La Baracca

Best restaurant we have ever eaten at in New Mexico. The ingredients were extremely fresh and flavorful. The lasagna is phenomenal. The fresh mozzarella salad surpassed the lasagna but they were both wonderful. Eggplant Parmesan was out of this world. We will be eating here each time we visit Truth or Consequences. Thank you Chef!

We decided to order from here because of all of the amazing reviews. We were at the local TorC brewery and placed a pick up order. I was soon after met by a call from Michael, they were actually closed for the day due to the road this resides on being completely closed for construction. Michael was beyond wonderful and offered to come to the restaurant and prepare our order anyway, which blew me away. In our order we have two of the eggplant Parmesan dishes, although the dish is already prepared with plentiful thick cuts of eggplant, Michael was transparent in saying the dish is normally served with 3 slices and due to the closure there was only enough eggplant on premise for 2 slices each, I was more than okay with this yet Michael offered free cheesecake dessert for both us to make up for it. We accepted and I am just absolutely blown away by the customer service, taste of food, and efficiency between placing order and receiving (not even taking the fact that the restaurant was closed!! into consideration).
We got the baguette’s with oil & butter, Caesar salad, tomato soup, and eggplant parm & each and everything EXCEEDED expectations. The micro greens in the Caesar gave the most high class feel to this meal, not to mention the made from scratch quality of everything. We visit TorC every couple of years for the hot springs and we will absolutely make a point to order from here every time from here on out.

Had a fantastic dinner here while driving through town. The pasta was one of the best I’ve had in ages and the sausage + rapini pizza was a great flavor pairing on a tasty crust. Michael, the owner and chef, was a super welcoming host too!

Great experience and excellent food:
It’s almost like a speak easy for dinner. Text the owner what you would like from the menu, show up with cash, and have a great dinner outside. We had pizza, calamari and pasta and all of it was perfect. Highly recommend and hope to come back to town again in the future once the inside dining experience is ready to go

What a strange but delicious experience! When we passed the location earlier in the day, we didn't realize it was a restaurant. Signs on the door said Don't Knock and Do Not Enter. There are menus on the table outside when it's open, but we texted to ask about the menu since we were doing carry out. The owner/chef, Michael, responded quickly and directed us to the La Baracca Facebook page, with the menu items in the most recent post. We texted our order for the cheese tortellini and the hand rolled meatballs over fresh linguine and spumoni ice cream. It was ready quite quickly (20 min after ordering) and Michael brought it out---make sure to pay in cash. It was delicious! The tortellini especially was bursting with flavor, and you could see and taste the fresh herbs. The meatballs were hearty and the tomato sauce really let the tomatoes shine. The ice cream was a nice finisher but really the pasta was the star. It was a surprising amount of food, too! At first we thought it might not be enough but we were both full with a little leftover, which made for a nice midnight snack 😋 Definitely worth checking out!