The New York Times Travel Section features 4 world class restaurants that feature some of the best southwestern cuisine you can imagine. The is not your El-Ranchero rice, beans, mystery meat in a wrap Tex Mex. This is the real stuff, and it sounds tantalizing.

Southwestern food is one of the pleasures of New Mexico, seeming to rise from the very land itself, at one with the adobe walls and piĆ±Ć³n bushes. Santa Fe is full of restaurants, from haute cuisine to hole-in-the-wall, which have made it their mission to maintain or develop this heart-warming (and sometimes tongue-burning) food.

Mark Miller’s famous Coyote Cafe, Casa Sena in its elegant old adobe palace and the chic SantacafĆ© two blocks from the plaza are world-class restaurants, and La Choza, Maria’s and Tia Sophia’s are local institutions. Whether you’re on a spree or a budget, Santa Fe will fix any craving for chili. The following four places all offer something distinct. - New York Times.

Web sites for the some of the restaurants:

• Coyote Cafe
• La Casa Sena
• Santacafe