La Casa Sena

Santa Fe


Several downtown restaurants have outdoor seating but this is the prettiest, in the flower-filled garden of an old adobe that also has a snug interior. The New Mexican food’s good too, with green chile cheeseburgers available all day, and fancier dinner dishes such as pan-seared scallops. Sit in the Cantina section to be serenaded by singing waitstaff from 6pm onwards.


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