ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE)– A University of New Mexico area landmark is celebrating its 45th anniversary.

The Frontier Restaurant at Central and Cornell opened in 1971, when owners Dorothy and Larry Rainosek relocated from Texas.

The restaurant is now wildly popular, despite early growing pains.

Today Frontier is a dining hotspot, as for the future the Rainoseks say they want to do something “big” for the 50th anniversary.