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PYMO Reserve

The corner of 10th and New York. A dirt street, a drug store, and the beginnings of a downtown.

124 years ago…

Brick by brick. Nine rooms, a bistro, a bar, a mezzanine and rooftop bar taking shape inside the original walls.

Today… Construction

And just outside town — one of the largest pomegranate farms in the American Southwest.

A 30 year old hidden gem

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The Story of PYMO Bistro & Hotel

Some stories begin with a building. Some begin with a family. Some begin with a dream.

  • For thousands of years, the pomegranate has been cherished across the Middle East — a symbol of life, abundance, and hospitality. For PYMO's founder, it was something simpler: a memory of home. Of family gatherings, old traditions, and the belief that food and drink should bring people together.

    That memory found new soil in southern New Mexico, beneath a wide desert sky near the Sacramento Mountains.

    It started with one tree.

    One became ten. Ten became a hundred. Today, nearly 50,000 pomegranate trees stand in the Tularosa Basin — the living roots of the PYMO story.

  • From those trees came juice. From the juice, wine. And from that wine, La Luz Brandy — the first pomegranate brandy of its kind, made in La Luz, New Mexico.

    Then vodka. Agave spirit. Rum. Whisky.

    And eventually, something larger than any one bottle: a place where the fruit, the farm, the food, and the story could all come together.

  • That place found its home at 923 New York Avenue — the old brick building many still remember as the Avis Building.

    For more than a century, it stood at the heart of downtown Alamogordo. A hotel. A furniture store. A music store. Its brick walls watched the town grow around them.

    By 2024, it was worn, neglected, and close to being lost.

    Some saw a condemned building. We saw a building with a soul.

    Restoring it was never about brick and paint. It was about letting the building's age speak — through the texture, the craftsmanship, and the stories still held in its walls.

  • PYMO is not simply a restaurant. Not simply a hotel. Not simply a distillery or a restored building.

    It's where a Middle Eastern fruit found a home in New Mexico soil. Where one tree became an orchard, and an orchard became a destination. Where Alamogordo's past wasn't forgotten — it was invited back to the table.

This is PYMO: born from the pomegranate, rooted in New Mexico, and brought to life in the heart of Alamogordo.

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