Santa Fe Flavors
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Anne Hillerman
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Santa Fe Flavors - Anne Hillerman
SANTA FE
FLAVORS
SANTA FE
FLAVORS
BEST RESTAURANTS AND RECIPES
ANNE HILLERMAN
PHOTOGRAPHS BY DON STREL
First Edition
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Text © 2009 Anne Hillerman
Photographs © 2009 Don Strel
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any means whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except brief portions quoted for purpose of review.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hillerman, Anne, 1949-
Santa Fe flavors : best restaurants and recipes / Anne Hillerman ; photographs by Don Strel. -- 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4236-0318-4
ISBN-10: 1-4236-0318-4
1. Restaurants--New Mexico--Santa Fe--Guidebooks. 2. Cookery, American--Southwestern style. 3. Cookery. I. Title.
TX907.3.N62S26 2009
647.95789'56--dc22
2008025261
To Don, my favorite dining companion
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
How to Use This Book
Insiders’ Tips for Dining Out in Santa Fe
About Traditional New Mexico Food
Cooking at 7,000 Feet
Main Dishes
Side Dishes
Soups and Salads
Desserts and Drinks
Acknowledgments
Ideeply appreciate the generosity of all the chefs and restaurant owners who made this book possible.
I'd like to thank Ellen Kleiner for getting the project underway, and Don Strel, Brandon Strel and Cindy Bellinger for their valuable suggestions on the manuscript. Winifred Rusk helped me round up the stragglers. I'm ever appreciative of my grandmothers, Margaret and Lucy, who understood the importance of a good meal.
Most of all, heartfelt gratitude to my fabulous mother, Marie, who taught me two of life's most important skills: how to read and how to cook.
Introduction
Eating Your Way through Santa Fe
Santa Fe is a fabulous town for food. Last time I checked, the city offered more than two hundred restaurants from mom-and-pop diners to elegant gourmet establishments.
As a restaurant critic for the Albuquerque Journal's Journal Santa Fe since 2001, I've had an opportunity to eat my way through much of northern New Mexico. I've enjoyed some wonderful meals and suffered through some dismal ones. I wrote this book to help people avoid dining disasters. In my line of work, I expect the best food and service in an atmosphere that makes dining out a pleasure—and so should you.
Some of us lucky enough to live in Santa Fe have the benefit of asking our friends where they like to eat, if they have tried the newest place, or if they've sampled a seasonal menu. Since visitors (and some locals) lack these friendly, informed connections, the goal of this book is to help you find memorable meals.
There were dozens of excellent restaurants from which to choose as I made my selections for this guide. In many cases, the decision was agonizingly difficult. The book offers a wide range of restaurants, from beloved establishments that have been open for decades to relatively new eateries. You'll find some of these places consistently mentioned in national travel guides touting Santa Fe's culinary charms. Others appeal to my sense of whimsy or my affection for small, owner-chef establishments. I've included gourmet 4-star restaurants that offer distinctive City Different ambiance, and local hangouts with generous servings, family-pleasing prices and maybe even a TV for watching the big game, even out of town.
The book includes spots for first-rate steaks, fine breakfasts and all-American comfort food. Some reflect modern Santa Fe's sophistication with their combinations of global flavors and international dining influences. In other restaurants, you might find dishes new to you, what we fondly call New Mexican
food. Menu choices like posole and blue corn enchiladas have deep roots in Northern New Mexico's history as a Spanish settlement surrounded by Indian Pueblos.
The question I'm asked most often as a restaurant reviewer, and have the most difficulty answering, is which place is my personal favorite. Usually, it's the last restaurant where I ate a great meal. I would take my friends to any of these restaurants. That's why I'm sharing them with you. I've done my best to give you accurate information, but life is about change. Restaurants can move to different locations, switch chefs and change focus. If dining at one of the places mentioned is especially important to you, please double check before you plan your evening, or your vacation, around that meal.
Each chef selected the recipe that is included here with no prompting from me. Every restaurant I have included participated by invitation. No one paid to be included. I appreciate the generosity of these great restaurants in sharing their recipes. At my request, the chefs reduced the amount of food their recipes normally make to suit the needs of home cooks. Since Santa Fe sits at 7,000 feet, you'll need to tinker with the baking recipes if you live closer to sea level, and we have included simple instructions to do that.
Enjoy!
How to Use This Book
Our Price Guide
$ Inexpensive; Most entrées under $10
$$ Moderate; Most entrées under $20
$$$ Expensive; Most entrées under $30
$$$$ Very expensive; Most entrées over $30
Insiders’ Tips for
Dining Out in Santa Fe
• Call ahead for reservations, especially from Memorial Day through Labor