El Nido

1577 Bishops Lodge Rd, Santa Fe - 87506
637 reviews
Italian American Seafood
(505) 954-1272

Amazing food, great service and reasonably priced! The best restaurant experience I've had in a while!

Food was delicious although a little pricey. Lovely atmosphere and attentive service.

Enjoyed dining on the covered outside patio. Service was friendly and attentive. Everyone enjoyed their entrees. The Limoncello Chicken was delicious and the black cod and salmon got favorable reviews as well. Will be returning.

Creative cuisine beautifully served. Drinks were also top notch.

We do really like going to El Nido and loved when it reopened in…was it 2016? The space is great and accommodating for outdoor dining has been very good. Before Covid, it used to be a great place to go for their Nido Rita and a pizza at the bar, or for a night out with friends. Then management changed and the menu with it, with what seemed limited selection. Their post lock down resurrection was valiant and much appreciated. Service has almost always been very good. Having said all that, in these past 2 years we have struggled to find favorites on this (/again) revised menu with fewer choices. And there have been several disappointing meals. Gone is the “ normal” pizza, gone is the cute Mac n cheese and gone are all the good bourbons from before! The service is still friendly and it would appear the latest Japanese effort in the previous private dining room has some of a following. Best of luck that they succeed. We will continue to give El Nido “another try” and crossed fingers that they find out where to land - hopefully it will land somewhere that we favor.

Best meal we have had in Santa Fe. We ate at Restaurant Martin the night before and El Nido blew that away.

The host and waitstaff were attentive and personable, even when switching out a drink that didn't work out as planned. Pleasant, mellow ambiance. Drinks and main courses were good. The one thing that stood out to us - and not in a good way - was the $9 bread plate. We ordered it hoping for something special. Instead, we got slices of standard sourdough and rye sandwich breads. The slices were dry, bordering on stale. An easily avoidable error.

This is really one of the best restaurants in Santa Fe…It has a very good waitstaff and a well prepared food ..A great ambiance ..

Flavors were very bland. Service was awesome and professional. We went before the opera only going due to proximity.

We planned on an evening in an upscale restaurant, and El Nido was precisely that, a comfy culinary nest, eh? We enjoyed our dinners immensely. We liked our appetizers, entrees, drinks and desserts. Our waitress was a sweetie-pie. I much admired two of the pieces of art on the walls.