Dan P. wrote: > > Will be visiting Santa Fe in early June. Looking for interesting > restaurants.. some upscale, some casual and fun. > > many thanks, > > Dan My husband and I were in Santa Fe over the Memorial Day weekend for a wedding. As such, a good many of our meals were eaten through the catering department of several hotels, but we did manage to eat in two restaurants: La Casa Sena and Cafe Pasquals. I recommend both. Pasquals (Water Street?) serves excellent Southwest food with some fusion touches. My husband had the Super combination platter which included delicious chicken mole, marinated shrimp, filet taco, and assorted side dishes. I had the grilled salmon in avacado sauce with corn pudding and stewed squash. One person at our table had the squash enchilada. The fusion touches include Thai offerings. I gues the assumptions is any chile laced cuisine is withing their sphere of expertise. Everyone was very pleased. Wine and beer only. La Casa Sena is somewhat more upscale, but, with the exception of Inn of the Anasazi, virtually all Santa Fe restaurants had casually dressed patrons. We ate breakfast at this restaurant. We were so pleased, we tried to eat a second meal there but the wait at dinner was too long. My husband had delicious Heuvos Rancheros and I had Eggs Benedict Southwest style (salty country ham substitued for Canadian bacon and chopped green chiles in the Hollandaise Sauce.) A basket of blue corn-green chile muffins accompanied our breakfast entrees. Incidentally, breakfast is a very big meal in Santa Fe. We wanted to eat breakfast at Pasquals the morning before cathing our plane, but the line was too long. Instead, we went to the cafe on the Plaza which has the big Haagen Dazs(sp??) sign and got ham and cheese croissant which were every bit the equal of the croissants we get in France. For the bolder among you, this bakery also had spinach and green chile croissants, and cheese and green chile croissants. For fun, you may want to stop in at the Chile Shop just a few stores down from Pasquals. We bought lots of packs of chipotle powder and several boutique brands of salsa and hot sauce. We had the shop ship our purchase home and they did a magnificant job packing all that breakable glass. I'd particularly recommend the sauce,New Mexico Main Squeeze. A friend particularly recommended the Inn of the Anasazi, but our schedule didn't allow us to eat there. The Cayote Cafe has a branch, Reg Sage, in Washington, DC and we aren't particularly fond of the DC restaurant (the combinations of flavors are odd and contrived) so we gave the original a pass. You'll love Santa Fe. Karen Selwyn From [email removed] Sun Aug 10 11:39:29 EDT 1997 Article: 35222 of rec.food.restaurants
Santa Fe, NM