Tacos of Enchantment

IT’S A SUMMER DAY IN SANTA FE, mid-1970s. As the temperature swells into the 80s—high heat for that time in our mountain-ringed town—I cross the street to the Quintana house, where the family’s four…

The Cult of Allsup's

IT FELT LIKE THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE. For 17-year-old Daniel McCoy Jr., a Mvskoke Creek/Citizen Potawatomi kid newly arrived in Santa Fe from small-town Oklahoma in the mid-1990s, the gas station…

A Diné Chef Shares Food for Thought

WHEN I ARRIVE, WALTER WHITEWATER is already in the kitchen. He asks if I want coffee or if he can make me an egg. He refreshes his knife blade on a sharpening steel before resuming the work in front…

5 New Mexico Dishes We Crave

Illustrations by Chloe Zola. GREEN CHILE MILKSHAKE What’s better than a burger from a two-time winner of the New Mexico State Fair’s Green Chile Cheeseburger Challenge? How about a frothy, fiery green…

Try These 25 Classic New Mexico Restaurants

Click here for an enlarged version of this map. BIBO BAR & GRILLE Bibo Tucked inside an adobe facade off historic Route 66, Bibo Bar & Grille is no stranger to shifting with the times. The original…

El Camino is Here to Serve

W ANITA JONES STARTED WORKING AS A WAITRESS at El Camino Family Restaurant, in Socorro, in 1991. For more than two decades, she served up tasty Frito pie, triple-decker Monte Cristo sandwiches, and…

Socorro's Restaurant Is Deliciously Simple

DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION, when she was born, Socorro Herrera’s family ran a grocery and liquor store out of their late-19th-century home in Hernandez. By age 17, she was a young wife with a new…

¡Viva la Cocina!

DINING AT THE LEGENDARY Rancho de Chimayó feels like coming home. Perhaps that’s because this hacienda in historic Chimayó was the family residence of Arturo Jaramillo, who grew up here savoring…

Frontier Restaurant

Kakawa Makes the Food of the Gods

THE MAYA AND AZTECS OF MESOAMERICA celebrated chocolate, enjoying its bitter qualities brewed with almonds, chile, and herbs in powerful elixirs. (Traces have been detected in pottery mugs found in…