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Lambert's of Taos
Lambert's of Taos has occupied a converted Bent Street adobe since 1989, when Zeke Lambert opened what was then the town's first contemporary American kitchen. Three and a half decades later the restaurant is in its second generation under the family, and Bent Street itself has filled in around it with galleries and small specialty shops — but Lambert's still reads as the senior address. The main dining room seats around fifty across two linked spaces, all linen tablecloths and low lighting, with a smaller patio that opens in summer and a sharper, more casual Treehouse Bar one floor up.
The Love Apple
The Love Apple occupies a small adobe chapel built in the 1860s on the north end of Paseo del Pueblo, the road that runs from the Plaza out toward the Pueblo. The building is preserved more than decorated: the original viga ceiling, hand-troweled mud walls, candles set into the wall niches that were once altars. There are twelve tables. The room operates on a single shift each evening from Wednesday through Sunday — a deliberate constraint that allows the kitchen to source from local producers most other restaurants cannot use at scale.
Medley
Medley sits at the bend where State Road 150 leaves El Prado and starts climbing toward Arroyo Seco and the ski valley, a five-minute drive from the Taos Plaza. The building reads as a high-desert roadhouse — low-slung pine-and-adobe, a small front porch, a wine shop attached to the dining-room wall that doubles as the restaurant's storeroom. Inside, around forty-eight covers across two rooms with hammered-copper lighting and a long communal table that anchors the back space.
Doc Martin's
Doc Martin's is the restaurant inside the Historic Taos Inn, the central building of which is the original home of Dr. Thomas Paul Martin, Taos County's first physician, built in the late nineteenth century. The dining room opens off the Inn's famous adobe lobby with its two-storey kiva fireplace; the room itself runs across what were once Dr. Martin's house, examination room, and waiting parlour, now a single sprawling space of around eighty covers with a low viga ceiling, white-stuccoed walls, and original heavy wooden doors.
De La Tierra
De La Tierra is the principal dining room of El Monte Sagrado, the Heritage Hotels resort that occupies a fourteen-acre property a five-minute walk east of the Taos Plaza on historic Kit Carson Road. The dining room is the architectural centrepiece of the property: a soaring forty-foot ceiling supported by hand-hewn vigas, a wall of windows opening onto the sacred pond and waterfall garden, and a small loft library above the main room that can be reserved for private dinners of up to twelve. Eighty covers in the main room, twelve in the loft.