By Alex De Vore for The Reporter

In one’s quest to eat healthier, there will be obstacles. This goes double for Santa Fe, where much of our dining options are all about bread, cheese and chile. Don’t get me wrong, I love all those things, but the older I get and the more I think about things like fiber and protein intake and, like, roughage and how ingredients get sourced, the more I find myself leaning toward eating fresh foods crafted by people who care about quality and how foods affect our bodies. Thus, when presiding over the what’s-for-dinner choice one recent night, I only needed to think for about two seconds before practically screaming, “Vinaigrette! It won’t make me feel gross!”

Ah, Vinaigrette, that constantly killer temple to all things salad built by proprietor Erin Wade (she also owns Modern General) where the salads and sandwiches are so good that the menu has barely changed since it first opened in 2008. Wade also wrote a badass letter slamming food delivery apps in 2020, right when the pandemic was forcing most restaurants into a weird form of subserviency that barely benefitted them if it did at all; and then there’s the whole thing where she grows a lot of the food used in the restaurant at a farm in Nambé. Actually? Vinaigrette is awesome. 

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