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The missus and I are heading to Santa Fe for the weekend without the kids in tow. We have dinner deals scheduled at the Old House on Friday and Coyote Cafe on Saturday. Any ideas on places to hit for lunch on both days, or for "nightlife" after the dinners? For background, we are 39/37 and think dancing (especially club-scene type retardness) is lame, but we love getting our drink on, cheacking out some good music, and people-watching. Any input y'all could provide would be appreciated!
 
El Farol has a good bar and dancing you can watch instead of participate. The Bell Tower Bar at the La Fonda has good views for a drink. Cowgirls can be a lot of fun and usually has a crowd.
 
Lunch -- Pasqual's, The Shed

The Rooftop Cantina at Coyote Cafe has good lunch food also, and is a good people-watching spot for drinks
 
We ate lunch in the dining room at La Fonda on our way to the airport in Albequrque after a week of skiing in Taos. Really good, easily the best meal we had in New Mexico.
 
On Cerrillos Rd past Airport/Rodeo Rd and Zaffarano Plaza but not quite to the Armory is Castro's. It is awesome and local. Local people are who go there. My former neighbors own it and run it. Get a Chicharron Burrito and when they ask you red or green chile tell them you want, "Christmas". You are welcome.
 
It's a short drive out to Chimayo. The sanctuary is kinda neat, and there's Rancho de Chimayo for lunch.
Their Carne Adovada is incredible.
 
I'm going to be out there also in a few weeks. My wife and I will mountainbike in Taos one day. What casual places would you recommend in the city of Taos. Depending on how lazy we are we might get there for breakfast or early lunch and we will be pretty hungry when we are done in the lat afternoon/early evening.
 
I was in Santa Fe with the wife in early May. Based on recommendations from a native on another Hornsfans thread, we tried Castro's. Excellent. Best place we ate the entire trip. It had all of the necessary criteria - inexpensive, not trendy, casual, not crowded, native New Mexican cuisine, and the food was excellent. Give it a try. Also, Zia's (across from Cowgirls) was very good, as was another restaurant in the same area (can't remember name, but it was located right next to the old train depot (I'll ask my wife the name and update later). Have fun!.
 
Isn't La Choza? located right next to the train depot? There is a restaurant owned by the Shed owners that was in that area or maybe a little further out Cerillos. Guadalupe Street something was also in that area. Tiny's is a place that the locals used to frequent.

The New Mexican places are pretty stable. The other, "fancier" places are often manned by temperamental chefs that move around and sometimes it's hard to know if you are really going to the same place that served you a great meal until it's too late.
 
Several years ago the ex wife and I visited her cousin in Albe...**** it. the big city in NM. The cousin's BF was in pharmacy school at UNM. Anyhoo, we actually skiied Santa Fe. It was terrific.

Beautiful place.
 
The place I was trying to think of is Tomasita's. I thought it was good, but Castro's is the place for authentic NM Mexican food, and it's cheaper and less touristy.
 
Any time I mention Castro's I feel dirty and if my family up there knew I was letting people outside of the city know, they would string me up like a Pinata or burn me like Old Man Gloom (Zozbra).

Tomasita's is an old classic and I actually have their actual red chile recipe from way back. I vary it from time to time but yeah, it's good. La Choza is right near Cerrillos and St. Francis, just off the intersection to the Northwest side, if my sense of direction is accurate. It is good and used to be the off the map place locals would go to.

Castro's used to have a second location on Rodeo Rd. but now they just have the one. The other location was better, imho, and more quaint. I don't eat out much when I go back because of the greatness of family food but it says something that Castro's has mostly local clientele.

The last time I was there was for my Dad's funeral last year.. Old school Santa Fe came out for this and it was pretty cool. That generation, the last of the REAL Santa Fe for the most part, is fading. Happens everywhere, I guess. But up there it is really personified. I am glad I have generations of family there to rely on and get the real deal. Castro's is that.
 
Thanks we will go there. Now if I can only remember the name of the mountain bike place where we rented the last time - I hate shipping our own bikes... The place where we biked was pretty close to town (maybe 30 min drive up the mountain) and it went along a mountain ridge. It was very pretty and pretty easy. Eventually that ridge goes into the city, but for me to do the ride I have to have them drive us up or have somebody bring our car back down to the bike shop. In other words, I really need to call the bike shop beforehand to arrange something.
 
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