A taste of Taos: savor a gourmet getaway in the northern New Mexico mountains

A taste of Taos: savor a gourmet getaway in the northern New Mexico mountains - Three-Day Weekend

You're sitting beneath the stars on the patio of Momentitos de la Vida, a mountainside adobe more than 150 years old that now houses excellent restaurants. Just when you think that the evening couldn't get any better, the waiter delivers a pistachio-crusted rack of Colorado lamb on wilted greens with limechipotle demiglace.

Such sophisticated cuisine has become surprisingly common around Taos, a once-sleepy village nestled beneath the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

"When we first came to Taos, we had trouble getting Dutch-processed cocoa. Now we get such beautiful products that it's hard to believe," says Kelly Maher, who owns Momentitos de la Vida with business partner Chris Maher. "We'll have people tell us this or that is the best dish they've had since they were last in France."(Continue Reading)

A taste of Taos: savor a gourmet getaway in the northern New Mexico mountains - Three-Day Weekend
You're sitting beneath the stars on the patio of Momentitos de la Vida, a mountainside adobe more than 150 years old that now houses excellent restaurants.(Continue Reading)

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