Southwest Flavors - Culinary & Wellness...Cooking Vacations...Culinary Getaways...Cooking Classes!

PRICE PER PERSON - $749

Santa Fe, the nation’s oldest and highest capital city, has an abundance of art galleries, world-class restaurants, museums and recreational activities to please any visitor.  The diverse culture and impressive feast of flavors have drawn culinary travelers from around the world for over 300 years.  But many local chefs are now experimenting with regional ingredients to create a new, contemporary cuisine that reflects a mélange of cultural influences.

DAY ONE:
Your flavorful getaway begins by checking into a charming boutique hotel strategically located in the heart of Santa Fe.  Your first evening will provide ample free time to shop, gallery hop, or dine at one of the many restaurants recommended by the hotel’s attentive staff.

DAY TWO:
Your second day provides a wealth of adventure, as well as rejuvenation.  Start your morning with a hearty breakfast at one of the many unique cafes just steps from the hotel, then it’s off to your first culinary event as you join the staff at the Santa Fe School of Cooking to master the art of Southwestern flavors.  You’ll enjoy a progressive “tasting” lunch that will leave you both satiated in knowledge and appetite.  The afternoon is a time of relaxation at the hands of skilled technicians as they massage away your stress, and purify your spirit.

As the high desert sun begins to dip, it is time to think about the culinary adventure that will tastefully occupy your evening.  A festival of flavors will be prepared at the hands of Chef de Cuisine Eric DiStefano and his artful team of culinary professionals.  This evening you will enjoy the Chef’s seasonally selected five-course tasting menu that is sure to please even the most impassioned bon vivant.

DAY THREE:
The final morning comes too soon, but is made more palatable as you venture out to explore some of Santa Fe’s most treasured places.  After checking out, you will enjoy a professionally guided tour of the specialty galleries currently featured at the New Mexico Museum of Art.

BOUTIQUE HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
Hotel Plaza Real is a picturesque boutique hotel nestled just off the historic Plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This charming Santa Fe hotel offers 56 spacious guestrooms and suites adorned with handcrafted furnishings and a luxurious and comfortable plush bedding package. Most guestrooms offer private balconies and wood burning fireplaces for your enjoyment.

NAVAJO WELLNESS MASSAGE
Navajo Wellness – Signature Southwest Regional treatments using products made by Navajo Medicine Woman – Virginia Boone.  Each Navajo designed massage exclusively uses oils that are blessed, hand gathered, and made from a pure infusion of traditional Navajo herbs.

Your package includes a sixty-minute White Sage Massage to purify your body and spirit!  This massage oil is handmade with traditional Navajo herbs that are wildcrafted.  White Sage has long been used by native people as a way to purify and calm the spirit.

SOUTHWESTERN DINING EXTRAVAGANZA
Geronimo has established a reputation as the place to dine in Santa Fe. Tradition and innovation merge at Geronimo, a Canyon Road legend.  Located just a few blocks from the hotel nestled among art galleries on historic Canyon Road, Geronimo offers an elegant atmosphere where the cuisine is infused with Southwest flavors for an extraordinary dinging experience.  The food by Chef Eric DiStefano is fantastic, and the Chef’s five-course tasting menu is a culinary adventure in and of itself.

SOUTHWEST COOKING ADVENTURE
Located just steps from the historic Plaza, the Santa Fe School of Cooking is an internationally acclaimed, recreational culinary school and market specializing in foods of the southwest. Master the flavors of the real Southwest with a cooking class reflecting the unique cultural mix of Santa Fe and New Mexico.

DOCENT TOUR OF GALLERIES
The New Mexico Museum of Art building dates only to 1917, but its architects looked to the past, and based the design on the 300 year-old mission churches at Acoma and other pueblos.   The blending and cross-influences of Native American, Hispanic, and European-based cultures have created a unique body of work that is the basis of the New Mexico Museum of Art collection.