Try FARMesilla’s Green Chile Pita

IN SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO, fall means the smell of roasting green chile—and finding it in just about everything. FARMesilla eatery + drinkery gets in on the action with its new Pistachio Pesto Pita…

Better Butter from AGA Smör

“WITH ENOUGH BUTTER, anything is good,” Julia Child once famously declared. Anika Gusterman Amon, founder of Santa Fe’s AGA Smör, doesn’t just agree, she’s built a business on pushing that idea…

Play the Field at Los Poblanos

LOS POBLANOS INN & ORGANIC FARM spirits manager Joseph Simonson has a thesis for the group’s beverage program. “It’s a field-to-cocktail experience,” he says. “The operating question is always, ‘Why…

Desert Spirits at Dry Point

CHRIS SCHAEFER HAS SPENT YEARS figuring out how to capture the flavors of New Mexico’s arid landscape—blue corn, prickly pear, mesquite, and chile—in a bottle. “New Mexico’s the center of the…

Editor’s Letter: Cheers Squad

SCOTT FEUILLE IS IN his element. The Taylor Garrett Whiskey founder and retired Navy aviator is serving samples of his Albuquerque-distilled rye, bourbon, and old-fashioned whiskeys in the Chairman’s…

Crack Open a New Mexico Cocktail

“WE JUST SORT OF had a hunch that it was a good time to launch a cocktail brand,” says Teresa Dahl-Bredine, co-owner of the Silver City–based Little Toad Creek Brewery & Distillery and Mixed-Up…

Taste the Magic at As Above, So Below

“I AM VERY PASSIONATE about folk magic and this idea of alchemy, mystery, and the history of distilling,” says Caley Shoemaker, master distiller and co-owner of As Above, So Below Distillery, in Santa…

Hearthfire Cider

The White Buffalo

Find Your Pour at Hollow Spirits

WALKING THROUGH the gleaming front doors at Hollow Spirits Distillery’s new Northeast Heights location in Albuquerque, you’re immediately struck by the familiar rhythms of a brewhouse. The former…