"The elegant, grown-up Compound Restaurant on Santa Fe's Canyon Road caters to devoted locals and tourists alike with a Southwestern-meets-Mediterranean focus. James Beard Award–winning chef Mark Kiffin scores with entrées like roasted rack of lamb, salmon with crispy pancetta, and wild mushrooms with organic stone-ground polenta. At lunch, the bar menu is less pricey and offers a chance to sample the famed Compound Burger, made with local Lone Mountain Ranch Wagyu beef, and washit down with a cold beer. Even with the fantastic cuisine, the best parts of this white tableclothand custom furnitureinstitutionremain the clean adobe arches and folk-art decorcreated by artist Alexander Girard."
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Photo courtesy of Compound Restaurant
