OT: Santa Fe and Taos, NM
amalia
for Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico? All types of food and price ranges
desired, with special emphasis on regional food. Bonus points if it will
please a professional chef *and* a budding vegan.
Thanks in advance,
-Amalia
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Amalia Freedman
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Dennis Suchta
since its been some time. Mark Miller was the chef . Didnt find anything
memorable in Taos.
Dennis
Al Eisner
> I didn't see anything in the archives, but does anyone have recommendations
> for Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico? All types of food and price ranges
> desired, with special emphasis on regional food. Bonus points if it will
> please a professional chef *and* a budding vegan.
>
with a large grain of salt. Some favorites, however, were
Old Mexico Grill: not New Mexican, but Mexico City style; this tops my
all-time list of Mexican restaurants, and I preferred it to any of
the New Mexcio places I ate at (some of which were quite good).
(It's located in a mall a mile or so away from the Plaza area which
has most of the good restaurants.)
Cafe Pasqual: inventive Southwestern food - small and bustling, but very
good. I would choose it (in part for value) over the more expensive
places I list next, but that's based on only one try each at the
latter.
More upscale Southwestern: I tried two of the three obvious places in
this category, somewhat preferring Inn of the Anasazi to Santa Cafe
(I never tried the Coyote Cafe).
Guadalupe Cafe: a New Mexican place which I liked particularly for break-
fast.
The summit of New Mexican food is IMO a great red chile. The best I had
was at a lunch-only place called Josie's (located in a converted private
home in the Plaza area), but I suspect it's no longer in existence.
All mentioned places apparently still exist, although I only found an
"Anasazi Restaurant", which might be the same as the place named above.
Of course, quality could have changed, new places opened, and so on.
In any case, even though I don't focus on it above, certainly try New
Mexican food, which is quite difference from Cal-Mex.
I generally found the Frommer's Santa Fe/Albuquerque guide pretty good
for suggestions; I have no idea if it still is. (And it's not a company
I would routinely rely upon in other locations.) Josie's was one I
learned about from this guide, which much impressed me.
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Al Eisner
San Mateo County, CA
Paul Conley
into singing waiters who do a pretty darned good job of singing show tunes, you
might enjoy Casa Sena. These places are both within walking distance of the
plaza.
BTW, I'm moving from my peninsula abode to Placitas, NM, in the spring. I've
been visiting the Santa Fe-Taos area for 20 years, and finally decided to make
my home near there. I'm ready for a change in food, culture, weather, and cost
of living.
Paul
Tony Lima
try Asian - New Mexican fusion with really excellent food
visit SantaCafe a couple of blocks north of the Plaza in
Santa Fe. - Tony
On 23 Sep 2003 16:24:01 PDT, eis...@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu
(Al Eisner) wrote:
>Cafe Pasqual: inventive Southwestern food - small and bustling, but very
> good. I would choose it (in part for value) over the more expensive
> places I list next, but that's based on only one try each at the
> latter.
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Al Eisner
> Second the recommendation for Pasquale's. If you'd like to
> try Asian - New Mexican fusion with really excellent food
> visit SantaCafe a couple of blocks north of the Plaza in
> Santa Fe. - Tony
Interesting - is the fusion something recent? I don't recall that when
I visited the place some years ago.
> On 23 Sep 2003 16:24:01 PDT, eis...@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu
> (Al Eisner) wrote:
>
>>Cafe Pasqual: inventive Southwestern food - small and bustling, but very
>> good. I would choose it (in part for value) over the more expensive
>> places I list next, but that's based on only one try each at the
>> latter.
--
Al Eisner
San Mateo County, CA
Tony Lima
(Al Eisner) wrote:
>In article <rq62nv0bkgvbqbfrc...@4ax.com>, Tony Lima <Tony...@att.net> writes:
>> Second the recommendation for Pasquale's. If you'd like to
>> try Asian - New Mexican fusion with really excellent food
>> visit SantaCafe a couple of blocks north of the Plaza in
>> Santa Fe. - Tony
>
>Interesting - is the fusion something recent? I don't recall that when
>I visited the place some years ago.
I've been to Santacafe three times in the last six years and
it hasn't changed much. I guess our perceptions of the food
are just different. But I'll bet we both agree that it's
pretty terrific! - Tony
amalia
"amalia" <amaliaxe...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Thanks for all the recommendations, my sisters are back and though they
deplored the food in Taos, they happily returned to Cafe Pasqual over the
course of their visit and really enjoyed The Shed. Evidently Coyote Cafe has
been reopened with a new chef (still under Mark Miller's auspices? unknown)
and may be good again but they didn't make it there.
They found a few more local places for very good chile, including a place to
buy prepared chile bases (handy since it can be hard to find the right
peppers in the right combination here). They also noted that Whole Foods
carries red and green chile base (paste?) out there, they bought some and if
it's any good they may try to order more through the SF store.
I can get more specific information if someone's interested.
Amalia
evergene
>...They also noted that Whole Foods
>carries red and green chile base (paste?) out there,
Friends in Albuquerque tell me that in addition to a state flower, New
Mexico has a state question: Red or green?