Award-winning Juarez burger from Jack-n-GrillJust got off the phone with a gobsmacked Jack Martinez, the patriarch behind Jack-n-Grill, the family-owned New Mexican joint at 2524 Federal Boulevard whose gut-busting seven-pound burrito, recently featured on the Travel Channel's Man v. Food, was apparently a prelude to bigger and better things to come--a colossal shout out from Food Network magazine, for example, which just published a state-by-state guide of the fifty best burgers in America, wit
One of my first columns was about the way green chile changes on the way from southern New Mexico to Denver -- from the pure verde kick in Hatch to the thin, soupy sauce of Albuquerque, and the steady thickening as you travel north along the green chile trail until you reach the gelatinous goop of Denver, studded with pork, completely missing the original vegetable sweetness of the fruit and encompassing varying levels of heat, from granny-safe to scorching. At the time, I could not stand
Lori MidsonThe future home of Jack-n-Grill dos Just got word from Jack Martinez, the patriarch behind Jack-n-Grill, the New Mexican joint at 2524 Federal Boulevard, that he's opening a second outpost of his chile shrine at 2630 West Belleview Avenue. That's the vacated space bordering the banks of the Platte River that the Santa Fe Tequila Company had sopped up before it dried up pretty much moments after it opened, and just weeks after it closed its first location at 901 Tenth Avenue, which
Just got a call from Jack Martinez, the patriarch at Jack-n-Grill, 2525 Federal Boulevard (and soon, at 2630 West Belleview Avenue), whose seven-pound burrito nearly gutted Adam Richman, host of the Travel Channel show, Man v. Food, when the TV host stopped by earlier this year to to battle that burrito. (He lost.)
Anyway, it now appears that the joint's seven-pounder is an international sensation -- or at least a German one. According to Martinez, the hit German cooking show, Galileo,
Lori MidsonThe second outpost of Jack-n-Grill is now open at 2630 W. Belleview Ave. "We had a super soft opening on Monday and it went well," says Jack Martinez, referencing the second, much larger location of Jack-n-Grill that took up residence at 2630 West Belleview Avenue in the space that had previously housed the Santa Fe Tequila Company. But while the kitchen is up and running, and the staff is serving the same menu as at the original Jack-n-Grill (2524 Federal Boulevard), the taps are
