Opening day indoors for restaurants in New Mexico
Breweries still feel left out
Breweries still feel left out
Breweries still feel left out
Slapfish in Albuquerque, just like all the other restaurants in New Mexico have been closed on the inside for 10 weeks, but for the first time since then, they were able to have dine-in service.
KOAT talked to the owner about how the first day went.
“Finally got to open. The governor gave us the go-ahead. Got both restaurants professionally cleaned. We're practicing our social distancing, always wearing our gloves and our masks, definitely taking care of the guests and supper excited to have some normalcy and be back open. It's great,” Slapfish owner Eric Wilson said.
Meanwhile, the owner of Mary and Tito's Cafe, which has been in Albuquerque since 1963, said it’s still too soon for dine-in service.
But she believes the state as a whole is trending in the right direction.
“I feel safer doing curbside and just trying it, doing curbside for maybe two weeks and see how it goes with other restaurants opening at 50% capacity,” Antoinette Knight said.
Meanwhile, breweries don't have the option as they are limited to just curbside and delivery.
That's frustrating for the owner of The 377 Brewery, which also has a full restaurant inside.
“I don't understand why you can get a tattoo where people basically have blood coming off of their arm, and wipe that off, but you can't sit across from somebody, 6 feet apart and have a beer and have a burger,” owner Cliff Sandoval said.