{"id":107,"date":"2007-01-26T13:20:15","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T12:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2024-11-15T18:44:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T00:44:23","slug":"mucho-gusto-santa-fe-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Mucho Gusto &#8211; Santa Fe, New Mexico (CLOSED)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 262px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 262px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 262\/365;margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; vertical-align: middle; border: 4px solid black;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/nm\/mexican\/Images\/likewater.gif\" alt=\"Like Water for Chocolate\" width=\"262\" height=\"365\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Like Water for Chocolate<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">On the surface, Laura Esquivel&#8217;s wonderful 1990 tome <em>Como Agua Para Chocolate<\/em> (Like Water For Chocolate) is about the struggles of a couple passionately in love but cruelly fated to be kept apart.\u00a0 Below the surface, however, is a brilliant novel that celebrates the passion food can&#8211;and does&#8211;inspire.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Tita de la Garza longs her entire life for her lover Pedro Muzquiz.\u00a0 Alas, her life&#8217;s path has already been established by a tyrannical mother who decrees that Tita must remain unmarried and take care of her aging parents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Unable to have a life with her lover, Tita infuses her passion and love for Pedro into her cooking.\u00a0\u00a0 When her ingredients coalesce and simmer into subtle and unusual flavors, people who taste her cooking experience what she feels: love, hope, passion, sorrow and longing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">This brilliant novel is actually divided into twelve sections, each beginning with a traditional Mexican recipe.\u00a0 Each chapter details the preparation of the dish and ties it to an event in Tita&#8217;s ill-fated life.\u00a0 Tita&#8217;s life may also have been celebrated on the walls of a now defunct Santa Fe restaurant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">The walls at Santa Fe&#8217;s Old Mexico Grill were festooned with art which must have been inspired by <em>Como Agua Para Chocolate<\/em>.\u00a0 Tita de la Garza herself appears to have modeled for the colorful paintings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">It wasn&#8217;t solely the art on the walls that reminded us of <em>Como Agua Para Chocolate<\/em>.\u00a0 The cuisine seemed to have been imbued with magical, emotion-stirring properties or crafted by Tita&#8217;s deft hands.\u00a0 It&#8217;s no wonder <em>Zagat&#8217;s<\/em> proclaimed the Old Mexico Grill as the best Mexican restaurant in Santa Fe, a sentiment shared by many savvy Santa Fe diners.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 476px; 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font-family: Verdana;\">Mucho Gusto has seating for only 32 diners in a modest one-room plus restaurant overlooking a parking lot.\u00a0 Furnishing is austere, but several colorful paintings adorn the walls, including a Frida Kahlo self-portrait and an ubiquitous Diego Rivera scene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Absent from the walls were the colorful kitchen scenes that caught our attention years ago at the Old Mexico Grill.\u00a0 Their absence, fortunately, does not portend a diminished menu.\u00a0 While the paintings are devoid of kitchen scenes, the menu certainly pays homage to the masterful work done in preparing traditional Mexican cuisine in uniquely wonderful ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 432px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 432\/290;margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; vertical-align: middle; border: 4px solid black;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/nm\/mexican\/Images\/MuchoGusto02.jpg\" alt=\"Dos salsas y totopos\" width=\"432\" height=\"290\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Dos salsas y totopos<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">The menu includes only six appetizer choices and three soup and salad offerings, but you&#8217;ll be hard-pressed to select only one of each.\u00a0 A great way to start is with <em>dos salsas y totopos<\/em>, featuring a salsa de chile arbol and a cilantro tomatillo salsa served with blue, red and white tortilla chips.\u00a0 Neither salsa was particularly piquant, but both were fresh and delicious&#8230;and almost as nice to look at as some of the restaurant&#8217;s paintings. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">We&#8217;ve had tomatillo based salsa on many occasions, but the Mucho Gusto version was unique in its freshness and taste&#8211;definitely one of the very best salsas we&#8217;ve had.\u00a0 A profound lime infusion melded with the distinctively pungent taste of green tomatillo, white onion and red tomato to provide a refreshing taste experience. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Nearly as colorful was the sopa del dia, the restaurant&#8217;s freshly made soup of the day.\u00a0 It will be your lucky day if the soup of the day is a tomato vegetable soup infused with fresh vegetables and poblano peppers.\u00a0 The restaurant&#8217;s blue, red and white tomato tortilla chips circumnavigate the bowl while softening in a hardy and delicious broth.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll want to order another bowl of this exquisite elixir, but make sure you have enough room for the main dishes.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 452px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 452px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 452\/281;margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; vertical-align: middle; border: 4px solid black;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/nm\/mexican\/Images\/MuchoGusto03.jpg\" alt=\"Camarones en tequila\" width=\"452\" height=\"281\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Camarones en tequila<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">If you wish to eschew the restaurant&#8217;s most popular and famous entree, pollo relleno con salsa de crema, there are other equally appealing dishes calling.\u00a0 Calling loudest might be the <em>camarones en tequila<\/em>, five saut\u00e9ed shrimp with an orange tequila lime cream sauce served with rice, whole black beans and grilled vegetables.\u00a0 The shrimp are fresh, succulent and flavorful, but they absolutely come to life with the infusion of the sauce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">The orange tequila sauce is reminiscent of orange juice and orange zest mixed together with a potent chile to give the entree a definite sweet, savory and spicy kick.\u00a0 The grilled vegetables (squash, red onions, green peppers) are of perfect texture and have a garden-fresh taste we love.\u00a0 The black beans are similarly delicious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">My experience with fajitas in restaurants throughout America confirms that the name of this popular entree fits it to a tee.\u00a0 In Spanish, fajita is the diminutive form of the word faja which translates to belt.\u00a0 Most fajitas are belt-leather tough and difficult to chew.\u00a0 My dear wife, however, will order fajitas at the expense of trying some of the adventurous sounding entrees I always urge her to try.\u00a0 More often than not, she is grievously disappointed.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 425px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 425\/227;margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; vertical-align: middle; border: 4px solid black;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/nm\/mexican\/Images\/MuchoGusto05.jpg\" alt=\"Mucho Gusto's fajitas sizzle with flavor\" width=\"425\" height=\"227\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Mucho Gusto&#8217;s fajitas sizzle with flavor<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Mucho Gusto&#8217;s <em>fajitas<\/em> are the antithesis of the tough and chewy fajitas of inferior quality beef you&#8217;ve ever had.\u00a0 The skirt steak is perfectly marinated and grilled to a tenderness rare in this cut of beef.\u00a0 Even the red and green peppers and red onions are grilled to perfection&#8211;they&#8217;re neither crunchy nor mushy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">Dessert offerings pose yet another challenge.\u00a0 You&#8217;re probably going to be well sated when done with your meal, but if you don&#8217;t at least try one of the desserts, you&#8217;ll kick yourself afterwards.\u00a0 One of the most popular dessert offerings is the <em>chocolate toffee pie<\/em> constructed on a Graham cracker crust and topped with a frozen chocolate and mocha ice cream with tiny bits of toffee.\u00a0 The semi-sweet nature of this dessert coupled with a slight coffee taste will appeal equally to chocoholics and caffeine fiends.\u00a0 It is a terrific dessert.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">In Spanish, &#8220;mucho gusto&#8221; translates to &#8220;much pleasure,&#8221; a feeling derived by most diners at one of Santa Fe&#8217;s very best Mexican restaurants!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>Mucho Gusto<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; 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