Santa Fe
Lots of galleries and sculptures all over town.
Historic Santa Fe Plaza is just around the corner.
While I had researched restaurants and made dinner reservations, I figured we'd just wing it for lunch. Mrs. SFO had recommendations for lunch and after discussing the options with the front desk staff, decided go to Tomasita's, near the train station.
Always a good sign when a restaurant is packed.
The bad news is that it was one of the worst Mexican restaurants we'd been to in a long time. 
Margaritas were good, severe alcohol laws notwithstanding.
As we resisted that temptation to try a New Mexico wine.
Tortilla soup, not so good.
Tacos. Meh.
My combo plate tasted even worse than it looked. Best that it wasn't in focus.
So sweetie, where did you hear about this place? "...the guy behind the meat counter at Whole Foods. He's from Santa Fe..." LOL.
The only good part of the meal were the sopaipillas, fried pastry pockets with a delicious honey butter.
OK, that was pretty good.
After lunch, we head back another way thru old Santa Fe, with some interesting stores and galleries along the way.
Mrs. SFO, already way too interested in Colorado's new marijuana laws, spotted this shop on that way. We stopped in and she inquired "can you smoke hemp?" LOL.
Sculpture of all kinds all over Santa Fe.
Cathedral of St. Francis, dating from 1886, is a blend of adobe, French-Romanesque and modern architecture.
Also where FTer JMN57 and Mrs. JMN57 were married.
And the obligatory Navajo rug shops.
After a drink on the outside terrace at the hotel, we took a taxi to Canyon Road, home to the largest collection of galleries in Santa Fe. A little browsing before dinner.
And then an amazing dinner at Geromino. Lunch was but a distant memory as our dinner was sensational. Pics from their website.
Tough to take pics in the ambiant light so these are some representative food pics from the Geronimo website.
I had the fabulous lobster salad, although the dilled tempura version.
Mrs. SFO had the Fiery sweet chile and honey grilled Mexican prawns with jasmine rice cakes, frisee red onion salad with yuzu basil aioli.
And to finish, divine Carmelized Banana Cream pie.
After an excellent breakfast in the Anasazi restaurant...
We headed out for drive around some of the residential areas north of the city, featuring nothing but abode style homes...
And then to Canyon Road for the 2nd day of Passport to the Arts...
Next up was a late lunch at wonderful La Casa Sena. Great southwest cuisine, terrific staff and delicious margaritas.
Yummy blue corn muffins.
My Aztec Dusted Salmon was amazing... pan seared filet with spiced mocha crust, yellow mole, warm quinoa-radicchio salad, and mango-sesame dressing. Sorry for the crap pic.
Mrs. SFO went light with the Sena Plaza Chicken Salad, basil/mint pesto-marinated chicken tossed in guava-chipotle vinaigrette with summer veggies, radicchio, and butter lettuce, fried tortilla strips.
But then dug into my russet fries, served with morita ketchup and green chile crema.
One more view of the Cathedral as we headed back to the hotel to check out.
