Eat in agua fria, Santa Fe

Joseph's Culinary Pub ★ 4.6

Chef Joseph Wrede, Food and Wine Best New Chef and multiple AAA Four Diamond winner, runs this 2013-opened pub-meets-fine-dining adobe on Agua Fria.

Signature: Duck-fat fries with truffle salt, Pork cheeks with mole, Lamb posole

Radish & Rye ★ 4.5

Radish & Rye pairs farm-to-table Southern plates with 175 American brown spirits in an Agua Fria adobe; bourbon flights and steak tartare lead.

Signature: Steak tartare with Calabrian chili, Bourbon-braised short ribs, Buttermilk fried chicken

Tune-Up Cafe ★ 4.5

Tune-Up plates pupusas, tacos al pastor, banana-leaf tamales and breakfast burritos in a Hickox adobe; Guy Fieri filmed Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives here.

Signature: Pupusas, Banana-leaf wrapped tamales, Tres leches cake

Radish & Rye Bar ★ 4.4

Radish & Rye sits closer to bourbon-bar than wine-bar (175 American browns) but pours bottle wine alongside Calabrian-chile steak tartare and bone-marrow.

Signature pour: Bourbon flight: Pappy, Weller, Willett

Wine focus: American brown spirits with rotating bottle wine

Food: Farm-inspired Southern plates

Susan's Fine Wine and Spirits Back Bar ★ 4.3

Susan's has sold Santa Fe over 1,000 wines, 400 craft beers and top-shelf spirits since 2005; the back bar serves cocktails next to the cellar shelves.

Signature pour: Weekly featured pour from the cellar

Wine focus: 1,000-bottle retail with a small craft-cocktail bar

Food: Bar bites

Rowley Farmhouse Ales Pub ★ 4.6

Rowley brews farmhouse sours and saisons in a small Maclovia Street facility; the gastropub plates farm-to-table dinners alongside the tank lineup.

Signature drink: House saisons and Belgian-style sours

Food: Farm-to-table gastropub plates

Rowley Farmhouse Ales ★ 4.7

Rowley brews barrel-aged saisons and mixed-fermentation sours in a small farmhouse-style production room on Maclovia, paired with a farm-to-table pub menu.

Tune-Up Cafe ★ 4.5

Tune-Up plates pupusas, breakfast burritos and tres-leches cake under $15 in a Hickox Street adobe near the Capitol; the line is regulars, not tourists.

Try: Pupusas plate

Rowley Farmhouse Ales ★ 4.7

Why locals love it: A Maclovia Street warehouse you'd never find by accident; the saisons and mixed-fermentation sours rival any small US sour program.

Tip: Try the tasting flight; the kitchen plates one of the best farm-to-table burgers in town as ballast.

Tune-Up Cafe ★ 4.5

Tune-Up Cafe runs brunch from 07:00 with pupusas, banana-leaf tamales, breakfast burritos and Salvadoran horchata; the patio fills early on weekends.

Order: Pupusas revueltas or a smothered breakfast burrito