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Trombino's Bistro Italiano

5415 Academy Rd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109
Phone: (505) 821-5974
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Special Occasion Dining 2006

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Trombino's Bistro Italiano

"More Taste To Your Life Since 1979"

  • Local Favorite
  • Great Date Place
  • Sunday Brunch Menu

Busy with a corporate/casual crowd at lunch, the evening is then filled with locals, savvy business travelers, and tourists that gather to this inviting neighborhood place... The anonymous exterior gives way to a warm, inviting, upscale interior of exposed brick with broken plaster walls filled with Trompeloeil Murals reminiscent of an Italian Piazza. The warm, aromatic, homemade Italian Bread is addictive. The rich Italian menu features fresh seafood, steaks, grilled pork chops, chicken as well as homemade Italian sausage, and pastas, all prepared using tried and true family recipes. This restaurant has won local awards including ATM Best of the City 2005 Best Italian Restaurant; alibi, The Readers Choice Restaurant Poll 2005 Best Italian; and Crosswinds Weekly 2006 Readers Restaurant Picks, Best Italian Restaurant, and the Best of Citysearch 2005 Italian Food.

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Editorial Description for Trombino's Bistro Italiano

Since 1979 has served authentic Italian cuisine, including pasta, seafood, steak and chicken, made from family recipes in an upscale setting.

User Reviews for Trombino's Bistro Italiano

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4 Star Rating: Recommended

06/30/2007 Posted by ang4unc

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.

Pros: Price, Food, Location, Service

Cons: Cheaply decorated

5 Star Rating: Highly Recommended

10/23/2006 Posted by amatrixpueri

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.

Pros: Great ambience, food, service

Cons: perhaps a bit pricey for large groups

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Since 1979 has served authentic Italian cuisine, including pasta, seafood, steak and chicken, made from family recipes in an upscale setting.  See the full editorial review.

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Restaurant Information

Payment Types

  • Visa
  • MasterCard
  • American Express
  • Discover

Cuisines

  • Italian

Amenities

  • Lunch Spot
  • Date Spot
  • Romantic Dining
  • Notable Wine List
  • Fine Dining
  • Special Occasion Dining

Recognition for Trombino's Bistro Italiano

2006 Audience Winner - Special Occasion Dining

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