"You won't find the best Mexican food in Santa Fe in a restaurant" -David Gray of the Santa Fe Journal

"It's not just the central Santa Fe location with the snazzy and inexplicably good paint job of everything from produce to cattle layered on the front windows. It's not only the paradigm-shifting selection of pi?atas available for purchase each and every day. It's not confined to the unreasonably large selection of tamale pots and tortilla presses. And it is definitely entirely unrelated to the dashboard-sized pig skins available for afternoon snacking. No, our passion for El Paisano is wholly f...

"It's not just the central Santa Fe location with the snazzy and inexplicably good paint job of everything from produce to cattle layered on the front windows. It's not only the paradigm-shifting selection of pi?atas available for purchase each and every day. It's not confined to the unreasonably large selection of tamale pots and tortilla presses. And it is definitely entirely unrelated to the dashboard-sized pig skins available for afternoon snacking. No, our passion for El Paisano is wholly focused on the fabulous food counter, where one may find tacos, tortas, burritos and gorditas in flavors ranging from the expected asadas and barbacoas to the significantly less gringo-friendly offerings of colitas de pavo and lengua desebrada." -The Reporter