FOOD:

Better Day — Not the best but like "everyone" loves their handheld breakfast burritos.

Iconik Coffee Roasters — multiple locations, all great atmospheres and good food. We serve their Mexico roast and espresso at Collected Works.

Tesuque Village Market (TVM) — Great for October evenings. Picnic benches and fire pits. Cozy inside. Perfect for NM style food, breakfast lunch dinner / strongest margs in town, grandmas baked goods, small market store with unique gifts.

Bang Bite @ Brakeroom (order the Fish & Chips or Cubano)

***people often recommend the Shed or La Choza but they’re often packed and the food is pretty similar to Tomasitas and Artriscos.

Cowgirl Cafe — nm style comfort food meets BBQ, best nachos in town — great happy hour and often daytime live tunes

Paper Dosa — South Indian food. 🔥

India Palace — more classic indian dishes. i’m drooling thinking about the tikka masala.

Pho Kim — best Vietnamese in town. Next door to Montanita Coop.

GO!

Paloma — fun restaurant, Oaxacan style cuisine *most of the menu is tapas style other than entrees

Cafe Pasqual — Manhattan-style seating downtown. Often an insane line out the door.

Turquoise Trailer at El Rey Court — Top 3 burger of Santa Fe. Great brunch items and open for dinner / late night bites.

Rufina Taproom — often live music —WINGS and tots with curry ketchup.

El Chile Toreado — best Mexican street tacos — food truck near Tiny's Lounge

*Tinys ** (*where we first crushed on each other)

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT:

There’s a free weekly publication called “Santa Fe Reporter” that distributes every Sunday, there's plenty of info on live music and local happenings.

There’s another weekly publication called “Pasa Tiempo” it’s probably $.75 or something but it has more to offer re: local happenings, art receptions, shows etc.

Railyard District: Sita Santa Fe, Second Street Brewery, Violet crown Movie Theatre, Railyard Farmer's Market (check it out before our ceremony on Saturday morning!)

Museum Hill:

Home to Spanish Colonial Museum, Folk Art Museum, Wheelright Museum, Museum of Indian Arts+Culture and the botanical gardens

Folk Art Museum — a must see

Spanish Colonial Museum — pretty small but often really incredible contemporary Native / Spanish folk art.

Wheelright / Indian Arts+Culture — you could probably chose one or the other. I’d look into their exhibitions before deciding which one you’d prefer.

Canyon Road:

Over 90 some galleries on this road.

Off Paseo de Peralta there’s Gerald Peters and Nedra Matteucci galleries.

Plaza:

Antieau Gallery — Nola/NM textile artist. Incredible . Jill's favorite.

Keep Contemporary — Space for punky/grungy, witty, allure/repulse, street art-esque works. All mediums. Very different from typical Santa Fe arts

IAIA — on the plaza. Contemporary Native American art museum

Shiprock Santa Fe — incredible collection of southwestern goods and jewels I could never afford but fun to touch.

New Mexico Museum of Art — one of my favorite museums. They have a lot of galleries meaning they have multiple shows on exhibition.

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum — It’s worth checking out.

Photo-Eye Gallery — near Rufina taproom — if you’re into photography, this is an awesome photography bookstore

Monroe Gallery — great photography gallery, rotating exhibition with the previous exhibition usually towards the back of the room. Two in one.

Big Star Books and Music: Used and delightful

Collected Works Bookstore— Jill's place of work and love.

SF’s oldest independent bookstore, female-owned and operated. A good mix of modern and classically curated picks, plus a cafe inside that serves local Iconik coffee roasts. Cozy fireplace in the winter months.

The Railyard:

#1 Form and Concept gallery / Zane Bennett

Blue Rain is cool, Art Vault is cool if you’re into digital art, there’s also a museum called Site Santa Fe that sometimes has good exhibitions.

El Museo — flea market / vintage vendors— a site to see and browse, it’s open Saturday & Sunday’s, check outhe Farmer;s Market too

MUSIC + NIGHT LIFE :

⚠️ mind you : SF’s elevation is 7,200’ / 1 drink = ✌🏽⚠️

Meow Wolf— Go to a show or check out during daytime w kids. Always a treat.

El Rey Court — Wedding recetions spot! Live music every Wednesday, keep up on Instagram re: upcoming shows

El Flamenco Cabaret — amazing flamenco dancers and musicians from all around the world. Definitely worth seeing at some point. Andalusian food is served there.

Tumbleroot — local distillery and often live music. Great central spot.

Rufina Taproom — brewery/full bar

Often live local and touring musicians

As Above So Below Spirits —local distillery. Right off the railyard tracks next to Violet Crown

Tonic — if you like jazz and $16 cocktails.

Matador — towns only legit dive bar. Biggest shot I’ve ever taken. Typically metal or hardcore played on 1998 MacBook Pro. Often old westerns or eclectic cult films playing on the TV monitors. Open till 2 am

HIKES:

Sun Mountain is a short and sweet one I love for a sunset beer or something (similar to the M)

Atalaya Trail System — near at johns college

Audubon area off canyon road is lovely to stroll

Artist Road up to ski basin / Hyde park is great for more alpine / tree’d hikes, there’s a million trail heads on the way up

Biking anywhere is a ton of fun. Lots of connecting trails. We might even lend our bikes out if you're nice;)

DAY TRIPS:

Madrid, NM — A wildly unique little old mining town. Locals are whacky in the best way. The Hollar has great BBQ, Mine Shaft Tavern is NM bar food vibe. Often live music in evenings. Often ghosts in the rafters:)

Cerrillos, NM — Blackbird Cafe — kinda farm to table small menu vibe but they’re just about the only thing open in Cerrillos

Galisteo Basin — many many trails, for hikers and bikers, beautiful old cottonwoods. Love to take a picnic out there if it’s not too windy

SKY RAILWAY — Take a train ride from Santa Fe to Lamy, have lunch or dinner at the legal tender and back aboard you go.

Go to Abiquiu if you can. Magical area, Georgia O’Keeffe’s muse. The Rio Chama is a beautiful river, lake Abiquiu is beautiful too, along with ghost ranch. People like to ride horses out there. The terrain and soil colors are amazing

Bandellier National Monument — worth a visit

Jemez Hot Springs, you can pay to soak

OR

Hike into San Antonio hot springs for a real treat

Las Vegas, NM — Montezuma Hot Springs — hottest springs I’ve dipped my bones in

“high road to taos” — Ranchos de Chimayo

TAOS:

Taos River Gorge

Taos Mesa Brewing Taproom — great food an beer selection (better than Santa Fe)

Hotel Luna Mystica if you're overnighting (fun trailers and expansive sunsets.)

Alley Cantina — super local, live music 7 days a week

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