Over the past few years, Santa Fe, home to more than 200 restaurants, has earned itself a wonderful reputation as a foodie paradise, where the creativity famous to Santa Fe extends to your plate. Santa Fe cuisine is widely varied, ranging from local New Mexican flavors to creative Southwestern cuisine to authentic world cuisines. There is, however, no food more popular and well known to Santa Fe as the green chile. The legendary and innovative flavors of Santa Fe cuisine, including our local chile, will astound you and leave you hungering for more. Keeping Santa Fe on the map as a world-class culinary destination is a central mission to our popular Santa Fe Wine and Chile Fiesta. This fabled wine and chile fiesta is truly a taste of history. It combines wine, with New Mexico being the oldest wine-growing region in the United States, and the defining ingredient of this region’s cuisine, the New Mexico chile, into one unforgettable event. Book your stay at our well-appointed Santa Fe bed and breakfast now, so you don’t miss your chance to experience this amazing culinary event.
The 23rd annual Santa Fe Wine and Chile Fiesta is composed of a five-day weekend, from September 25th-29th, featuring the culinary artistry found throughout Santa Fe restaurants. 75 of Santa Fe’s top restaurants, along with 100 of our famed wineries, join together for a long weekend of cooking demos, wine seminars, winery luncheons and dinners, culminating in Grand Tasting at the Santa Fe Opera where all 75 restaurants and 90 wineries serve samples of their best food and wine. This event is dedicated to the fruitful pairing of wine and chile, attracting wine and food connoisseurs from around the globe. Wine seminars vary on topics from comparing old world to new world wines, wine and cheese pairings, and various (often blindfolded) taste-offs of different wine combinations. Cooking demonstrations feature celebrity chefs, such as Matthew Accarrino of SPQR in San Francisco, David Tanis, chef and New York Times ”City Kitchen” weekly columnist, our own Mark Kiffin of The Compound, and our James Beard Award semifinalist Martin Rios from Restaurant Martin. There will even be walking tours provided by guest chefs throughout the event.
The featured artist for the 23rd annual Santa Fe Wine and Chile Fiesta is William Haskel, who has painted a piece titled “Bound for Santa Fe”, which is a drybrush painting that depicts the beautiful landscapes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, historic adobe homes, and a vintage red pickup truck loaded with cases of wine. This painting, currently on display at the Manitou Gallery in Santa Fe, will be auctioned off at the Santa Fe Wine and Chile Fiesta’s live auction luncheon on Friday, September 27th. While some events for this years event have already sold out, there are still many more tickets available. Don’t hesitate to buy your tickets today, when you book your stay at our luxury Santa Fe bed and breakfast.
