Santa Fe encore

The week before Thanksgiving the tourists were gone from Santa Fe but the sun was still out, at least for a few days. Later in the week the weather turned very cold and gray. Pretty frigid, actually. But it was a dry cold.

Walking up Alameda, the Santa Fe river to our right

colorful doors

art on Canyon Road

Ed Larson's Studio, a favorite

Canyon Road

Before leaving home I watched an episode of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives on TV which featured a restaurant in Santa Fe called Casa Chimayo. When a Portland restaurant is featured on DDD it is weeks or months before you can get a table. Recently DDD featured Frank's Noodle House down the street from us in Portland. For the few weeks following there was a line out the door. On our most recent excursion there to pick up our take-out meal (you can't get a table) a sign on the door stated he was closing early because he was running out of food. That's been our typical experience with Portland restaurants featured on the program. So I warned mom and dad that we might not be able to get into Casa Chimayo. But apparently, this is not a problem in Santa Fe. Casa Chimayo was featured on the program on October 31st, but when we visited a few weeks later there wasn't a sole in sight, outside.....

er, where's the line?

....or inside. We had the entire restaurant to ourselves for lunch.

anyone home?

Possibly it has to do with the fact that the restaurant was FREEZING. It's an old adobe that was the owner's home when he was growing up. I guess he had no heat in his home as a child. Anyway, it was pretty cold in there. But the enchiladas were hot.

Enciladas, "christmas tree" style