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Food Truck / Mexican / New Mexico / Santa Fe

Master Food Truck – Santa Fe, New Mexico

October 6, 2020October 5, 2020 - 4 Comments.

Drive eastward on Airport Road in Santa Fe toward Cerrillos and you just might wonder if you accidentally traipsed into the Twilight Zone and somehow found yourself in Los Angeles.  At the very least, you …

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Donuts / Santa Fe

Whoo’s Donuts – Santa Fe, New Mexico

August 29, 2020September 1, 2020 - 2 Comments.

When my corporate group had its employees, a high-performing contingent of information technology professionals, take a strengths assessment, the results were contrary to the stereotypes often painted about techno-geeks. None of us, for example, were …

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Barbecue / Breakfast / Dog Friendly / Food Network Eats New Mexico / New Mexico / Santa Fe

The Cowgirl BBQ – Santa Fe, New Mexico

June 26, 2020June 28, 2020 - 16 Comments.

Cowgirl” is an attitude really. A pioneer spirit, a special American brand of courage. The cowgirl faces life head-on, lives by her own lights, and makes no excuses. Cowgirls take stands; they speak up. They …

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Dog Friendly / New Mexican / New Mexico / Rated 24 / Santa Fe

La Choza Restaurant – Santa Fe, New Mexico

June 19, 2020June 20, 2020 - 3 Comments.

“I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh Using bold and furious brushstrokes and striking colors (mostly red and green), Van Gogh once …

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Albuquerque / Burgers / New Mexico / Santa Fe / Taos County

The Burger Stand – Albuquerque, New Mexico

February 7, 2020February 8, 2020 - 3 Comments.

“If you need good hot grillin’, Try my burger stand. If you need a slice of thrillin’, I’m the baddest in the land. Any way you want it baby, I am your burger man.” ~Burger …

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Breakfast / Dog Friendly / Food Network Eats New Mexico / New Mexico / Santa Fe / Southwestern

Tesuque Village Market – Tesuque, New Mexico

November 2, 2019November 7, 2019 - 1 Comment

The most successful Indian revolt in North American history occurred on August 10th, 1680. On that day, more than 8,000 warriors from the various Native American pueblos in New Mexico put aside deep historical differences …

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Dog Friendly / Fine Dining / Italian / New Mexico / Santa Fe

Sassella – Santa Fe, New Mexico

September 7, 2019September 28, 2019 - 9 Comments.

In Cold Tuscan Stone, the first in a series of spellbinding mysteries set in Italy, author David P. Wagner did such a magnificent job in developing relatable characters and creating a sense of place that …

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American / Breakfast / Brunch / Dog Friendly / New Mexico / Santa Fe

Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen – Santa Fe, New Mexico

April 7, 2019April 15, 2019 - 3 Comments.

My friend Schuyler jokes that because the diet of my formative years was mostly beans, chile and tortillas as well as chile, tortillas and beans, I’ve developed an insatiable curiosity and appetite for anything that …

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Announcements / Burgers / New Mexico / Santa Fe

Green Chile Cheeseburger Smackdown 2018 – Santa Fe, New Mexico

September 8, 2018September 10, 2018 - 3 Comments.

New Mexico’s storied history will recall that 2009 was the year of the green chile cheeseburger.  It all started in May when Bobby Olguin, the gregarious owner of San Antonio’s Buckhorn Tavern bested Food Network …

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Dog Friendly / Fine Dining / New Mexico / Santa Fe

Terra – Tesuque, New Mexico

July 29, 2018October 11, 2018 - 4 Comments.

Several years ago, I asked my grandmother if she might consider aromatherapy as a treatment for the nagging aches and pains she suffered daily.  Aromatherapy, I explained was being hailed by New Age devotees in …

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Breakfast / Dog Friendly / New Mexican / New Mexico / Santa Fe

Tortilla Flats – Santa Fe, New Mexico

July 21, 2018July 29, 2018 - 11 Comments.

“Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold.” ~John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat In his 1935 novel Tortilla Flat, John Steinbeck introduced the literary world to the downtrodden denizens of Tortilla Flat, an impoverished barrio on …

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Dog Friendly / Food Network Eats New Mexico / New Mexican / Santa Fe

Casa Chimayo – Santa Fe, New Mexico

April 22, 2018October 11, 2018 - 2 Comments.

Chimayó is one of the most mythologized, misunderstood— and, some would say, maligned—places in New Mexico. On one hand, it holds a place in popular imagination as the Lourdes of America, a reference to the …

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Dog Friendly / New Mexico / Santa Fe / Spanish / Tapas

El Farol – Santa Fe, New Mexico

February 3, 2018July 7, 2018 - 3 Comments.

For over a quarter century, the most popular section in New Mexico Magazine (the nation’s oldest state magazine, by the way) has been a humorous column entitled “One of Our Fifty is Missing.” The column …

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American / Breakfast / Dog Friendly / Rated 23 / Santa Fe

Counter Culture Cafe – Santa Fe, New Mexico

September 8, 2017July 7, 2018 - 1 Comment

Counterculture. Growing up in rural Taos County four decades ago, I don’t know how many of us understood that the cultural and political upheaval of the big cities had moved into our isolated corner of …

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Dog Friendly / Mexican / Santa Fe

Taco Fundación – Santa Fe, New Mexico

August 11, 2017July 7, 2018 - Leave a Comment

Consider it sacrilege if you will, but some pundits believe the taco is poised to become the most ubiquitous and popular dish in the fruited plain. One such heretic is eater.com’s Nick Solares who made …

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Mexican / New Mexico / Santa Fe

Gabriel’s – Santa Fe, New Mexico

August 5, 2017October 13, 2018 - 4 Comments.

Located fifteen miles north of Santa Fe, just south of Pojoaque and within minutes of two garish native American casinos, Gabriel’s is a culinary oasis back-dropped by nearby cedar, cottonwood and pine tree-laden hills and …

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Ice Cream / New Mexico / Santa Fe

La Lecheria New Mexico Craft Ice Cream – Santa Fe, New Mexico

June 10, 2017July 8, 2018 - 2 Comments.

Joey: What are you talking about? “One woman. That’s like saying there’s only one flavor of ice cream for you. Let me tell you something, Ross. There’s lots of flavors out there. There’s Rocky Road, …

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American / Dog Friendly / New Mexico / Santa Fe

TerraCotta Wine Bistro – Santa Fe, New Mexico

June 10, 2017July 8, 2018 - Leave a Comment

“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” ~Benjamin Franklin In the 1960s, denizens of the fruited plain weren’t nearly as savvy about the fruit of the vin as …

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American / Dog Friendly / New Mexico / Santa Fe

The Teahouse – Santa Fe, New Mexico

May 21, 2017October 14, 2018 - Leave a Comment

When I suggested to my Kim that our next al-fresco culinary adventure with our dachshund Dude (he abides) should be at the Teahouse in Santa Fe, she shot a glance at me that seemed to …

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American / Brewery-Pub / New Mexico / Santa Fe

Rowley Farmhouse Ales – Santa Fe, New Mexico

February 18, 2017July 8, 2018 - 1 Comment

Only in John Denver’s hit song “Thank God I’m A Country Boy” is life on the farm “kinda laid back.” In actuality, farm life can be downright arduous, requiring back-breaking work in climatic extremes for …

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Bakery / Breakfast / Food Network Eats New Mexico / New Mexico / Santa Fe

Chocolate Maven Bakery & Cafe – Santa Fe, New Mexico

October 22, 2016July 10, 2018 - 1 Comment

In the polytheistic world of the Mesoamerican cultures (which include the Aztecs and Mayans), Quetzalcoatl was revered as the creator deity and patron of priests, merchants and rulers. Known as the “feathered serpent,” Quetzalcoatl was …

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Burgers / Rated 23 / Santa Fe

Shake Foundation – Santa Fe, New Mexico

September 17, 2016November 4, 2019 - 7 Comments.

If it seems there’s a glut of restaurants brandishing a much-hyped and often self-glossed as “best” version of New Mexico’s fabled green chile cheeseburger, it won’t surprise you to read that yet another purveyor of …

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American / Santa Fe

Loyal Hound Pub – Santa Fe, New Mexico

September 10, 2016July 11, 2018 - Leave a Comment

“It’s me or the dog!” That’s the ultimatum my friend Eric was given by his then-fiancee. It was one of several augurs of an ill-fated marriage only my friend with the rose-colored-glasses failed to see. …

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Breakfast / New Mexico / Rated 23 / Santa Fe / Southwestern

Plaza Cafe Southside – Santa Fe, New Mexico

August 14, 2016July 12, 2018 - 4 Comments.

Santa Fe’s oldest restaurant (circa 1918), the Plaza Cafe is so popular that long waits to be seated are commonplace. Compound that with the hassle of trying to find a parking spot that isn’t a …

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Bakery / Brunch / French / New Mexico / Santa Fe

Chez Mamou – Santa Fe, New Mexico

June 26, 2016July 12, 2018 - 2 Comments.

When she asked me to repeat the name of the French restaurant where we were dining one slightly breezy Sunday morning, I knew my clever bride had something in mind. Relaying that we were dining …

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New Mexican / New Mexico / Santa Fe

El Comal Cafe – Santa Fe, New Mexico

June 5, 2016July 12, 2018 - 1 Comment

From a social connectedness perspective, 1995 was the dark ages. The internet as we know and love it today was in its relative infancy. There was no Urbanspoon, no Yelp, no Gil’s Thrilling (And Filling) …

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American / New Mexico / Santa Fe

Museum Hill Cafe – Santa Fe, New Mexico

May 29, 2016July 14, 2018 - Leave a Comment

Widely reputed to have the most spectacular views in Santa Fe and boasting of four world-renowned museums, Museum Hill may be the only location where visitors are more in awe of the site’s breathtaking backdrop …

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French / New Mexico / Santa Fe

Clafoutis – Santa Fe, New Mexico

February 13, 2016June 26, 2020 - 3 Comments.

According to the Oxford Dictionaries, you only need to know 10 words to understand 25-percent of what native [English] speakers say and write. You need to know 100 words to understand 50-percent of what native …

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Breakfast / Closed in 2019 / Food Network Eats New Mexico / Gone But Not Forgotten / New Mexican / New Mexico / Santa Fe

Tecolote Cafe – Santa Fe, New Mexico (CLOSED)

December 8, 2015May 31, 2019 - 9 Comments.

Everyone knows the most sagacious of all creatures in nature is the owl. The owl is to whom all other creatures go to get some of life’s most pondered questions answered–questions such as “how many …

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New Mexican / New Mexico / Santa Fe

Posa’s El Merendero – Santa Fe, New Mexico

October 24, 2015July 15, 2018 - 6 Comments.

When we phoned our friend Carlos to ask where the best tamales in Santa Fe were to be found, he waxed enthusiastic about a tamale factory and restaurant on Rodeo Road just west of Saint …

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Burgers / New Mexico / Sandwich / Santa Fe

Bang Bite Filling Station – Santa Fe, New Mexico

October 10, 2015July 15, 2018 - Leave a Comment

“When people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts!” ~Bobby Flay Seven ingredients? That’s not a burger! It’s a hodgepodge, a medley, a potpourri! It’s everything including the kitchen sink. Perhaps other …

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New Mexico / Santa Fe / Southwestern

Coyote’s Rooftop Cantina – Santa Fe, New Mexico

August 15, 2015July 15, 2018 - 2 Comments.

National Geographic Traveler once described Santa Fe as “a hypercultural hybrid–equal parts Wild West and New Age, Native American and Hispanic, old money and old hippie”…a city “used to mixing things up and still creating …

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Closed in 2020 / Gone But Not Forgotten / Santa Fe / Southwestern

Eloisa – Santa Fe, New Mexico (CLOSED)

July 25, 2015April 19, 2020 - 9 Comments.

Expansive views bathed in salubrious, sun-kissed air punctuated by languid breezes. Cerulean skies graduating in depth and brilliance the higher they climb above the horizon. Surreal topography of unnaturally contorted, dappled sandstone formations and juniper …

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American / Brunch / New Mexico / Santa Fe

Cafe Fina – Santa Fe, New Mexico

July 5, 2015July 15, 2018 - 6 Comments.

Living in the Albuquerque metropolitan area, my nieces expect to stay home on those blustery winter days in which (gasp, the horror) two or more inches of snow accumulate on the highways and byways. Because, …

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Fine Dining / New Mexico / Santa Fe

Santacafe – Santa Fe, New Mexico

June 20, 2015July 15, 2018 - 3 Comments.

Is there anything as pure and simple as the innocence of a child, especially during the most magical time of the year? When my then six-year-old niece penned a heartfelt letter to Santa Claus, there …

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Closed in 2018 / Gone But Not Forgotten / New Mexican / New Mexico / Santa Fe

Chris’ Cafe – Santa Fe, New Mexico (CLOSED)

May 17, 2015October 8, 2020 - 2 Comments.

“Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It’s not about nutrients and calories. It’s about sharing. It’s about honesty. It’s about identity.” ~Louise Fresco (Scientist and Writer) Santa Fe and its …

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