The Fork: Whatever Shall We Do With This Tia Sophia’s Gift Certificate?

Put your money where your mouths...is, dear readers

We love downtown eatery Tia Sophia’s. We love it so damn much. We used to go there with maman fourchette allllll-uh theeeee-uh tiiiiiiime-uh before we...actually, why did we stop doing that? Anyway, Tia’s has been many things to us at different times: the place where we get our favorite huevos rancheros of all time, a hangover respite, a place to see the community gather and even the source of bragging for any Colorado jamokes who still think their state does chile as well as New Mexico.

Tia’s is where, as the legend goes, the brekkie b was born (please note we don’t actually know or care where that thing came from, just that our lives are better for it), where Santa Fe musician Alex Maryol came up (his family owns the joint) and where we sat that one time with a new partner who ran into their ex and literally left with them without saying a word (and only a brekkie b could soften the blow).

A lot has happened there over the years, so imagine how pumped we were the other day to come into a gift certificate that’s for more than $20 and fewer than $1 million. At first we were all like, “Dude, we’re gonna go APESHIT down there with this thing!” But then a little voice spoke to us to say, “You should give it to your readers!” And who was that voice? The angel on our shoulder? Fuck, no, it was the person who gave it to us specifically for that purpose, only they hadn’t said so and we’re almost always immediately selfish, so...yeah.

Whatever shall we do with this gift cert, then? We’re giving it away, BUT NOT SO FAST, CHUMPS!

If you want this thing (which you most certainly should), we’re going to open up two ways to enter:

1. Send us an email to thefork@sfreporter.com and tell us whom you’d take and why. Make it good, though. None of this, “I’d take my mom because she’s really special and likes chile,” bullshit. Make us laugh. Make us cry. Use your words! MOVE US!

2. If you’re too lazy for that or just don’t wanna do it, prove to us that you donated to one of the food-based orgs below (there’s no minimum amount, but please be generous if you can).

Do either of those things and you’ll be entered, then we’ll pick our favorite entrant and send ‘em that bad boy. Just ask what’s-her-face and who’s-his-dick who have won prizes from us in the past—they just come in the mail and you can do whatever/whenever with them. In the meantime, how good is Tia Sophia’s? So good.

Anyway, here’s the official list of places to which you can donate if you want this thing (remember to get some kind of receipt or proof you did it):

The Food Depot (it’s a food bank and so much more)

Cooking With Kids (it’s about teaching kids to cook, not literally cooking dishes that feature children)

Reunity Resources (it’s a local farm that does all kinds of cool stuff with kids and adults and also has a free food pantry for needy folks)

We also figure there are other food-based places to donate, but those are the ones that most align with our whole gestalt right now. Sorry we said gestalt. Now enter our stupid contest or die!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9RS9yyWo6g

This makes us feel terrible.

Also

-You might have seen it writ in our regular food coverage from this week’s issue, but the ever-excellent Crepas-Oh! will soon have a Railyard location for all y’all Santa Feans. That’s so excellent, not least of all because the crepes are super freaking good. Like, they’re so good.

-Happy birthday to Santa Fe’s La Boca, which turned 17 earlier this year thanks to chef James Campbell Caruso’s commitment to dope-ass tapas, delicious wines and excellent service. Did you know Caruso even has a specialty grocery store/lunch counter attached to his flagship restaurant? You should, it’s cool!

-Word on the street is that former employees of Bumble Bee’s Baja Grill have moved across the street into the former Taco Fundación (or Bert’s Burger Bowl if you’re old) with a spot called Santa Fe Bee. There’s not really any online presence yet, so you’ll just have to take the word of our buddy Ryan who went there and says, “It was really good!” We’ll visit when we get a chance.

-One of our spies (by which we mean our buddy Ryan, who was really getting around this week) points out that there’s a new San Francisco Street Bar & Grill sign in the window at 50 San Francisco St. in downtown Santa Fe. We don’t know what this means yet, but we do know that San Francisco Street Bar & Grill, at least as we formerly knew it under the leadership of a dude named Robbie Day, closed years ago. More recently, the regional chain Lone Spur Café opened in there...then closed real fast because Santa Fe doesn’t mess around. We’ve got our ear to the ground and will report more if more becomes reportable.

-Santa Fe folks who didn’t just move here will likely recall the excellent shop Cheesemonger that sadly shut down a few years back. Well, it turns out the original founder, John Isaac Gutierrez, is dealing with some pretty intense spinal issues and is heading into surgery soon. Homeboy set up a Gofundme because, well, America is rough and people have a hard time just surviving. If you loved the cheese or aren’t tapped out from our challenge this week, check it out here.

-There are something like 66 winners of this year’s New Mexico Golden Chile Awards, and that’s pretty alright. What are the Golden Chile Awards? Well, they’re awards, OK, from the New Mexico Department of Health that are meant to—at least according to this release—”celebrate and commend the statewide efforts aimed at promoting good nutrition and supporting New Mexico’s farming economy.” Cool. If you want to learn more or see who won, click riiiiiiiiight here.

-The Arroyo Vino Wine Shop is doing a big old sale for fall with 10% off six or more bottles or 20% of 12 or more bottles. Woah, that’s pretty good! Or not, we don’t know—we do words only and do good of words because math too hard is for us all the time.

-Don’t forget about the Local Harvest Restaurant Celebration (it’s a celebration for harvests and restaurants) on Sept. 12 and 13. Click the link to learn more. Oh, and put the Santa Fe Wine and Chile Fiesta on your list, too, because that’s later this month and those tickets ALLLWAYYYYYS sell out fast. If you didn’t know, it’s a fiesta dedicated to wine and chile. Use your context clues, Beckie, God!

Because we love the cheese guy for his contributions to cheese.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj7ppP398pU

More Tidbits

-Producers for The Big Ol’ British Baking Show or whatever it’s called have announced that the show will no longer feature episodes dedicated to specific countries, especially after an episode in Season 13 featuring Mexican food came with hosts Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas making a whole bunch of racist jokes. Good riddance, says us.

-Meanwhile, over at Savuer-dot-com, a new piece dubbed The Problem with National Dishes digs into a new book by Anya von Bremzen that reportedly talks about why national dishes (think pizza or ramen) are silly.

-Subway, being the restaurant chain that smells THAT WAY, announced it will begin hosting dining experiences inside freaking blimps. Those blimps will be designed to look like Subway sandwiches. We...why does the world need this? It doesn’t? Cool. Anyway, it’s happening.

-What with recent news of Jimmy Buffet dying, writer Jaya Saxena tries to make sense of the concept of Margaritaville. Turns out it’s not just a state of mind adopted by the most high strung jerks you know who definitely don’t live the life but long to chill the eff out, it’s a restaurant, too, and the whole concept of taking it easy is kind of a myth.

A Totally Scientific Breakdown of The Fork’s Correspondence

This week in the print/online edition of SFR, learn why you should get to Crepas-Oh! immediately.

Number of Letters Received

32

*You tried your best.

Most Helpful Tip of the Week (a barely edited letter from a reader)

We won’t run the letters, but people are still crying about our beloved term “brekkie b.”

*Every time you tell us to stop we add another hundred years to our how-long-are-we-gonna-use-this-term plan.

Actually Helpful Tip(s)

“I like to eat burgers, but I have to remember to not eat them every day.”

*Reader Joseph F. dropping that good advice for all of us.

Certified,

The ForkWhatever Shall We Do With This Tia Sophia’s Gift Certificate?

Put your money where your mouths...is, dear readers

We love downtown eatery Tia Sophia’s. We love it so damn much. We used to go there with maman fourchette allllll-uh theeeee-uh tiiiiiiime-uh before we...actually, why did we stop doing that? Anyway, Tia’s has been many things to us at different times: the place where we get our favorite huevos rancheros of all time, a hangover respite, a place to see the community gather and even the source of bragging for any Colorado jamokes who still think their state does chile as well as New Mexico.

Tia’s is where, as the legend goes, the brekkie b was born (please note we don’t actually know or care where that thing came from, just that our lives are better for it), where Santa Fe musician Alex Maryol came up (his family owns the joint) and where we sat that one time with a new partner who ran into their ex and literally left with them without saying a word (and only a brekkie b could soften the blow).

A lot has happened there over the years, so imagine how pumped we were the other day to come into a gift certificate that’s for more than $20 and fewer than $1 million. At first we were all like, “Dude, we’re gonna go APESHIT down there with this thing!” But then a little voice spoke to us to say, “You should give it to your readers!” And who was that voice? The angel on our shoulder? Fuck, no, it was the person who gave it to us specifically for that purpose, only they hadn’t said so and we’re almost always immediately selfish, so...yeah.

Whatever shall we do with this gift cert, then? We’re giving it away, BUT NOT SO FAST, CHUMPS!

If you want this thing (which you most certainly should), we’re going to open up two ways to enter:

1. Send us an email to thefork@sfreporter.com and tell us whom you’d take and why. Make it good, though. None of this, “I’d take my mom because she’s really special and likes chile,” bullshit. Make us laugh. Make us cry. Use your words! MOVE US!

2. If you’re too lazy for that or just don’t wanna do it, prove to us that you donated to one of the food-based orgs below (there’s no minimum amount, but please be generous if you can).

Do either of those things and you’ll be entered, then we’ll pick our favorite entrant and send ‘em that bad boy. Just ask what’s-her-face and who’s-his-dick who have won prizes from us in the past—they just come in the mail and you can do whatever/whenever with them. In the meantime, how good is Tia Sophia’s? So good.

Anyway, here’s the official list of places to which you can donate if you want this thing (remember to get some kind of receipt or proof you did it):

The Food Depot (it’s a food bank and so much more)

Cooking With Kids (it’s about teaching kids to cook, not literally cooking dishes that feature children)

Reunity Resources (it’s a local farm that does all kinds of cool stuff with kids and adults and also has a free food pantry for needy folks)

We also figure there are other food-based places to donate, but those are the ones that most align with our whole gestalt right now. Sorry we said gestalt. Now enter our stupid contest or die!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9RS9yyWo6g

This makes us feel terrible.

Also

-You might have seen it writ in our regular food coverage from this week’s issue, but the ever-excellent Crepas-Oh! will soon have a Railyard location for all y’all Santa Feans. That’s so excellent, not least of all because the crepes are super freaking good. Like, they’re so good.

-Happy birthday to Santa Fe’s La Boca, which turned 17 earlier this year thanks to chef James Campbell Caruso’s commitment to dope-ass tapas, delicious wines and excellent service. Did you know Caruso even has a specialty grocery store/lunch counter attached to his flagship restaurant? You should, it’s cool!

-Word on the street is that former employees of Bumble Bee’s Baja Grill have moved across the street into the former Taco Fundación (or Bert’s Burger Bowl if you’re old) with a spot called Santa Fe Bee. There’s not really any online presence yet, so you’ll just have to take the word of our buddy Ryan who went there and says, “It was really good!” We’ll visit when we get a chance.

-One of our spies (by which we mean our buddy Ryan, who was really getting around this week) points out that there’s a new San Francisco Street Bar & Grill sign in the window at 50 San Francisco St. in downtown Santa Fe. We don’t know what this means yet, but we do know that San Francisco Street Bar & Grill, at least as we formerly knew it under the leadership of a dude named Robbie Day, closed years ago. More recently, the regional chain Lone Spur Café opened in there...then closed real fast because Santa Fe doesn’t mess around. We’ve got our ear to the ground and will report more if more becomes reportable.

-Santa Fe folks who didn’t just move here will likely recall the excellent shop Cheesemonger that sadly shut down a few years back. Well, it turns out the original founder, John Isaac Gutierrez, is dealing with some pretty intense spinal issues and is heading into surgery soon. Homeboy set up a Gofundme because, well, America is rough and people have a hard time just surviving. If you loved the cheese or aren’t tapped out from our challenge this week, check it out here.

-There are something like 66 winners of this year’s New Mexico Golden Chile Awards, and that’s pretty alright. What are the Golden Chile Awards? Well, they’re awards, OK, from the New Mexico Department of Health that are meant to—at least according to this release—”celebrate and commend the statewide efforts aimed at promoting good nutrition and supporting New Mexico’s farming economy.” Cool. If you want to learn more or see who won, click riiiiiiiiight here.

-The Arroyo Vino Wine Shop is doing a big old sale for fall with 10% off six or more bottles or 20% of 12 or more bottles. Woah, that’s pretty good! Or not, we don’t know—we do words only and do good of words because math too hard is for us all the time.

-Don’t forget about the Local Harvest Restaurant Celebration (it’s a celebration for harvests and restaurants) on Sept. 12 and 13. Click the link to learn more. Oh, and put the Santa Fe Wine and Chile Fiesta on your list, too, because that’s later this month and those tickets ALLLWAYYYYYS sell out fast. If you didn’t know, it’s a fiesta dedicated to wine and chile. Use your context clues, Beckie, God!

Because we love the cheese guy for his contributions to cheese.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj7ppP398pU

More Tidbits

-Producers for The Big Ol’ British Baking Show or whatever it’s called have announced that the show will no longer feature episodes dedicated to specific countries, especially after an episode in Season 13 featuring Mexican food came with hosts Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas making a whole bunch of racist jokes. Good riddance, says us.

-Meanwhile, over at Savuer-dot-com, a new piece dubbed The Problem with National Dishes digs into a new book by Anya von Bremzen that reportedly talks about why national dishes (think pizza or ramen) are silly.

-Subway, being the restaurant chain that smells THAT WAY, announced it will begin hosting dining experiences inside freaking blimps. Those blimps will be designed to look like Subway sandwiches. We...why does the world need this? It doesn’t? Cool. Anyway, it’s happening.

-What with recent news of Jimmy Buffet dying, writer Jaya Saxena tries to make sense of the concept of Margaritaville. Turns out it’s not just a state of mind adopted by the most high strung jerks you know who definitely don’t live the life but long to chill the eff out, it’s a restaurant, too, and the whole concept of taking it easy is kind of a myth.

A Totally Scientific Breakdown of The Fork’s Correspondence

This week in the print/online edition of SFR, learn why you should get to Crepas-Oh! immediately.

Number of Letters Received

32

*You tried your best.

Most Helpful Tip of the Week (a barely edited letter from a reader)

We won’t run the letters, but people are still crying about our beloved term “brekkie b.”

*Every time you tell us to stop we add another hundred years to our how-long-are-we-gonna-use-this-term plan.

Actually Helpful Tip(s)

“I like to eat burgers, but I have to remember to not eat them every day.”

*Reader Joseph F. dropping that good advice for all of us.

Certified,

The Fork