Santa Fe Dining At its Best

Tortilla Flats New Mexican restaurant is a Santa Fe landmark.  Known for its distinctive style, cozy atmosphere, and simple homemade ingredients, Tortilla Flats Restaurant maintains a heritage rich in history and regional influences. Menus feature fresh, seasonal ingredients, homemade tortillas and salsas, prepared daily, and a happy hour that brings in the locals, this Santa Fe restaurant has earned its place as one of Santa Fe’s top New Mexican Restaurants, praised each year and given awards for excellence. Open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner and welcome business groups, families and individuals. No reservation is required, however a reservation is recommended.

Nationally acclaimed by Conde Nast Traveler, Money, Zagats, Travel & Leisure and Sunset Magazines, it is no wonder it is consistently awarded Santa Fe’s best, for their New Mexican cuisine, using the best and freshest ingredients in preparing your meal and providing you with first class service. Santa Fe, and the rest of New Mexico, is known for its huge and spicy plates full of Southwestern food. Restaurants in Santa Fe run from expensive Southwestern to down-home fast-food style plates, where you will be asked "red or green" (chile). You can try a mix of both red and green chile peppers by asking for your dish "Christmas".

Tasting the local food can be one of the most memorable parts of traveling. Northern New Mexico cooking is known for green chile, which comes in a variety of types from mild to blazing hot. And ordering chile, whether red or green, may get you a very literal result: a bowl of chile, no beans, no meat. You can get those, of course . . . you just have to specify that you want them. Restaurants in Santa Fe will bring you a taste of the chile on request, so you can calculate whether it is hotter than you want before you order. “Smothered” on a menu at your local Santa Fe restaurant refers to having a chile sauce poured over the item, for example, over a burrito. The “New Mexico State Question” is “Red or green?” A note on red and green chile: half of those who have an opinion on New Mexican food claim that green chile is hotter than red, while half claim it's the other way around. In reality, the best authority on the spiciness of the chile at the particular restaurant you eat at is the restaurant itself, so if you're concerned about the chile at the Santa Fe restaurant you visit being too hot, simply ask; you'll get a straight answer far more often than not. One thing that's definitely true, however, is that green tends to be fleshier than red, and adds a bit more substance to the dish, independent of the heat level.

Another difference is that the chile is an integral part of the dishes; unlike the foods of our southwestern neighbors where it’s added at the end or used in salsas. The types of chilies found here is also an important factor. The state produces many varieties of chile, from the famous Hatch variety to local versions such as Chimayo. Each is different, in part according to the Jamison’s, because of the different soil characteristics in each area. Tortilla Flats New Mexican Restaurant specialties include appetizers such as EL PAPA NACHOS, which are thinly sliced Potatoes topped with your choice of Chicken, Beef or Bacon Bits, Jalapeños, and melted Cheddar and Jack Cheese, and a local dinner favorite dish, RED CHILE PORK RIBS, Pork Ribs baked with a Spicy Red Chile BBQ Sauce. Served with Pinto or Black Beans, Tortilla or Sopapilla. After dinner at Tortilla Flats New Mexican Restaurant in Santa Fe, try one of their famous desserts, such as the Flan Al Caramelo, a light custard, baked in a Caramel sauce, or the Sopapilla Helada, a fresh, hot Sopapilla, stuffed with Vanilla ice cream, topped with strawberries, chocolate chips, and whipped cream.

 There are so many good New Mexican restaurants in town which makes the Santa Fe dining experience one of variety. Most New Mexican restaurants in Santa Fe prominently feature chile on their menu. Tortilla Flats, a well known New Mexican dining establishment with typical Santa Fe fare offers authentic New Mexican cuisine at affordable prices and is family friendly. Frequented by many locals, Tortilla Flats New Mexican restaurant located in downtown Santa Fe is a great stopping point for a quick meal or a casual dinner.  Visit their website at www.tortillaflats.net today and view their hours, location, and menu. It is a must for locals and tourists alike.