Santa Fe Wine and Chile Fiesta: A World Class Culinary Destination in
the Southwest
Edited by Madelyn Miller
 There
are two things that happen in New Mexico without fail every fall. The first is
the crack and sizzle of famed Hatch chiles being tossed in roasters in every
grocery store parking lot, sending a rich and lovely burned perfume into the
air. The second is the Santa Fe Wine and Chile Fiesta—a gathering of 60 of Santa
Fe’s finest restaurants and 90 wineries against the spectacular silhouette of
the City Different’s Opera.
I have experienced the unforgettable aroma of Hatch chiles
being roasted. But I have never been lucky enough to be in Santa Fe for the Wine
and Chile Fiesta.
I hope that this is my year. And I hope that you will also
put this on your “must do” list. Or perhaps the “must taste” list is more
accurate.
There is no bad time to visit Santa Fe. Famous for its
fabulous restaurants and food, just imagine what it must be like when everyone
gets together to drink and feast.
 The
Santa Fe Wine and Chile Fiesta, known as The Wine Event with All Those Great
Restaurants, will celebrate its 17th year September 26 – 30, 2007. The packed
four day event begins with Guest Chef Luncheons where local chefs mingle with
those looking for wine and cheese pairings hailing from Spain or Slow Food
preparations promoting regional culinary heritage as well as wine seminars,
blind tastings, and discussions on biodynamic, organic and sustainable wineries.
Other highlights include:
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Mark Kiffin, The Compound Restaurant owner/chef and
winner of the James Beard Foundation’s “Best Chef in the Southwest 2005”
hosting chef luncheon.
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Silent Auction of week’s best wines from all 90
wineries, including 45 rare wine lots to benefit the Santa Fe Wine and Chile
Fiesta’s education programs.
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Grand Food & Wine Tasting at the Santa Fe Opera on
Saturday, September 29 from 1 pm to 4 pm.
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14th Annual Gruet Golf Classic scramble featuring six
sparkling Gruet wine and dishes from six different Santa Fe restaurants
every third hole.
 Tickets
go on sale July 5, 2007.
info@santafewineandchile.org
www.santafewineandchile.org
WHERE TO STAY
LA FONDA ON THE PLAZA
100 E. San Francisco
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
800-523-5002
www.lafondasantafe.com
The Inn of the Five Graces
150 E. DeVargas Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
T: 505.992.0957
F: 505.955.0549
info@fivegraces.com
www.fivegraces.com
Inn on the Alameda,
505- 984-2121, 800-289-2122
www.inn-alameda.com
Bishop’s Lodge Resort and Spa
800-732-2240
www.bishopslodge.com
La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa
505-982-5474, 800-5276
www.rockresorts.com
Inn of the Anasazi
505-988-3030, 800-688-8100
www.innoftheanasazi.com
Inn and Spa at Loretto
505-988-5531
http://www.hotelloretto.com
WHERE TO EAT
Inn of the Anasazi, 505-988-3236
Amaya at Santa Fe Hotel
Geronimo’s 505-988-5531
The Restaurant at the Inn and Spa at Loretto 505-988-5531
The Compound Restaurant, 505-982-4353
The Old House, Eldorado Hotel, 505-988-4455
Fuego Restaurant, La Posada Resort, 505-954-9670 be sure
to try the foie gras
SantaCafe, 231 Washington Ave. 800-252-8570 or
505-984-1788.
Café Pasquals, 505-983-9340 (if you are traveling alone or
in a hurry, ask to sit at the community table)
Bumble Bee’s Baja Grill 505-820-2862. Healthy fast food,
made fresh. Truly where the natives eat.
BEST VIEW OF THE CHEFS WITHOUT THEIR CLOTHES ON
Order the Santa Fe Nude Chefs calendar.($19.95.) All
profits from the sale of the calendar will be donated to The Yaxche Learning
Center Scholarship Program in Taos, New Mexico, the non-profit educational
organization that benefits needy children from diverse indigenous backgrounds.
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Order Online:
www.taoscooking.com
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Email Lisa Cancro, Director of the Taos School of
Cooking at:
leela@newmex.com
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Call: 505-751-4419
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Mail: Taos School of Cooking, 4100 NDCBU, Taos, NM
87571
BAR WITH THE BEST VIEW
Belltower Bar in La Fonda
505-954-3599, 800-523-50002
BEST SUNDAY BRUNCH
ELDORADO HOTEL
www.eldoradohotel.com
505-988-4455
BEST GUACAMOLE
LA FONDA
BLACK BOOK FOR CHOCOLATE LOVERS (maybe I should say dark
semi-sweet brown book)
Café Paris Bakery, 31 Burro Alley, (505) 986-1688
Chocolate Maven, 821 San Mateo Road, (505) 984-1980
Cloud Cliff Bakery and Cafe鬠1805
Second Street,
www.cloudcliff.com
Delectables, 720 St. Michael's Drive, Suite 2M, 438-8152
Ohori's Coffee, Tea & Chocolate, 507 Old Santa Fe Trail, (505) 982-9692
Senor Murphy Candy Maker, 1904 Chamisa Street, 1-877-988-4311
Todos Santos Chocolates and Confections, 125 East Palace Avenue #31, (505)
982-3855
Gourmet Fudge and Wedding Favors
(505)856-8242
1-877-423-8343
1-877-42FUDGE
sandra_todieforfudge@msn.com
Bumble Bee’s Baja Grill 505-820-2862 Try anything baked by
Katalyna Weil. She does a mean cowboy crunch and Mexican espresso brownies. I
love the cowgirl kisses
Kakawa Chocolate House, Mark Sciscenti, Chocolate
connoisseur, Pasty chef and Certified Herbalist. 505-438-3402.
sunsilver@earthlink.net
Try his chocolate truffles and authentic historic chocolate drinks. My favorite
was the chocolate chilli drink.
FAVORITE FLAVORS OF SANTA FE
Pear Mascapone Soup at Fuego in La Posada.
Chocolate Terraine at Hotel Santa Fe
Guacamole at La Fonda
RANDOM THOUGHT
Why does it seem that everyone in Santa Fe is either a chef
or a massage therapist or has a family member who is? Maybe that is why you get
such great food and massages in Santa Fe.
WHAT TO DO
Browse Canyon Road. This gallery row features an amazing
assortment of fine art, crafts, antiques, jewelry, clothing and restaurants.
Santa Fe School of Cooking
Take the taste of Santa Fe home by enjoying cooking classes
featuring Santa Fe’s top chefs whipping up everything from traditional Northern
New Mexican cuisine to contemporary Southwest. 505-983-4511
If you can’t get there, buy the book. THE SANTA FE SCHOOL
OF COOKING COOKBOOK by Susan Curtis.
Gibbs Smith, Publisher
www.gibbs-smith.com
Santa Fe Opera. One of the most famous in the world.
www.santafeopera.org.
FLEA MARKET. If you are there on a weekend, check out the
flea market by the Opera. Tesuque Flea Market is the official name, but no one
calls it that. The land it is on is owned by the Indians. Only open in warmer
weather.
GET A MASSAGE
Shanah Spa and Wellness Center at the Bishop’s Lodge Resort
and Spa. Ask for Lanka. My favorite treatments are Native Purification Polish
and Native Stone Massage. 1-800-9shanah. You will want to reserve ahead.
The Bishop’s Lodge Resort and Spa
P.O. Box 2367
Bishop’s Lodge Road
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
800.732.2240; 505.983.6377;
www.bishopslodge.com
ShaNah Spa Telephone: (505) 819-4000;
www.shanahspa@bishopslodge.com
Avanyu Spa
Get a Avanyu Body Bliss at with Nancy DeMill. Your body will be thankful from
the top of your scalp down to your toes.
La Posada de Santa Fe
330 E. Palace Avenue
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Office: 505.954.9631
Fax: 505.954.9761
www.rockresorts.com
10,000 Waves, 505-982-9304. Indulge in an outdoor massage
while nimble fingers soothe out any stress. Call ahead because this is a very
popular place. If you are adventurous, have an underwater Watsu massage.
SHOP FOR ART AND COWBOY BOOTS
Stop by Back at the Ranch, where Wendy Lane has been making
fashion cowboy boots for the past 15 years. I believe she pretty much "owns"
this niche. She has lots of celebrity clients, including the Governor of New
Mexico.
www.backattheranch.com.
209 East Marcy Street
888-96 boots
505-989-8110
ART BROWSING
SITE Santa Fe is located at 1606 Paseo de Peralta, Santa
Fe, NM
WWW.SITESANTAFE.ORG
Minkay Andean Art
The unique and original pieces on display include brilliantly-crafted, ceramics,
evocative retablos with hand-made figurines using boiled potato and plaster by
famed artist Nicario Jimenez. The collection also includes colorful and
intricate Andrean textiles, Alpaca garments and objects used in the traditional
folk medicine in the Andes.
233 Canyon Road
www.minkay.com
505-820-2210
The Turquoise Trail leads to Hotel Santa Fe...
Just check out the fashion-conscious these days, and what you'll find is a
plethora of turquoise, the deep blue of a summer sky, the perfect contrast for a
summer tan, and the stone that for centuries has been the sacred stone and
favorite adornment of Native Americans. So where would you expect to find the
turquoise Mother Lode? Just follow the Turquoise Trail to the Picuris Art and
Gift Shop at Hotel Santa Fe, where Manager Joan Greer has assembled a stellar
collection of turquoise jewelry gleaned from neighboring reservations and
pueblos and at prices that permit loading on the treasures, Native-American
style. For example, there's a 5-strand necklace of turquoise beads or a
single-strand necklace of turquoise heishi - the flat turquoise beads that are a
specialty of Santo Domingo Pueblo -- mixed with nuggets. Hand-hammered coin
silver beads are interspersed with turquoise beads, while oversize nuggets of
turquoise make impressive earrings. The pièce de resistance: an impressive
silver-and-turquoise concho belt, guaranteed to create a sensation back home.
GREAT TIMES TO VISIT
Don’t miss the ArtFeast benefit event in late February.
http://www.travellady.com/Issues/February04/OneofSantaFes.htm
Souper Bowl Project
contact
Director@thefooddepot.org to reach Sherry Hooper, the Director of the Food
Depot, which organizes this event; their phone number is 505-471-1633
Wine and Chile festival
info@santafewineandchile.org
Annual Santa Fe Market, a free public celebration of the
colorful arts, crafts, jewelry and cultures of Native Americans and the American
Southwest. Usually the first weekend in April
(619) 296-3161 or visit
www.BazaarDelMundo.com
GREAT GUIDEBOOKS
HIDDEN PICTURE-PERFECT ESCAPES SANTA FE & TAOS
By Richard Harris
Ulysses Press
www.ulyssespress.com
CULINARY NEW MEXICO
The Ultimate Food Lover’s Guide
By Sally Moore
Fulcrum Publishing
www.fulcrum-books.com
THE NEW MEXICO GUIDE
By Don and Barbara Laine
Fulcrum Publising
www.fulcrum.com
Hidden Southwest
By Richard Harris
Ulysses Press
www.ulyssespress.com
LET’S GO ADVENTURE GUIDE SOUTHWEST USA 2003
ST MARTIN’S PRESS
www.stmartins.com
Ski America and Canada has the best and most detailed
overview of Santa Fe from a winter tourist/skier/snowboarder's perspective.
The new edition (15th) will be in bookstores about mid October.
Available from most bookstores, Amazon, www.bn.com
and
www.worldleisure.com
MORE ABOUT NEW MEXICO
THE OLD WEST
TRAVEL HISTORIC AMERICA
Explore ghost towns, Pioneer trails, Spanish Missions and more.
Fodor’s
www.fodors.com
MOON HANDBOOKS NEW MEXICO
By Stephen Metzger
Avalon Travel
www.moon.com
BEST SOUTHWEST COOKBOOKS
ON THE CHILE TRAIL
100 great recipes from across America
By Coyote Joe
Gibbs Smith, Publisher
www.gibbs-smith.com
SEASONAL SOUTHWEST COOKING
By Barbara Pool Fenzel
Foreword by Jacques Pepin
Contemporary recipes and menus for every occasion
Northland Publishing
www.northlandbooks.com
FOR MORE INFORMATION
SANTA FE: 800-777-2489
http://www.santafe.org
http://www.skisantafe.com
BEST FREEBIE
The Official 2004 Santa Fe Visitors Guide - A Free Guide to
Santa Fe:
The 2004 Santa Fe Visitors Guide produced by the Santa Fe Convention & Visitors
Bureau has been updated for 2004 and is free for the asking. The 98 page guide
has everything a visitor needs to plan a stay in Santa Fe including articles or
listings of attractions, lodging, shopping, day trips, restaurants and cuisine,
the city's prolific art scene, activities for kids, the city's romantic side,
edu-tourism, historic and cultural background of Santa Fe, a 2004 calendar of
events and more. The four-color glossy magazine is filled with beautiful new
images of Santa Fe and is THE resource for getting the most out of a Santa Fe
visit. For a free 2004 Santa Fe Visitors Guide call, 800-777-2489,
505-955-6200, or visit www.santafe.org.
BEST WAY TO GET THERE
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES: 800-435-9792
http://www.southwest.com
Madelyn Miller is a food, wine and travel writer who loves
Santa Fe. Read her stories on
www.travellady.com,
www.cocktailatlas.com,
www.chocolateatlas.com,
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