Explore Santa Fe: Restaurants

We are pleased to announce that Amavi will be featuring a Robert Kacher Wine Dinner on November 4, 2009. The dinner will take place at 7:30pm and will include five courses with wines paired for 85 dollars per person. A fantastic deal for the quality of wines and food that will be here! Hope you all can join us!

The hamburger. One of the most egalitarian of all American foods, the hamburger is a staple of the American diet among meat-eating folks. When you need a burger (and admit, you want one right now) you need a burger, and if you're a Santa Fean, you probably need one with all the traditional fixins, (including ketchup and mustard, pickles and onions and a slab of cheese) along with a certain nontraditional and local condiment -- namely, a big scoop or slice of green chile.

The newest kid on the downtown block is Milagro 139, the brainchild of the folks who have kept a Santa Fe tradition alive for decades: the balcony of margarita wishes and happy-hour-hors-d'oeuvre dreams at The Ore House restaurant on the Plaza. Tucked inside an alcove at 139 W. San Francisco St. that used to be the home of Tribes Coffee House, Milagro 139 is a sprawling, gorgeous endeavor.

You know the refrain, “Where there’s a will, there’s a way?” Well out here in the East Mountains, it’s more like, “Where there’s a need, there’s a way.”

Five years ago, Jay Wulf and his wife, Barb Hanlon Wulf, definitely had a need. A couple of them, in fact. As parents of two young boys, a move to a new neighborhood was now in order.

“We’d been coming up to the East Mountains for years to hike, bike, and ski,” says Jay. “So when we came to the point in our lives where we were looking at school districts and for someplace affordable with privacy and land, this was the perfect fit.”

At the time, Jay was also running Gecko’s Bar and Tapas...

Coyote is the trickster in many American Indian legends, and the new incarnation of Santa Fe’s legendary Coyote Café sparkles with playfulness. This is world-class cuisine with a grin on its face.

After 20 years under the guidance of Mark Miller, the Coyote has new owners including executive chef Eric DiStefano, formerly of Geronimo. (Miller will serve as a consultant.) The dinner that friends and I had recently was sensational from beginning to end. The new Coyote is fresh and reenergized, again one of Santa Fe’s premier restaurants.

The joy of the experience began with watching other people’s orders emerge from the kitchen. Time and again, we interrupted our convers...