Frank & Lupe’s spent roughly thirty years on Marshall Way feeding the gallery district New Mexican enchiladas, then closed without a word in September 2025. In 2026 it came back at The Shops at Gainey Ranch under new owner Piero Aviles, with the founding family’s scratch recipes from Socorro, New Mexico intact. Restaurant resurrections are rarer than they sound.
This is New Mexican cooking, not Sonoran or Tex-Mex. The only real decision is red or green chile, and the correct answer is both.
When to go: a weekday dinner. It’s casual and walk-in friendly, but the winter season brings a wait.