Blackbird Buvette, Albuquerque, New Mexico Restaurant Details

Food:

if you want to go to a real bar, as in, a place to talk with friends and drink good beer, then this will suit your needs. very mellow atmosphere and decent tap selection without the retarded music amped up to 11. plus a back patio.

Food:

Don't go here the bartender is so rude I literally just walked in and walked out, because I walk in me and my husband who have probably had two beers in the past four hours, so we're not even buzzing, he kicked us out because we were asking if they had some specific NM beers, after asking for like three different ones he says he's not serving us tonight. Wtf.

Food:

Hot. Hot, hot, hot. Even hotter inside (in the dead of summer) when the grills are fired up. Overhead ceiling fans are the only source of temperature control. The "bar" art opening I attended didn't come with legendary expectations but there's one attendant for a fifty seat dining floor/patio. Many times I considered dropping everything and going to the bar just to get what I needed.

In fact, if you go here...pray you get a seat at the short scale bar. Otherwise expect a twenty minute wait between getting a menu and possibly ten minutes for a simple beer (which the same lone attendant will probably have to service themselves).

Had a salmon citrus salad with a 5oz (palm sized) salmon cube. It tasted tough: over cooked, under seasoned and had an oily flavorless dressing to go with it. It would have been worth the price if it was even marginally delectable. It wasn't. This is not a gastropub and a fry cook throwing together moderately upper scale ingredients does not make a upscale pub food joint. In fact, it's practically a con.

The worst part: You pay (if by card) through a hand held, cell phone-like device directly from the attendant. So you have to sign and tip this person face-to-face in a horribly equipped facility and scenario. You're practically asking for an angry customer altercation involving the people that are working these terrible conditions.

I gave them a pity tip. This is one of the lowest grade places to eek out a living in the downtown area and the people that manage it are either asleep at the wheel, unqualified, or their hands are completely tied. This place is being driven into the ground (from whatever prestige it might have ever accomplished as a swank/dive bar) and the only thing keeping away the one star rating was recognizing the quagmire that everyone, staff and customer, experience when they walk through that door. That's a management problem. The staff were average at best in a terrible facility on a light workload day...also a management problem.

This place needs to go away or seriously consider the way it operates. It has an identity problem and doesn't cover any bases it tries to set out to do. It's not "cool", it's not a viable restaurant, the customers inside are servicing themselves and there's below average production equipment for any band that plays on it's ONE INCH stage....let alone anyone to set up or run the sound properly.

If you can't hear a simple ukelele over ten people having a normal conversation, can someone put a mic on it? Please? This place reeks of amateurs and there's no charm left to hide behind. Pull the plug.

Food:

Terrible service, unclean, and poor food. If "Hip" means being ignored by waitstaff and pretentious attitude when you asked to be served, then by all means enjoy this "Hip" spot. I thought they may have been having a bad night, and decided to give them the benefit of the doubt. So I went again this past week with some friends. Worst mistake on my part. Not only was it just as bad as before, it was worse. Again the service was terrible. When the food I ordered finally came, it tasted like it had just been microwaved. I'd advise you to save yourself the time and money, and go somewhere else.

Food:

We went here looking for something fun to do downtown and liked the name. It was a less than so-so experience, but not completely awful that it would deserve a 1-star rating. The two things I disliked most were the bathrooms (I am rather picky here, but this place wouldn't pass my friends' tests either) and the customer service. It took forever to get a refill on our drinks mostly because the staff was sitting at tables chatting with their friends (who seemed to have no problem getting served). The music was "meh" and the atmosphere was also pretty middle of the road. We ended up leaving after a few hours and had a much better time at the Anodine.