New Mexico Tea Company on Mountain Road Northwest is a great place to visit for tea lovers. This store was originally established in 2006. Here you will find an extensive selection of tea blends that are imported from different parts of the world. Some of the varieties sold here are green, white, oolong, rooibos, herbal and black. They also sell a selection of tea ware like teacups, tumblers, spoons and teapots.
For 30 years, this candy maker has supplied people around the world with mouth-watering sweets. A giant candy cane leans against the doorway and has been a landmark in Albuquerque for decades. This would not be a true New Mexican candy shop unless it used pinon nuts in some of its confections. Chocolate covered pinons range reasonably in price. One of Buffet's signature items is The Horny Toad, confections that lie on a bed of pecan or pinon and are draped with dark or milk chocolate. Dozens of other assorted candies are also available.
Stone Mountain Bead Gallery is a treasure chest full of beads, bangles and bows. Unique jewelry is displayed and various handicrafts from around the world are available. Here is your chance to design your own jewelry, with a huge inventory of everything you need to make good looking and stylish embellishments. Crystals, lapis, stones and gems, plus sterling silver are among the line of goods sold. Unusual sculptures and various pieces of art are for sale in addition to a wide array of tools.
If you are in Coronado Center and find yourself with a yearning for rich, chocolatey sweets, stop in at this confectioner. Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory has more than 100 shops in the country and is hugely popular for selling more than 300 varieties of handmade, rich chocolates and confections. At this place, you will find yourself surrounded by some of the most delicious treats imaginable that melt in your mouth and send your taste buds to heaven Homemade fudge in an array of brownies, Candies made of white, dark or milk chocolate, it is indeed a heaven for chocoholics. You can gift somebody a basket filled with any of the treats on display or stock up your house with them.
This Albuquerque institution has been owned and operated by the same family for about fifty years. It is the only place in town to get certain hard-to-find foreign wines and spirits, and they also claim to have the largest selection of wine in the state. Finding the choice overwhelming? Visit the store during one of their regular wine and beer tastings to learn about and sample the inventory. If you're in search of a gift, Jubilation can make up a basket for you; if you're just dropping by for dinner, make your bottle look classier by presenting it to your host in one of the many gift bags available. - Pip Lustgarten
The Mexican Day of the Dead, celebrated on November 1st and 2nd, is a celebration in which the living honor the departed. Skulls are its characteristic imagery, most commonly in the form of folk art figurines such as the Novia (Bride), or made of sugar and brightly decorated. Masks Y Mas store and gallery is a truly one of a kind entity in the United States, importing Day of the Dead artwork, masks and figurines, and displaying them beside all sorts of locally-themed kitsch, including t-shirts and jewelery. It successfully combines cultural education, humor and a serious social commitment; the latter evident in the frequent exhibitions of work by incarcerated artists. - Pip Lustgarten