Victoria Murphy ~ Santa Fe, NM

Santacafe

Described as a Southwestern Bistro and a Santa Fe landmark, Santacafé has been inspiring guests with awe-inspiring fine dining and an upbeat attitude since 1983. Nestled in a 19th Century historical abode, the restaurant has four candlelit dining rooms complete with corner fireplaces and charming ceilings.

The O'Keeffe inspired outdoor patio provides ample seating and provides a casual and intimate surrounding for Santa Fe's "power" lunch crowd. Santacafé features New American cuisine with a contemporary Southwesternstyle and an elegant presentation. Offerings such as Tiger Prawn Tempura with Red Chile Sweet & Sour, Grilled Filet Mignon with Serrano Chile Butter, House-made Coffee Ice Cream with Piñon Crisps, Green Chile Country Mashed Potatoes, and Fish ‘n Chips with Southwestern Tartar Sauce, are just a few of our delicious surprises that have drawn accolades from publications such as The New York Times, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, and The Wall Street Journal.

Frequented by the famous and infamous, the Santacafé patio has some of the best people-watching Santa Fe has to offer! During high season, our courtyard, protected by a sun canopy, becomes one of the most coveted locales in Santa Fe.

Santacafé is also pleased to offer free parking in our lot, accessible from Washington Avenue.

Phone: 505-984-1788 Fax: 505-986-0110

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For twenty-eight years Cafe Pasqual's has been serving emphatically flavored cuisine inspired by the culinary traditions of New Mexico, Old Mexico and Asia.
We are dedicated to using fresh, seasonal, organic and naturally raised foods.

In 1999 we received the James Beard America's Regional Cooking Classics Award for a "timeless, grassroots restaurant that serves memorable food and is strongly imbedded in the fabric of the community," the same year that Chef Katharine Kagel was the James Beard nominee as Best Chef Southwest

Panza llena, corazon contento!
(full stomach, happy heart!).

121 Don Gaspar, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501

Mark Kiffin, James Beard Foundation's
"Best Chef of the Southwest 2005"

The Compound Restaurant

653 Canyon Rd.
Santa Fe NM

Chef Mark Kiffin, James Beard Foundation's "Best Chef of the Southwest 2005", revitalizes The Compound Restaurant, a renowned restaurant at the cultural center of Santa Fe.

The Compound, remembered for its distinctive style and elegance since the 1960's, has been rejuvenated with the energy and excitement that made it a leading destination in its early years. The Compound has been recreated with a modern menu layering bold flavors based on historic culinary traditions; a knowledgeable and highly attentive staff; and an inviting, elegant setting.

The Compound Restaurant has a heritage that is rich in history and regional influences. Before its incarnation as a restaurant, the Compound was the centerpiece of a group of houses on Canyon Road known as the McComb Compound. In the earlier part of the 20th century, when Santa Fe was a long way from the rest of the world, movie stars, industrialists, and socialites visited, where they could rent a house in relative seclusion. Eventually, Will and Barbara Hooton acquired the main house and converted it into a restaurant. It was their decision to bring in designer Alexander Girard, who gave The Compound Restaurant its distinctive look and who is best remembered for his generous donation of more than 106,000 pieces to Santa Fe's International Folk Art Museum as wells as, the design of New York Restaurant, La Fonda Del Sol.

A recognized leader in Southwestern cuisine, Kiffin has chosen to create and focus his menu around the true regional ingredients brought to the Southwest United States by the Spaniards. When a group of Spanish settlers from Mexico City founded Santa Fe in the late 16th Century they forever altered the course of cuisine in the Southwest. The first Spanish settlers brought many food items that were not indigenous to the region such as cattle and wheat. As Santa Fe was at the end of the 1500-mile Camino Real from Mexico City, its Plaza eventually became the trading center where cattle were traded and a new variety of seeds were sold for harvest. It is from these New World influences, along with the influences of the Mediterranean, that Kiffin has created his dishes as Contemporary American Cuisine.

The Compound reopened on May 30th, 2000 and has since been named "Restaurant of the Year for 2000-2001", in the Santa Fe Reporter's Annual Dining Guide and "Best New Restaurant" in New Mexico's Culinary Magazine La Cocinita. In January 2001, Chef Kiffin was honored to participate in the Master Guest Chefs series at The James Beard House in New York City. Since this dinner Kiffin has participated in three more Beard events including; hosting a prestigious out of house James Beard Foundation Dinner in March 2002 and as one of only 25 chefs invited from around the world to cook at the James Beard Foundation Awards reception, the culinary equivalent of the Oscars. In October 2002, Gourmet Magazine listed The Compound in its "Guide to America's Best Restaurants."

Chef Mark Kiffin has embraced the restaurants history and continues to preserve the landmark's tradition of elegant food and service, while celebrating its enlivened atmosphere.

GERONIMO

in its celebrated sixteen years, has established a reputation as the place to dine in Santa Fe. Tradition and innovation merge at Geronimo, a Canyon Road legend. Owners Cliff Skoglund and Chris Harvey have succeeded in bringing unparalleled sophistication to the 1756 adobe home. The romantic, elegant atmosphere creates a fabulous backdrop for the Global Fusion-Southwest influenced creations of Chef Eric DiStefano. Geronimo, where simplicity and understatement reign within the venerable adobe walls.

724 Canyon Road 505-982-1500

The New Mexico Museum of Art is a unit of the Museum of New Mexico, which also includes the Museum of International Folk Art, the New Mexico Museum of Art, and the Palace of the Governors, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture.

The Museum was founded in 1917 as the Art Gallery of the Museum of New Mexico. Housed in a spectacular Pueblo Revival building designed by I. H. and William M. Rapp, it was based on their New Mexico building.

Donald Beauregard was commissioned to paint a series of murals about the life of Saint Francis, Santa Fe's patron saint, for the Saint Francis Auditorium, one of Santa Fe's premier performance spaces. Carlos Vierra and Kenneth M. Chapman finished the murals after Beauregard died.

at the Panama-California Exposition (1915). The museum's architecture inaugurated what has come to be known as "Santa Fe Style."

The building combines aspects of several Southwestern regional styles including elements of the facades of the Spanish mission churches of Acoma, Laguna and San Felipe Pueblos.

For more than eighty-five years the Museum has collected and exhibited work by artists from New Mexico and elsewhere.