Eating in the shadow of Mitzi’s, an outdoorsman’s outfitter and an optic shop marks a distinct departure for regular customers of the Tree House Pastry Shop and Café.

When my wife and I made our first trip to Santa Fe in 1991, the city was literally crawling with foodie celebrities, and everyone was giddy over the level of extreme cooking.

I love bread. My friends can attest to my ability to eat an entire loaf of challah; once, when I was living abroad, a friend brought me a pound cake, which I proceeded to devour in a single sitting.

The sweet, funky neighborhood vibe that the Tune Up Café is known for just got bigger and better with the opening of this local favorite’s new bar space.

The brand-new academy—brainchild of native son turned British food sensation Rocky Durham and former Santa Fe Community College culinary instructor and pastry expert Tanya Story—offers a new kind of food education for Santa Fe locals.

Here’s how you know you live in Santa Fe: On a recent Sunday evening, the man-friend and I decided to go out to eat. We left the house around 8:15 pm and were seated at the restaurant of our choice by 8:45. It was, as you’ve probably figured out by now, Taberna La Boca.

Few things signal fall in Santa Fe more than the scent of green chiles roasting. It’s early September, and fat, electric-green and red-tinged chiles from the southern parts of our state have arri

The folks who once hawked baba ghanoush and gyros, nomad-style, out of their royal blue, hieroglyphic-topped food truck have settled down, offering an Egyptian oasis along the Old Santa Fe Trail.

Inside the bright space, Murphy and Annamaria O’Brien, with their two adorable children skipping in, out and around their legs, serve a simple daytime menu, heavy on comfortable egg-based dishes that best define the café as a brunch spot.

Choosing a table inside Carmelita’s Cocina feels a little bit like dining in a crowded bazaar. It’s Santa Fe’s scaled-down answer to eating in the marketplace—ordering New Mexican classics in the shadow of a dizzying array of goods for sale, much of it from the estate of Carmelita’s late mother or made by Carmelita herself.