Meet the Merchants
Handcrafted. Local. Delicious.
Sawmill Market is now accepting applications for local food artisans. Follow along with us as we introduce the amazing vendors of our food hall experience.
French Pastries and breads
Blue Door Patisserie
Blue Door Patisserie pays homage to the rich tradition and history of French Pastry.Chef Jove’s professional life and career have been dedicated to learning and perfecting timeless classics and constantly evolving discipline around the modern French patisserie.Blue Door features meticulously crafted pastries, breads and savory items using local ingredients. From excellent croissants, baguettes, quiche, and brioche to stunning and seasonal petit gateaux, tarts, and confections, our passion for quality and craftsmanship in patisserie shines through in our products.
Authentic Venezuelan bistro bites
Cacho’s Bistro
Cacho’s specializes in Venezuelan bistro bites: cachitos, ham bread, tequeños, arepas, empanadas, and pie. Their bakery products are made with the best fresh ingredients. Cacho’s pastries are perfect for breakfast, brunch, and snack with a unique flavor that delights your palate.
Farm-to-table restaurant and butcher shop
Dr. Field Goods
Dr. Field Goods Kitchen, a casual, farm-to-table restaurant and butcher shop helmed by owner/chef Josh Gerwin, previously of Casa Vieja Restaurant in Corrales. Dedicated to sourcing fresh, local ingredients, Gerwin has diligently forged relationships with local farmers and ranchers over the past six years in an effort to stay true to his goal of serving homegrown New Mexican fusion fare. Dr. Field Goods Kitchen offers comfort food favorites like signature burgers, hot dogs, sausages, patatas bravas, housemade drinks, and more.
Handcrafted chocolate
Eldora Chocolate
Eldora Chocolate will bring its “bean-to-bar” handcrafted chocolate to a satellite location at the Sawmill Market. After a spark of inspiration on a chocolate plantation tour in Hawaii, owners Steve and Andrea Prickett created Eldora as the embodiment of their love for food, healthy living, and social and environmental responsibility. Eldora chocolate is made with sustainably sourced, organic, natural, and fair trade ingredients. Suppliers are viewed as partners, and a percentage of all profits go to support Kiva, Heirloom Cacao Project & Rainforest Project. Like their current location, Eldora Chocolate will carry truffles, chocolate bars, and Kapow! energy bars and energy truffles — some flavored by “inclusions” like Himalayan pink sea salt, Chimayo chile, or Mole, Mole spice — suitable for health conscious consumers and those with discerning tastes.
Florist
Estella Floral Design
Award-winning unique and beautiful floral designs by florist Pamela Zanios to make every occasion memorable. Customized arrangements using the freshest seasonal flowers.
Mexican
Flora Mexican Restaurant
Flora features mexican food prepared from scratch using locally sourced ingredients. Wood, charcoal and rotisserie cooking are featured with a passion for clean, bold flavors. Includes fresh juice cocktails, bottled and draft beer, agua fresca and fountain drinks. The space sets the tone with a Mexican architectural palette that allows the food to be the star of the show color comes through in through food, art and environment.
Wood-fired pizza kitchen
Hawt Pizza Co.
Hawt Pizza Co. serves up artisan wood-fired pizza that is not quite Neapolitan, not quite NY style, but somewhere perfectly in between. Started as a mobile catering company, Hawt (formerly Firenze) gained a following at the Downtown Growers Market in 2011/12 and has continued to cater private and special events with their mobile wood-fired oven since. Co-owners Felicia Meyer and Seth Beckley are excited to put down roots and make new fans in their first store at the Sawmill Market ABQ. Chef Felicia Meyer’s offerings will include local favorites like the classic pizza Margherita and the creamy NM White along with new recipes that marry Italian and NY pizza styles. Rotating seasonal pies and calzones, a new menu of pressed panini and fresh salads will be made sourcing local meats, cheeses and produce, and their craft beverages like the popular Organic Lavender Lemonade will also be available at the Sawmill Market.
HAWT is an acronym for Have A Wonderful Time.
Breakfast + Lunch cafe
Mercantile Café
The Mercantile at Sawmill invites you into a modern Market and Café that will awaken your senses and put you in a culinary state of mind. Eat locally sourced food with a seasonally driven menu, where quality ingredients are prepared simply and traditionally in our beautiful wood burning oven. Enjoy the sights and smells while you eat, drink and shop all things culinary. The wood burning oven is the heart of the kitchen, practicing the traditional method of preparing rustic and clean food. True to its namesake, Mercantile will also feature a market space featuring New Mexico farmers and merchants throughout the Mercantile, and rotate the menu and products seasonally. Enjoy morning and afternoon offerings from the Café Menu from 8am-4pm, or choose from the Prepared Foods Menu from 8am – 8pm.
Wine Bar + Rustic Small Plates
Mercantile Wine Bar
Serving clean and rustic small plates, to taste and to share, with a focus on seasonal and local food. An ever – changing wine menu featuring wines from around the world. From Noon –Close. The design of the wine bar will feel like a private room away from the hustle bustle of the market. Diners will enjoy making their own charcuterie and cheese boards, sampling wines by the glass and bottle offerings.
Barbeque + Soul Food
Mr. Powdrell’s Barbeque
Mr. Pete Powdrell and his partner Catherine brought a tradition of greatness from Louisiana when they decided to settle down in Albuquerque and share the art of smoking meats and great BBQ sauce. Enjoy barbecued pork, beef, and chicken slow smoked over open pit fired by hickory wood with family-recipe tangy sauce. Save room for made-from-scratch sides and sweet potato pie and peach cobbler desserts.
Hakata-Style Ramen Bar
Naruto
From the family who introduced the first Japanese restaurant, Shohko Cafe, to New Mexico 40 years ago, we proudly present Naruto. Naruto serves authentic Hakata-style ramen. Hakata ramen has characteristics of soup made from select pork bones, eggless thin noodles and chashu made in house. We also serve miso and Shoyu ramen made with special soy sauce and miso imported direct from Japan.
Southwest Taproom
Paxton’s
Welcome to Paxton’s, the social hub at Sawmill Market. Paxton’s features a drink for everyone and the finest tap system in New Mexico. Paxton’s is the community gathering hub at Sawmill Market where friends meet, families relax and all are welcome. A nod to the past, the room will evoke a sense of retro nostalgia interpreted in a fun, fresh, modern way. Enjoy the best local and regional beers from the Southwest and stay awhile.
Craft Coffees
Plata Coffee
Plata Coffee, a neighborhood craft coffee shop in downtown Albuquerque co-founded by Aaron Ketner and Rose Kerkmans. With an emphasis on fostering connections and building up the local community, Plata strives to showcase the best of the city by featuring locally roasted coffee, hand-blended and small-batch teas, and artisanal goods by local creatives.
A tiny pasta shop
Tulipani
Tulipani is a tiny pasta shop that offers a changing line of artisanal, fresh pastas that are made in small batches using the best organic flour, eggs, and seasonal ingredients available. The recipes pay homage to tradition while also integrating local flavors. When Tulipani (then, “ñocco”) first began in a shared kitchen space downtown, it’s pastas were sold in CSA boxes at Skarsgard Farms. Over the past few years, Tulipani has gained a growing following at the farmer’s markets and popups around Albuquerque. Opening a space at the Sawmill Market is an exciting opportunity for Tulipani to grow to its offerings and to be a part of a thriving community space. At the Sawmill Market, Tulipani will offer fresh pastas and curated goods for guests to take home and will also have a focused menu of pasta dishes to enjoy at the market.
Olive Oil and Vinegars
Simply Olive Oil
Simply Olive Oil is an Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegar tasting shop that gives you the opportunity to come in and taste different products before you buy. Learn about the best quality, healthy products that will change the way you savor food! All Simply Olive Oil products are natural and healthy, with no added sugars, thickeners, or artificial color and all products are gluten-free.
Pop-up Gift Shop
Spur Line Supply Co.
An elevated and re-imagined shopping experience by the founder of Spur Line Supply Co., Tess Coats, hosting a curated collection of the best crafted and exalted goods of the Southwest. The quirky shop is a discovery zone for those who live uniquely – all centered around a minimal, high desert aesthetic, which include shops designated for: Men’s, Women’s, Children’s, Books, Records, Home, Garden, Apothecary, and Beauty.
