Lunch in El Rito

~ Liz A

El Farolito is our favorite New Mexican restaurant (and that’s saying a lot) …

We got there before they opened, so I strolled around El Rito to take in the sights under the blue blue sky, and work up an appetite (note: click any image to get a full screen view) …

I’d show you what we had if I hadn’t been in such a hurry to dig in … so you’ll just have to take my word for it that the chili rellenos and rice with red and green chili sauce (aka Christmas) were as good as I remembered … and the sopapillas with honey are still the best in the world, bar none.

Looks like we’ll have to eat dessert-for-dinner again now that we’ve settled into the Rebecca James Room at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos …

All this and no WiFi in our room should make for a wonderful couple of days.

10 thoughts on “Lunch in El Rito”

  1. Oh my gosh this is all so wonderful! I have road travel envy! Those trees and sky…I could live right on that street 🙂 And the yummy food…sigh. When I looked through the Inn pics, my first thought was I see some Don art coming out of this trip! Of course there will be Liz art too…but I was thinking of his sculptures and a tiny plaster fireplace in that. moment. Enjoy, enjoy you two.

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  5. What a charming place to stay in Taos: especially if you are havng rain like we are this morning. How cozy to stay indoors, especially with a kiva fireplace in your room. I do hope they have given you some pinion wood to burn.

    No fireplace in the places we have lived here but we did enjoy pinion wood burning in a kiva fireplace when we stayed at the Taos Inn in 2017 with our daughter Shelley and her partner Grant. She treated us to the stay, it was over Halloween and the pinion wood burning in our room was so wonderful. As an aside, we had the most terrific wicked night at the Inn because they do Halloween with all of the treats, tricks, thrills and chills complete with live band in costume as well as a costume parade. The costumes were fantastic and we had such fun, especially when the band played “Season of the Witch”. We were sitting upstairs looking down over the dance floor when Shelley and I upped and went down the stairs to lose ourselves in wild abandon in the dance…looking up at Grant and Rich, who had stayed upstairs, you could see how they were laughing at us but we didn’t care…

    Have you been to the Taos Art Museum in Fechin House. This was also one of our stops in 2017. Shelley had wanted to see some of Gustave Bauman’s paintings but the gallery that had showcased them was closed. Imagine our delight when we discovered one of his paintings at this museum.

    Last but not least, you have shown us a new place, had not heard of El Farolito or for that matter, El Rito. Your food descriptions make this a must stop for us when next we venture out and about. It is fascinating how everyone has their own favorite New Mexican restaurant. For me, it is La Choza in Santa Fe, partly because if was the first restaurant we went to when we moved here in 2013 and because I love their rellenos and their sopapillas, just like you love the same food at El Farolito..

    Finally, Farolito means little lantern, the lanterns that are lit all over New Mexico at Christmas. North of Santa Fe, these lanterns are called Farolitos, south of Santa Fe they are called luminarias and are usually made by filling little paper bags with sand and putting tea lights in the bags.

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    1. Unfortunately our fireplace wasn’t operational … next time I hope we can stay in the older house where there are working fireplaces

      And drat, we didn’t get to the Taos Art Museum … but I’ve got it on my list for next time

      Last, El Farolito wasn’t quite as good as I remembered, but we did find La Cueva in Taos to have exceptional chilis rellenos (but no sopapillas)

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  8. thank you for all these pictures and those in preceeding post…there is just no
    where on the Planet anything like New Mexico. Thank you, Liz
    and Cranes…???????

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