I need help New Mexico DUers! I'm planning a trip to your fine, fine

state and I would love input on places to see. Sante Fe is where I will be staying and I'll be staying around the Plaza. What I'm particularly interested in is historic sites and local music, ethnic or otherwise, as well as best restaurants. I love all types of cuisine, sushi, southwest, mediterranean, Indian etc you name it and other than German and a short list of others, I like it. Anything else you'd like to add feel free.

Upper Crust Pizza. My wife is nuts about this place. She keeps insisting on making the 6 hour drive just to order the pizza. :eyes:

Their pizzas are definetely very good. If I remember right, it's right in the Plaza. on Old Santa Fe Trail (I might be wrong)

I wrote it down, thanks again.

Loretto Academy Chapel staircase is very interesting, by the Catheral.
The Assisi Italian restraurant on Federal St.
Marias Bar for good margarita and reasonably good Mexican food.
The museums: Indian Culture, Georgia O'Keefe.
Bishop's Lodge if you have a car, not necessarily the food but the view after running around on the Turquoise Trail.

very interesting, thanks so much! What is the Turquois Trail I haven't read about that?

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best mexican food this side of "St. Peter's Diner"..(address, Heaven)..

Their sopapillas are to DIE FOR :)

is 70 miles from Santa Fe, it depends if she has transportation.
La Pinta in ABQ has nice gardens, fountain and reasonably good chili rellenos (just egg white batter, not the cheapskate flour batter).
Buffet at lunch so you can try things.
Oops make that around 95 miles.

We used to go there a lot when we live in Belen.. There is also a great place in Los Lunas (I think).. It's an old restored mansion.. very pretty too :)

It is still there.

My favorite in Albuquerque is the Tomato cafe which has all you can eat italian food.

Padrells BBQ is also very good. Makes me want to drive 200 miles just to go there.

Need more info! I dig those kind of places! pretty please with sugar on top, a name!

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Minutes away from Albuquerque off South I-25 are the townships of Bosque Farms and Los Lunas. For those who want to leave the hustle-bustle of the city behind and savor a more simple way of life, these two communities are hard to match. Small “Mom and Pop” businesses in the area provide basic necessities. One of the area’s historic landmarks, The Luna Mansion, has been restored into an elegant restaurant.

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supposedly it's haunted :eyes:

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INVESTIGATION REPORT
Location: Luna Mansion, Los Lunas, NM
Date: 08 August 2000
Personnel Participating: Cody Polston, Buck McCombs,
Equipment Used: Various EMF detectors, 35mm camera,


History
In 1692 Domingo de Luna came to New Mexico on a land grant from the King of Spain. A few years later, Don Pedro Otero came to Valencia County under similar circumstances. These two families grew, aquired fortunes in land and livestock, and became extremely powerful in politics and prominent in territorial society . The family heads became friends and business associates. The marriages of Solomon Luna to Adelaida Otero, and Manuel A. Otero to Eloisa Luna in the late 1800's united these two families into what became known as the Luna-Otero Dynasty.


In 1880 the Santa Fe Railroad wanted right-of-way through the Luna property. In return for this favor, and because the proposed railroad tracks went squarely through the existing Luna hacienda, the railroad agreed to build a new home to the specifications of Don Antonio Jose and his family. Legend has it that numerous trips through the South by the Luna family inspired the architectural design of the mansion. Whether or not this is true, the building is unique in that, while it is southern colonial in style, its basic construction material is adobe.
Because Don Antonio Jose died in 1881, the first family to occupy the mansion was his oldest son, Tranquilino. After Don Tranquilino's death in Washington while serving in the legislature, younger brother Solomon took the reins of the family. Although Solomon was probably the most famous of the Lunas, he was not very prolific. With no children in his family, control passed to his nephew, Eduardo Otero, in the early 1900's. It was during this time, specifically in the 1920's that the mansion truly became the outstanding building that now exists. During this period the solarium was constructed, the front portico was added, and the ironwork, which once surrounded about five times as much property as it now does, was erected. Responsible for these and other improvements was a talented and creative woman, Josefita Manderfield Otero, wife of Don Eduardo. Josefita, or Pepe as she is affectionately remembered, was a daughter of William R. Manderfield, founder of the Santa Fe New Mexican. This fine lady ruled the mansion with a gentle and loving hand and spent her days caring for her magnificent gardens and applying paint to canvas. There are those in this area who still remember and speak highly of her.
Reported Phenomena
In the 1970's the mansion was remodeled into a restaurant,
and it was then that the ghost of one of the original family members, Josefita "Pepe" Otero, began to appear. Several employees have seen her ghost and describe her as very real looking, dressed in 1920's clothing. She haunts two former bedrooms on the second floor an attic storeroom and the top of the stairs which leads to the second floor bar.
Several other apparitions are rumored to also haunt the location. Luiz, a servant, haunts the lower floor. His spirit is said to be friendly to women and children. Two other unidentified spirits ahave also been seen or felt on the mansion grounds.


During our investigation we picked up several intersting EM fields. One is near the wall by the downstairs bar. Although the readings are too high, there is no explainable source for the field as the wall is a 3 foot thick adobe structure and the powerlines are not routed through it.
Also in the downstairs area, we captured a spinning chandiler on video. No one was present in the room before the phenomena started.(Picture 1)

We also may have a suspect target captured on film in one of the lower dining rooms that was once the family room. A possible vortexes phenomena is in the lower left corner of the picture. (Picture 2)

http://www.ghostinmysuitcase.com/places/luna/

Thank you so much! I can't wait! I'll be there in a few weeks!

I'd sell my kidney for a good chicken mole. I do make it myself with the help of a paste, I bake a whole chicken then peel the meat, yum, yum, mole is one of my absolute favorite dishes. I also like the horchata (spelling) drink which I can't seem to find in St Louis.

I find the best way to get a feel of a restaurant is to try the combination plate. Red or Green it's your choice.

It's right downtown Can't miss it.

You can buy alien Christmas tree ornaments and alien boxing hand puppets.

the Valle Grande blew me away at the top of the climb as you enter the caldera (ancient massive volcano several miles in dia.). Of course, spectacular mind blowing vistas seem to be the norm in NM.
Others:
The road up to Taos from Santa Fe. You climb a rise just south of Taos and BLAM- the Rio Grand Valley with the Rio Grand gorge cleft through the middle of this vast plain is sublime.

Chaco Canyon is awesome too. NM is jsut plain awesome. Like nature? NM has everything.