Southwestern restaurants in Santa Fe
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La Cantina at Coyote Café
This lively rooftop cantina atop famed sister restaurant, Coyote Café, welcomes budget gourmets to sample chef Mark Miller’s cut-rate creations. Try the Oaxacan chicken mole ($11), spit-roasted pork tacos with pineapple ($13) and the signature mango margarita ($8). Sunsets are fabulous.
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Railyard Restaurant & Saloon
Housed in a corrugated tin warehouse in the up-and-coming, gritty-artsy Railroad District, this conventional steaks-and-chops house also offers pastas, sandwiches and a bar menu. Service is good.
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Compound
A long-time local foodie favorite, the Compound features the contemporary American creations of Mark Kiffin, recognized by the James Beard Foundation as the Best Chef of the Southwest in 2005. The acclaimed seasonal menu draws on the elegant flavors of Southwestern and Mediterranean cooking. Ingredients are always fresh, and the presentation perfect. Come when there’s reason to celebrate – the wine list includes several top-notch champagnes.
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Cowgirl BBQ & Western Grill
A fun place for all ages, thanks to the great playground, wacky Western-style feminist flair, outside patio and live music after 9pm, this restaurant has fabulous food and awesome margaritas. Everything is tasty, but Cowgirl’s is known for its barbecue brisket – order it in a quesadilla with green chile. After dark, order smoky mescal margaritas and play a game of pool in the new billiards room.
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Geronimo
Housed in a 1756 adobe, Geronimo is among the finest and most romantic restaurants in town. Gourmands will be happy to hear that Chef Eric DiStefano has recently returned. The short but diverse menu currently includes fiery sweet chili and honey-grilled prawns and peppery elk tenderloin with applewood-smoked bacon.
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Zia Diner
Voted Best Comfort Food by locals, this cozy diner is known for its meatloaf, buffalo burgers and yummy homemade pies. Have a beer and watch pink-haired hipsters and graying progressives coo over their blue-plate specials (served weekdays only). It’s one of the few places open late on Sundays.
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La Casa Sena
Housed in an 1880s-era adobe fronted by arguably the most idyllic restaurant patio in Santa Fe, this restaurant serves gourmet cuisine with Southwestern flair, like the Jackelope mixed grill of mesquite-grilled antelope loin, smoked rabbit sausage and sun-dried cherry coulis (around US$38).
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Sol
Burgers are the raison d'être here, yet vegetarians aren't slighted. The Sol Burger is massive, the crab cake sandwich and smoked salmon burger solid. Mac with five cheeses, nachos and salads also make great choices as you survey galleries and passersby from the patio.
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Palace Restaurant
To learn more of Doña Tules' story, or just get a sense of bodice-ripping old Santa Fe, check out The Wind Leaves No Shadow, by Ruth Laughlin. Or just stop by Palace Restaurant , on the site of Tules' old sala, for a toast.
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Tia Sophia's
The plaza workforce joins knowledgeable collectors for this top spot's fabulous lunch specials and other great New Mexican offerings.
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