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Known as, "The place for healing cuisine" Yashoda Naidoo opened the first location of Annapurna Ayurvedic Cuisine and Chai House on January 17, 2002. Annapurna is one of only two exclusively vegetarian restaurant businesses in the State of New Mexico and is in its 8th year of business in Albuquerque and its 5th year in Santa Fe. In July of 2009, she opened her third restaurant location in the Village of Ranchos de Albuquerque. Since opening her first restaurant, Yashoda has received an impressive level of recognition in the community. Despite a rough beginning, Annapurna earned recognition in its very first year with a 3 1/2 star rating from the Albuquerque Journal, who also named her restaurant as one of the top 10 restaurants for 2002.  Since then, Yashoda has been recognized for her remarkable vegetarian cuisine, and success as a women-owned business over 28 times in publications like the Alibi, Albuquerque the Magazine, and the New Mexico Business Weekly.