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Trombino's Bistro Italiano
5415 Academy Road Northeast, Albuquerque, NM | Map it
(505) 796-6208 | View Website
5415 Academy Road Northeast, Albuquerque, NM | Map it
(505) 796-6208 | View Website
Best Italian Food I have found in Albuquerque. The service is always professional...and the food is excellent....really the best Italian food I have found in Albuquerque. Pricing is fair and reasonable too. I have truly enjoyed this place everytime I have come here...excellent Value! Highly recommend!…
The real thing. Some Italian friends of mine visited from Boston Massachusetts and said it was the best Italian food they'd had in years.
Go to Italy first before you open a restaurant. 'For the owner and chef: I am a journalist based in NY who has traveled all over the world. I care about food passionately and know a lot about different types of cuisine. I am considering moving to NM and am concerned that the food is not up to what it could be, i.e., places that claim to be ""French"" or ""Italian"" are really just Americanized versions and pale imitations of what can really be offered from the regions in both these countries. Are you familiar with Mario Batali and the various restaurants he runs? He has a fierce commitment to an authentic Italian dining experience. (google his name for the link) These places menus ARE incredible and a great inspiration for other restaurateurs across the nation. They set the standard. Perhaps you would consider tweaking your menu somewhat, or even opening a small trattoria perhaps? (see his restaurant Lupa, and its menu) Albuquerque is a great town in so many ways--it's about time it became known also for its food in the same way Portland, OR has become known...…
Good service and...well...cute.. We have heard a lot about this restaurant and finally got a chance to visit it. We had great service, but the food wasn't what I expected, but it was good. We have had better calamari and fettucini alfredo. I expected a better ambience, but otherwise it was cute and the bar area looked nice and the menu and prices were appropriate for the quality and restaurant style. It was kind of cheaply decorated, but cute and slightly romantic. It could definitely be done better for ambience though. Love the location - just off I-25 and San Mateo.…
Impressive Italian Food. I have long been skeptical about Italian food-I didn't really see the big deal about mounds of noodles smothered with flavorless red sauce and dusty faux-Parmesan cheese that comprises most Americans' exposure to the cuisine of the second greatest food culture on Earth. Of course, I knew there was greatness out there, but I had to smell it, see it, taste it first. Trombino's was a revelation-it actually impressed me. First came the coffee. Unlike most restaurant coffee, which you just know came in little packages of brown dust that produce a beverage closer to motor oil that something a human being should actually drink, this coffee was full-bodied, complex and lustrous-and a good cup of coffee puts me and my palate in a state of readied contentedness that no substance could improve upon. Then came the appetizer-calamari. This old Italian warhorse suffers too much at the hands of the incompetent but this calamari was everything you'd expect-crispy, warm, and, forgoing the more cliched marinara sauce, dizzled with a garlic sauce that was completely delicious. One of the finest appetizers in existence. Then came the entrees-mine was lobster ravioli, with shrimp and lobster sauce. I must say, I have never been given pause by shrimp in this water-starved town, but these were real shrimp-they were not the tasteless crustaceans one gets so used to-they were tiny but filled with that delicious and unmistakable sea taste-slightly briny, salty and breezy. The portion for mine was not huge but after so much bread and calamari, I was quite grateful for this. My fellow diners ordered various things, but I must comment on the mashed potatoes-they were fabulous! I have been raised on honest-to-God, homemade mashed potatoes, and these babies, lightly infused with garlic, were maybe even better than homemade-no packaged mashed potatoes here, I can assure you. I'm running out of characters, but I think I've made my point-go to Trombino's! Now! You won't hate me in the morning.…
