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Keith Allen and Felicia Masias are the driving force behind the series “Enchanted Foods of ABQ.” (Courtesy of Sopapilla Productions)
Felicia Masias and Keith Allen are filmmakers at heart.
The husband-and-wife duo moved to Albuquerque from California about seven months ago – during the pandemic.
They set up shop with their film company, Sopapilla Productions, and hit the ground running.
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The pair are the driving force behind the new series “Enchanted Foods of ABQ,” which will begin airing Saturday, April 24. The series will air on One Albuquerque’s Facebook and YouTube channels.
Masias says that One Albuquerque is doing a series called “Virtual Visionaries” and that she wanted to feature restaurants.
Kamikaze Kitchen has come a long way in three years.
Launched as a food truck in 2018 by Nic Riccardi and his wife, Libbe, Kamikaze Kitchen’s Asian-New Mexican fusion quickly developed a following and in a year found a home base in the back of Red Door Brewery Downtown. A year later, Riccardi and his wife opened their own place at Wyoming and Comanche in the Northeast Heights.
I visited the Red Door location in 2019 and found Kamikaze Kitchen’s spicy fried food to be an ideal match with Red Door’s beers. Less ideal was the setup. The small kitchen was wedged in the back of the cavernous space, leaving diners in the front feeling like exiles.