Where to Eat?

This town is a gastronomic delight. Take your burrito on the run, sit down to a dramatic extravagant dinner in a restaurant that's hundreds of years old, or feast on a fine, scrummy burger. I don't quite know where to start, but here we go...

For breakfast, try the Pantry (1820 Cerrillos), or if you're downtown Pasqual's (121 Don Gaspar, though the wait at weekends can be shocking). About half way down Cerrillos, opposite the Squeaky Clean Car Wash, there's a mobile truck selling the most fabulous Churros - try chocolate Churros - for a tasy snack.

Grab that burrito from any number of places on Cerrillos Road, although Posas in the mall at the corner of Cerrilos and Rodeo is renowned. Other great lunch eateries are The Shed (113 Palace Avenue), the Santa Fe Baking Company (504 W. Cordova), and the Guadalupe Cafe, on the Santa Fe Trail next to the Roundhouse. Tinys, 1015 Pen Road just off Paseo de Peralta at St. Francis, has been there since 1950-something, and is THE place local politicos go for unpretentious Northern New Mexico food.

Dinner? Back to The Shed, or for a most romantic, most elegant dinner, it's the Casa Sena, in the shadow of the Cathedral on East Palace Avenue. For one of those "where the locals go" dinners, get to Harrys Roadhouse, on the Old Pecos Trail.

For those burgers, check out Dave's Not Here, 1115 Hickox Street.