Placitas Cafe

9514 221 NM-165, Placitas
(505) 771-1700

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Mr Happy

Western New Mexican, great location.
Great menu and atmosphere 👽🤠

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

N N

If you enjoy being blatantly ignored, receiving some real hard dirty looks, paying absurdly high prices for your food, and being made to feel totally and completely unwelcome, THIS PLACE IS FOR YOU! ✅ Is there an indicator for rude service? 5 out of 5 stars for that! 🌟

Ronald Johnson

John the owner puts out a menu in the true NM flavors that are unparalleled be prepared to have the largest best BURRITO EVER JUST PHENOMENAL 🫵

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Misty Illingworth

When we walked in there was no one told us to seat ourselves, so we just stood in the entry way for about five minutes before another customer told us to just sit down. We ordered fish tacos and pulled pork sliders. For $16 you would think you would get more than one piece of fish and store bought coleslaw. It was inedible. The pulled pork was meat and bread with so much sauce you couldn’t taste anything else. The food is seriously over priced and the quality is terrible.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 2

Dominic Montes

Great experience

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Anthony the singer

Food was very good it's worth coming here for breakfast & lunch

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

l l

Nice spot for breakfast and lunch, fun decor

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Jaap van Rijn

Out of the way hidden gem! Excellent service and great food. Had the Spam breakfast, comes with bacon, eggs, potatoes, English muffin and tasty Spam! The Debbie's Scrabble with rye bread is also super yummy. Dog friendly porch. Definite recommend!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Janny Benthin

Great place for breakfast. The huevos rancheros was awesome, and the red chili was just right!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Red Chile

Marcia Andre

We had dinner here this week and enjoyed our meal. The dinner menu is simple with only a few entrees. We both chose the ribs which were moist and delicious. Sides are offered at an extra price. We had a side salad and roasted vegetables which we shared. The service was excellent, and the food came out surprisingly fast. This was our first time with the newish dinner menu although we've enjoyed breakfast and lunch on prior visits. The restaurant was spotless and tidy, even though there is a staffing shortage. We will be back soon!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

sacha remling

Pure Placitan mastery.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Elliot Mcilhaney

This is not your normal review; this is an internal review. I was working at this café, and my experience with the owner, John, was quite negative. He was often rude and sarcastic with his employees, which created a tense work environment. He would micromanage even the smallest tasks, making it difficult to feel comfortable doing my job. For instance, one time I was carefully putting chili on a burrito, holding the plate over the pan to avoid spills. John yelled at me from across the kitchen to stop and stomped over in a passive-aggressive rage, insisting that I do it his way. He wanted me to take the ladle of chili across other plates instead of holding the plate over the pan, which seemed counterproductive to me. After I followed his instructions, he still found a way to get upset, complaining that there was chili on the to-go box. Additionally, there was a serious health code violation I noticed. John was responsible for putting away the truck orders, and I saw ground beef stored directly next to bread on the same shelf. The ground beef was positioned right above produce, and you could visibly see the cross-contamination from drops of blood dripping down onto the green chili. When I brought this to John's attention, he responded in a passive-aggressive manner, which was frustrating. Instead of addressing the issue, he seemed irritated that I pointed it out. (attached is a picture of blood drops on a case of green chili) Before I left, I spoke with his wife, who mentioned that he is under a lot of stress because one of his employees switched their schedule for school. While I can understand that running a business can be stressful, as a business owner, he should be able to adjust the workload to manage that stress without taking it out on hard-working employees. Overall, my experience working with John was very negative. His unprofessional behavior and lack of respect for health standards made it hard to work in a productive and safe environment.

Eileen Baca-Penner

Love breakfast and lunch menus. Dinner not so much. Wish same menu was available for dinner and we would probably visit more often.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 3

Antonette Parrillo

Food is always good. Service is usually slow but this last visit it was better. Everything is overpriced.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Chips and Salsa

Kody Gordon

Used to love this place, but now it has gone completely downhill, management is rude, food has been poorly made, environment was dirty, service was slow, these visits weren't during peak hours. Very unfortunate to see this for the 4th time in a row, place used to actually be good.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

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