Restaurants

“When are you going to El Meze?”  This is the question we’ve heard many many times from friends who consider it to be one the best restaurants in the entire…

We are smitten with the Arizona Inn — Tucson’s pink adobe boutique hotel on a fourteen acre estate, and we’ve nicknamed it The Tucson Valentine because it’s a place to…

All across New Mexico, each restaurant, diner, and road house cafe claims to have the ultimate GCCB, and we love this.  By now we’ve probably tried over half of the…

“To us, Sundance is and always will be a dream. What you see, smell, taste and feel here is a dream being carefully nurtured. It is an area whose pledge…

When we hear that an iconic venue is going into a remodel under new ownership, particularly when it’s the oldest bar / restaurant in the city that dates back to…

After all these years of craving them every day of every week, looking forward to each late summer harvest, and getting them into as many recipes as possible, we paid our…

As much as we plan out our road trips, inevitably on the last day we find ourselves in a rush to get home before dark. As a rule we don’t…

On a recent gorgeous blue sky day, we drove west of Durango to Mesa Verde.  It’s only 40 minutes away and we try to go at least three times a year.  On this…

It was the last day of our whirlwind trip through Arizona, traveling east on I-40 from Flagstaff, headed for Durango.  We’d put 1700 miles on the car and were ready…

For years Amy has talked about a beautiful lodge that sits 20 feet from the rim of the Grand Canyon, with a restaurant that has huge picture windows that frame…