heat lamps

Ten days or so ago, when we ate outside in Santa Fe (at La Boca), we nearly froze to shivering icy pieces: the heat lamps were running out of fuel (on a Sunday) - or that was their explanation, anyway.  Tonight, a far better experience - almost opposite - at Horno.  This was also some of the very, very best food that we've eaten in Santa Fe in an age.  I would order their miso grilled vegetables (which admittedly doesn't sound like a knock-over exciting dish) again and again and again.  And we were, more or less, warm.  We are cautious people ... and were indeed the only ones eating outside ... and various people paused to remark on how brave we were.  (Snow forecast for tomorrow).  But it was great!

And there was history involved ... Alice realized that this is where Josie's restaurant was, before it moved further up E. Marcy Street, before that, in turn, became a catering business - the owners, Josie and Ray Gallegos, shut up shop only last year, after 54 years making New Mexican food.  I only knew the restaurant as La Trattoria, and then as Il Piatto - but Alice once again claimed her long, long-standing roots in Santa Fe by recognizing the spot.