Food In Santa Fe & Surrounding Areas

[DeerGirl]

does anyone have any recommendations for either specific restaurants in santa fe and surrounding areas? also, any recs for specific dishes that would either normally be made gluten-free or those i should be on the look out to avoid?

thanks!

[T.H.]

Restaurants, I'm afraid I'm not gonna be much help, eek! Grocery stores with gluten-free stuff, that I can do - whole foods, sunflower market, trader joe's, and Natural Grocer's (vitamin cottage is the old name, and can be googled by that). Natural grocer's is the cheapest, often.

Also, this is a site to check out: Open Original Shared Link

Has a few gluten-free restaurants listed for Santa Fe that might be of use. :-)

Also, if you are going to be in Santa Fe for a while? There is a dedicated gluten free bakery in Arizona that will actually deliver by mail within a couple days - they even have gluten free versions of twinkies!

( Open Original Shared Link )

Now as to foods to avoid? CHECK EVERYTHING MEXICAN. All the lovely corn tortillas and chips are very rarely uncontaminated. Wheat flour in the molds, or made on the same equipment as wheat tortillas, or the staff will flour their hands or work on the same surface for wheat and corn tortillas. I've seen so many recommendations that corn tortillas and chips are okay, but with two celiac family members living in NM near Santa Fe, I can tell you that it ain't so, most of the time.

The dips might do better, if you can get them to be careful, because there are many restaurants that make their chile sauces and guacamole from scratch, and so you can get it done without gluten.