Restaurant Bert's La Taqueria
Cuisine Type: 40 Favorites , Mexican , New Mexican
505-474-0791
| Monday | 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. |
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| Tuesday | 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. |
| Wednesday | 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. |
| Thursday | 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. |
| Friday | 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. |
| Saturday | 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. |
| Sunday | 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. |
416 Agua Fria Street
Santa Fe,
NM
About Bert's La Taqueria
There are occasions when a quiet dinner out, with no fuss or fanfare, can be just the ticket. And, if need be, it is technically possible to slip into a quiet corner at La Taquería and ease through the evening, sipping sweet drinks and sucking down spiced taco meats.
But a better use of the fare served up in this former nunnery is for festive and celebratory occasions, whether flying solo or con toda la familia. Where else, at least within several hundred miles, might a tall man with a black cowboy hat, several sharp knives strapped to his apron and a disarming grin, put the final, tableside touches on one’s tender beef filet, all the while chatting amicably about traditional Mexican culinary uses for grasshoppers (chapulines) and worms (gusanos)?
Chef Fernando Olea’s father-daughter operation (his daughter, Samantha, who works the front of the house, lays down a sauce of charm and hustle as thick as her father’s), is as hospitable as it is delicious, and when a table is in the mood to celebrate, the staff is in accompaniment.
Tongues in charge of their full faculties will operate of their own volition to order anything made with huitlacoche, a fungal delicacy that grows on the ears of corn and adds a smoky, soil-rich depth to anything from soup to queso fundido variations. An after-dinner tasting of artisanal mezcals will delight the drinkers in your party, and Olea’s entertaining delivery and arsenal of food and beverage lore will charm the rest. (Zane Fischer)
Dinner Monday-Saturday. $$
