnocchi tonight actually. So I get the Brussels sprouts instead. And it took a pretty long time for the food to come after that.
The lamb was tender and cooked properly in my opinion, seasoned nicely. But the pea puree that was piped on the plate was kinda crusty like it had been on there a while, it was okay. The pickled red onions were good but the only sign of chimichurri I could find was some big chunks of herb stems.
The Brussels sprouts were perfectly cooked, caramelized, crunchy. They had a good amount of cheese and pickled red onion, but there were like 4 marinated raisins and barley any almonds on them, which made me sad because the couple bites I got with all the elements were so good.
At this point I'd been there an hour and twenty minutes and I wanted dessert but I was anxious because it says on the menu not to stay longer than an hour and a half. I asked and they said I was fine, which is good because I just had a starter and a main and it wasn't really my fault I was there so long.
I ordered a creme brulee for desert and they knocked that out of the park. I thought the custard was the perfect texture, I loved the sweetness level and the vanilla flavor.
Overall I had a nice time and would go again if I lived in the area. Just a few little things.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
SJ
They need to figure out how to keep food warm before it gets to the table. First order of fries was cold, I mentioned it and they replaced them with even colder ones. Not sure if they just sat a long time or what. Nice atmosphere, friendly staff.
We enjoyed another tasty meal tonight at ACEQ in the bar seating area - this time with a view of the hard working chefs and staff spinning their craft in the micro kitchen area, plating each dish, adding final sauces and engaging with each other and guests. We are lucky to have ACEQ as our neighborhood eatery.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Tiffany DeLuna
Divine!! Every plate was well balanced and steak cooked to perfection, and service was good!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Stuart
Great, innovative yet comforty food and accomodating to my allergy. No wonder it was so highly recommended. Would 100% go back when I'm in the area again.
Craig S
We went for Thanksgiving and had a traditional dinner, so I didn't try their normal menu. Food and drink were great. Friendly service.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Thomas Clark
Just a wonderful place. The food was delicious and a little expensive.
The dining experience at ACEQ was exceptional yesterday evening, from the attentive service to the entrees, through to the dessert. ACEQ is now on our 'favorites" list, and we look forward to our next visit!
Food and service was fantastic. Waiter was great and had wonderful recommendations for both food and wine! Will definitely come back again when in Taos.
Aceq is my favorite restaurant in Taos: food and people! The only thing that is not so great is the noise level when the restaurant is full.
Wonderful, fun experience at the chefs' table, with fun happy hour food and drink selections. The best of an intimate community experience at our counter and with the kitchen. Staff was ube welcoming and accommodating.
JJ was OUTSTANDING!!!! Give this lady a raise, a BIG one! I gave a 3 on ambiance becuase the must was loud; we didn't recognize that our 6 top was under a speaker.
Regular fav for everyone I know. I do have to comment this visit and last couple of visits my food has been served too lukewarm. It's perfect in every way but not even hot, but cooked well, so says to me they don't have a warmer and or let ready to serve food sit around too long. I'd send back, but it m sure it would take forever so I suck it up.
One of the better dining experiences I’ve had, and in such a small, remote village!
Heading up to Taos Ski Area is the small village of Arroyo Seco. This place is magical!
And in this very tiny village sits this lovely, sincere restaurant, Aceq.
They seem to pride themselves on wild caught, local, or farm specific…annd the staff each seem like owners!
We had a variety of offerings, including perfect cocktails, shareable plates, and entrees. The experience was near perfect.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Food was exceptional and service top notch. The place has a great vibe and it is apparent the staff enjoy working there.
I came in to ACEQ by myself, early for my reservation and luckily they were able to seat me right away in the main dining room. Note that the happy hour menu is only available in the bar.
All of the staff I interacted with were warm, polite and helpful. The drinks were perfect.
Overall the food was good, but there were a couple little details that made me decide on 4 stars, mostly because it's pricey and well regarded and the little things matter to me.
The elote corn ribs were cooked well but they needed salt, there wasn't enough cotija to make up for the unseasoned corn. And there are no salt shakers on the tables. The mole was great though.
So then I ordered the lamb small plate and the Butternut squash gnocchi. After a long while the server comes and says that they do not have the gnocchi tonight actually. So I get the Brussels sprouts instead. And it took a pretty long time for the food to come after that.
The lamb was tender and cooked properly in my opinion, seasoned nicely. But the pea puree that was piped on the plate was kinda crusty like it had been on there a while, it was okay. The pickled red onions were good but the only sign of chimichurri I could find was some big chunks of herb stems.
The Brussels sprouts were perfectly cooked, caramelized, crunchy. They had a good amount of cheese and pickled red onion, but there were like 4 marinated raisins and barley any almonds on them, which made me sad because the couple bites I got with all the elements were so good.
At this point I'd been there an hour and twenty minutes and I wanted dessert but I was anxious because it says on the menu not to stay longer than an hour and a half. I asked and they said I was fine, which is good because I just had a starter and a main and it wasn't really my fault I was there so long.
I ordered a creme brulee for desert and they knocked that out of the park. I thought the custard was the perfect texture, I loved the sweetness level and the vanilla flavor.
Overall I had a nice time and would go again if I lived in the area. Just a few little things.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
They need to figure out how to keep food warm before it gets to the table. First order of fries was cold, I mentioned it and they replaced them with even colder ones. Not sure if they just sat a long time or what. Nice atmosphere, friendly staff.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 3
Service: 3
Restaurantji Recommends
We enjoyed another tasty meal tonight at ACEQ in the bar seating area - this time with a view of the hard working chefs and staff spinning their craft in the micro kitchen area, plating each dish, adding final sauces and engaging with each other and guests. We are lucky to have ACEQ as our neighborhood eatery.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Divine!! Every plate was well balanced and steak cooked to perfection, and service was good!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great, innovative yet comforty food and accomodating to my allergy. No wonder it was so highly recommended. Would 100% go back when I'm in the area again.
We went for Thanksgiving and had a traditional dinner, so I didn't try their normal menu. Food and drink were great. Friendly service.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Just a wonderful place. The food was delicious and a little expensive.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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