Santa Fe Travel Diary

Word Pictures #2 from Santa Fe

by Mike Clay

Wandering to the Back Street Bistro

We like to do things without a schedule on vacation and we did that in Santa Fe. The Paseo de Peralta encircles the outer edge of the downtown and is a great place to ride, looking at the buildings and people enroute to somewhere else, like Canyon Road. In the old days Canyon Road was an Indian foot path leading east from the downtown area where the Santa Fe trail ended. Canyon Road became an art colony in the early part of this century. Today it is similar to Royal Street, with art galleries lining both sides of the road as it runs east from the downtown area towards the mountains. We enjoy visiting Judy’s, a dress shop on Canyon Road. She is an original and so is her dress shop and we like to stop and look.

Wandering around makes you hungry and we did our share of hungering. Seems like about the time that we finished with one meal it was time for another. The Back Street Bistro just fit the bill for lunch one day. It is located on a side street just south of the Paseo de Peralta. Their Caesar salad, Three Cheese sandwich on wheat and Tuna sandwich were fresh, and delicious. We shared the Sweet Pepper soup and it was perfect. The atmosphere is vibrant and colorful, the wait staff are attentive and the price for the meal including tip was under $20. We left refreshed and full and about two hours later began talking about supper.