Santa Fe — Where We Ate & Drank
We ate at 8 restaurants, stayed at 3 hotels, and soaked at Ten Thousand Waves. Our Santa Fe guide covers the green chile benchmarks, folk-art stays, and August Indian Market.
Santa Fe runs on green chile, adobe and art-market money, and we mean all three as compliments. La Choza's chile relleno is the benchmark; Tomasita's the institution; the Five Graces the stay that feels like a folk-art museum you sleep in. Indian Market in August and the October light are the calendar highlights.
We spent our days hunting down the best New Mexican plates across 8 restaurants, unwinding at Ten Thousand Waves' hillside spa, and sleeping in some of the Southwest's most beautiful adobe spaces. Everything here we visited ourselves.
- Best months to visit: March–May, July–August, October
- Worth timing: Indian Market (15 August)
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