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Secretly brilliant [restaurant review] SHARE A celebrated chef elevates bar food at Hermosa Brewing by Richard Foss I was one of the first customers when Hermosa Brewing Company opened in 2018, though that was an accident. My brother and I were walking away from dinner elsewhere when we noticed that the lights were on, so we stopped in for a pint. We had more than that, not only because the beer was good, but because the fellow who served it was a pleasant host and a fountain of information about brewing. It was the first of several visits, always after dinner somewhere else because their menu was limited and the environment usually loud and packed. Over time I heard from readers that I really should give the food a chance, and after they opened outdoor seating my main objection to the place went away. I scanned the online menu and was agreeably surprised. That kitchen was still turning out burgers and fries, but in several permutations, and they also had seafood pozole, cauliflower soup, sweet chili pork ribs, and much more. Something must have changed.
Used to be, you could only trust maybe a shop or two in Santa Fe. In the old days, there was Four Star Tattoo owned by Dawn Purnell and Mark Vigil, who carried on the work started by the late, great tattooer Bill Wissman. It was unequivocally the best (with respect to other shops that were pretty OK, but not the best). Purnell eventually peeled off to open Dawn's Custom and apprentice artists of her own; Vigil continued the work at Four Star, training a new generation of artists like Scott Buffington, J. Green, Crowe B. Rising (who runs the private studio Talis Fortuna), Jeffrey Pitt (also a private studio owner) and newcomer Miguel Chavez, as did Purnell. Both would welcome guest artists who became part of the family (like Guido Baldini at Four Star, who'd go on to open Lost Cowboy with his apprentice Owen Lostetter, now a kickass artist in his own right) and Amelia Albright at Dawn's Custom—and someplace within all of that, a young artist named Zac Scheinbaum learned the trade.