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Frontier Restaurant

Name: Frontier Restaurant
Address: 2400 Central Avenue Southeast, Albuquerque, NM, 87106, US
Telephone: +1 505-266-0550

Diner & restaurant
In Albuquerque, New Mexico
0.1 mi from Route 66

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Frontier Restaurant is a New Mexican restaurant in Albuquerque, NM, close to the University of New Mexico's main campus. Opened in 1971 on Central Avenue, the city's stretch of Route 66, it grew into one of Albuquerque's most popular places to eat, serving about 4,000 people a day by 2000. Its walls carry Western art, including portraits of John Wayne, a nod to the Duke City nickname.

What is Frontier Restaurant?

This is a large restaurant serving New Mexican food. It spreads across five dining rooms that together cover about 8,000 square feet, and the rooms are decorated with more than 100 pieces of Western-themed art. Several of those are portraits of John Wayne. The choice is a joke with local roots: Wayne was nicknamed The Duke, and Albuquerque is known as the Duke City.

Visiting Frontier Restaurant: tips

The restaurant sits right on the Route 66 corridor through Albuquerque, so it is an easy lunch or dinner stop on a day in the city. Allow 45 minutes to an hour. The Pig & Calf Lunch, a 1930s Moderne building on the National Register, is about 0.2 mile away, as is the University of New Mexico Art Museum, and the university's arboretum is about 0.4 mile away.

Practical info

Address: 2400 Central Avenue Southeast, Albuquerque, NM 87106
Phone: +1 505-266-0550
Website: frontierrestaurant.com
Hours: Daily 5 am–midnight
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University of New Mexico Art Museum

Albuquerque, New Mexico · 0.1 mi from Route 66

A free campus museum in Albuquerque with nearly 30,000 works, the largest fine art holding in New Mexico.

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0.2 mi from Frontier Restaurant

Pig & Calf Lunch

Albuquerque, New Mexico · on Route 66

A mid-1930s Moderne lunch stand in Albuquerque, listed on the National Register in 1994.

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0.2 mi from Frontier Restaurant

University of New Mexico Arboretum

Albuquerque, New Mexico · 0.2 mi from Route 66

The whole UNM campus doubles as an accredited arboretum, with some 235 kinds of trees and shrubs.

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0.4 mi from Frontier Restaurant

Lobo Theater

Albuquerque, New Mexico · on Route 66

A 1938 movie house on Central Avenue named for UNM's Lobos, back in business as an event venue.

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0.4 mi from Frontier Restaurant

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

Albuquerque, New Mexico · 0.2 mi from Route 66

Albuquerque's first public museum, an anthropology collection on the UNM campus near Central Avenue.

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0.5 mi from Frontier Restaurant

Modern Auto Court

Albuquerque, New Mexico · on Route 66

A 1937 tourist court on Central Avenue, now the Nob Hill Motel, and a rare pre-war survivor in New Mexico.

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0.9 mi from Frontier Restaurant

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