Moon New Mexico UPDATE

A little slow on this, but the restaurant Rancho de Chimayo had a fire this summer. It’s closed until at least April 2009.

Mountain Treasures (p. 157) is shut. In fact, the building it was in is completely gone–always disorienting. Also, The Hole Thing is for sale, so might not be reliable for much longer.

Chef du Jour (p. 54) has expanded, and chef Jennifer James (formerly of Graze) is now cooking here. The dinner menu (yes, there’s dinner now too) changes monthly, and is a great deal.

Ambrozia (p. 55) is closed.

The Standard Diner (p. 56) has abandoned its high-low concept—all the same menu, and most of it under $20.

The Green Light Bistro (p. 56) is closed.

The Frontier (p. 57) is no longer open 24 hours—tragedy! It’s open 21 hours: 8am to 5am.

Dragonfly Café (p. 147) does only lunch and dinner now, not breakfast—plus Sunday brunch.

Joe’s Main Street Bakery (p. 147) is shut.

Gypsy 360 (p. 147) is now the Maverick County Café—totally different menu, but very good. Open only for long lunch (11am–4pm or so).

Antonio’s (p. 148) is closed; fortunately, Rellenos Café is still open.

The pastry chef at De la Tierra (p. 148) is gone; unfortunately I can’t vouch for the pastry quality any longer.

The Burrito Wagon (p. 148) is gone. (I saw it parked in someone’s yard a few blocks away—so sad!)

LeMoyne’s Landing (p. 99) is now a French café called Clafoutis, serving breakfast and lunch till 4pm. Tasty and fresh, and good pastries.

Coyote Café (p. 99) is no longer owned by Mark Miller, and has been taken over by the same restaurateur who owns Geronimo. I enjoyed my meal there, but the menu is completely different and the cooking—while ambitious on the surface—is actually pretty standard stuff. It’s certainly the place to schmooze in Santa Fe right now.

Kasasoba (p. 100) is shut. It’s now another high-end Asian place.

Tiny’s (p. 101) is incorrectly placed on the map. It’s actually off the east side of St. Francis Dr., south of Cerrillos—Pen Rd. here is not really a street, but a big parking lot.

Dave’s Not Here (p. 102) is shut.

Blue Window Bistro (p. 107) changed hands, but it’s still good. The menu is a bit different now, though—none of the chile relleno crepes.

A big fire gutted neighboring club Golden West, in Albuquerque, so Launchpad (p. 46) is at least temporarily shut from damage as well.

The Roswell visitors center (p302) is now at 912 N. Main St., in the convention center, and the new phone number is 575/624-6860.

Taste of Europe restaurant (p301) is closed.

Thanks to a reader for letting me know about these changes, as well as the corrections in the previous post.

Rates at Fire Water Lodge (p246) do _not_ include breakfast. I’m not sure if this is something that has changed since I did the research, or just some confusion on my part. Either way–apologies!

Same goes for the location of Pacific Grill (p247)–I listed its old address, when in fact it is located at 800 N. Date St. (I guess I sensed something was wrong when I was doing the map, because I placed it on the map at 304 _North_ Pershing–closer to where I remembered it being. A lesson to always mark up maps before I leave town!)

A helpful reader reports that this restaurant in Ruidoso (p323) has changed hands, and it no longer has a liquor license–that means no beer with your pizza, alas.

Due to an editing error, Kranberry’s restaurant (p267) in Lordsburg has a spiffy little extra-recommended “moon” symbol next to it. In fact, Kranberry’s is nothing remarkable–the “moon” was meant for a great restaurant in Lordsburg that unfortunately closed just before the book was going to press. At least I can say that as of mid-December, Kranberry’s was open and perfectly serviceable.