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    I am going to make this review as delightful as an unripe crab apple.

    A group of friends and I went to the Love Apple to have dinner on our last day in Taos, and we needed separate checks because we were paying for ourselves. Makes sense, right? Well, our server did not see it that way; she let out a great loud sigh to the whole table when we told her our request. Dinner just went down hill from there.

    She missed half the table on drink orders, consistently messed up requests, and had the gull to tell us we had to wait 25(!) minutes just so she could tabulate 9 checks! And she took longer than that. She even requested that we pay 20% gratuity for her awful service.

    Delicious food, great atmosphere, HORRENDOUS service. The group I ate with visits Taos once a year. If I have my way, it will be the first and last time I take a bite at that bitter apple.

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    Great food. Great atmosphere. Terrible service.
    This is supposed to be fine dining, but the way you get treated at a restaurant should be a huge part of that experience. For the amount you're paying, I'd recommend spending your money elsewhere.

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    The food was great, and the atmosphere terrific.  Unfortunately we had a server who was able to negate all of that by treating our large party poorly.  We had made reservations for 11 and were seated promptly, this past Saturday night.  However, our server proceeded to take drink orders from only four of us and forget the rest, until we said something.  Then she was about to do the same for the meal order.  Who has to tell a server to take an order.  Her performance was augmented with scowls and delays.  Either something horrible had just happened to this person, or she hates her job, or she hated our party.  Whatever it was, she should not have been working that night.  She is lucky though--we decided to pay the pre-added tip, because she had kept us so long that we could not wait around to complain and lower the amount to the 10% she deserved.  I suppose sloth can occasionally pay off.

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    The Love Apple's menu is seasonal, delicious, and well-executed. I ordered the house specialty of grilled trout topped with a chipotle cream and served alongside a quinoa fritter. Exquisite! The restaurant's ambiance is intimate and inviting, and the patio is perfect for dining on a warm summer evening.

    Unfortunately, the server assigned to our group of 11 all but ruined our dining experience, due to her lack of professionalism and competence. She was neither personable nor accommodating. She expressed obvious displeasure at having to serve a large group---neglecting to take drink orders from half of the table, asking us to combine checks when we asked for separate checks (a reasonable request, given the restaurant's cash- or check-only policy), taking 30+ minutes to complete our checks at the end of the meal, etc. None of us disputed the 20% gratuity, but we left the restaurant dissatisfied and upset.

    It is a shame that the managers of this restaurant allow such begrudging service, since it is otherwise a Taos gem.

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    Love this little place. I come to Taos just to dine here. Really amazing---- and great service, too. REALLY good!!!

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    My wife and I celebrated our anniversary here a couple of years ago and frequently reminisce about what a perfect meal it was.  I hope Love Apple is still around if we ever make it back to Taos.

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    A real gem that is so close to being great. Food quality and taste are spot on. Price for this caliber of food is very reasonable. Service was attentive and personable. On the less positive side, entrees could have been warmer, the portion size for all dishes were modest and the cash only policy isn't customer friendly.

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    Heard about this restaurant in Taos Magazine, visited the website and was intrigued by the variety of smartly prepared food.  We arrived at 5pm on a Saturday night and were able to get a table without reservations and chose to sit inside.  The interior was romantic with candle lights. Everything on the menu looked yummy but finally decided on the special.  The special was venison loin steak served over a bed of au gratin potatoes and topped with tomato jam.  The tomato jam was out of this world, acidic but with a light sweetness.  My hubby had the gnocchi with lamb sausage.  He went on and on about  the flavor of the lamb sausage.  The wait staff was attentive.  The building is about 100 years old and was formerly a church, the church stage is still in place and used for setting.  We noted many people were enjoying their meal on the outside patio.

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    Romantic but the waitstaff is uncomfortable. The darkness is cool, the food is all over the place but mostly pretty good. I think appetizers might be smart, dessert was too much but the lemon thing was perfect. I think if the waitstaff chilled out it would be pretty damn good. They should patio the back. I took a romantic picture of some romantic people sitting where the priest would stand if this was a church. Is it? I'm impressed - Taos food hasn't impressed me much yet. A lot of rich white people like to eat at this place. It's not too expensive either. I'd rather eat here than a lot of the junk near the plaza. It should be tried at least a few times. So, try it.

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    I absolutely love this place!!  So much so that I'm thinking about going back two nights in a row.  The food is amazing.  The menu changes a lot based on what's in season.  They focus on regional, organic, whole foods.  I loved the combination of familiar foods/ flavors with some unexpected (like the antelope or quinoa grits).  The wine list is also great.  Everything is reasonably priced, especially considering how delicious and healthy the food is.  It's a romantic, but relaxed environment (ie, I didn't feel awkward dining solo).  It's maybe a 10 minute drive from the Taos Plaza, but worth it.  One thing to note is that they don't take credit cards.

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    I wish we lived in Taos so we could make this restaurant part of our regular dining experience. I was in love from the moment I walked in. The ambience is perfect, the decor, everything. The food is amazing and freshly made, I'm more in love that they used organic and local foods. My husband had the chicken pot pie and I had the quail, both were prepared wonderfully and the food tasted unlike anything I've ever had before.

    I would recommend reservations as it is quite small and it stays busy. The waitstaff is friendly and knowledgeable and they never rush you which is nice. It is cash or check only, something we didn't realize till we got there, but luckily there was a bank ATM just down the street.

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    We tried one more time before we have to leave Taos... Im so sorry Love Apple the kitchen needs to get better... The Gnocchi was very sweet and there were only like 7 small pieces :( Really very disappointed. We loved the atmosphere and the servers are nice but I'm still paying I should be able to enjoy what I pay?

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    Let me start off by saying that this was our favorite restaurant in our entire NM trip...and we researched and ate out a lot!  The setting itself is romantic, serene, and comfortable.  Epitome of Taos.  The cornbread everyone was raving about was good, but not as good as what we were hoping (we had amazing bread at Luminaria in Santa Fe so its hard to compare).  But our entrees more than made up for a lackluster appetizer.  I had the quail, which was deboned to perfection.  It came on top of a creamy quinoa and had pomegranate seeds that provided a wonderful texture - party in the mouth!  My husband had the rainbow trout that he kept raving about in between bites.  It looked like we licked our plates!  I had the panna cotta and he had a pear tart - both great ways to end a meal.  Considering how our amazing meal and wonderful ambiance, the prices were a steal.  We HIGHLY recommend this restaurant!

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    French vibe, wonderful ambience and good, interesting food. It's about the experience, from the entrance via kitchen to the old chapel dining space, so don't go if you're in a hurry. Little gem in the heart of Taos.

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    I tried this place for the first time and I am a fan. It is a really cute restaurant it was too cold to sit on the patio but I've heard the patio is also great during the summer months. I went with a group someone tried the trout and I had the tamales. Everything was delicious.

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    The food was all awesome!  We had the cornbread (the butter was amazing!), salad (very flavorful), tamale with molé and lamb (both great - seasonal menu), and salted caramel ice cream and chocolate flour less cake. All of it was amazing!  We will be back!

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    Snooty French restaurant.  No reservations?  Expect to be rudely stuffed in a table that is too small, and be politely reminded of their seating timeline because you 'missed' their 'wave'.  An hour and a half to eat?  That sounded like plenty, but they took their sweet time in getting anything out to us.  This would have been fine if they hasn't just informed us that we have a certain amount of time to eat.  Oh, and don't forget the place is cash or check only.  This is in very fine print on the menu, and I didn't see it anywhere else.  In a restaurant this expensive, they better tell you up front about this, but they didn't. Luckily, we had the cash.

    With all of that said, the food was amazing.  All appeared to be home made and all of it was tasty.

    The one star is because they are snooty.  They have an attitude that their customers should work around the restaurant's time frame and their own made up requirements.  If I'm going to spend this much money on food, the restaurant should work around ME and MY requirements, not the other way around.

    I won't be going back.  This is Taos, NM, not Paris.

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    Lovely dinner here, though I had one problem when trying to order - many of the dishes are made with cilantro. I can't stand the stuff and it makes me queasy, so I try to avoid it. That greatly reduced my options for dinner, so I don't think I was able to really sample some of the more interesting dishes offered. Sad for me :(
    I ended up with a burger - which was good - but because that was about my only option, I felt cheated and whiny because so many other things looked goooooood.
    The menu changes all the time, so when i am back in Taos, I hope for a few more items that won't have the nasty cilantro in them. :)
    Service was great (and extra points to our server who made sure to confirm ingredients and put up with us and still smiled and charmed his way through our meal)
    Definitely check it out.

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    The Love Apple is, simply, the loveliest restaurant in New Mexico.  Housed in a 19th century adobe church, with a pretty wooden steeple, and a beautiful courtyard, this restaurant is fully New Mexican while vaguely evoking supper in a farmhouse in the South of France, or on a country estate in a valley nestled in the Alps. Wood floors, wood beams, and an understated decor let the natural beauty of the building quietly glow.

    The food is locally sourced and the meat humanely raised. Each of the ingredients is pure and fresh and wonderful - and the preparation is exquisite.  The cornbread muffins can't be missed (honestly!) and the veggie tacos are nothing like the tacos I've had before. They're rich and delicious with a nod to what you might think of as as a taco, but creamy and always seasonal; sometimes butternut squash, sometimes white beans, always with pepitas - all sorts of combinations that turn tacos on their head. The perfectly steamed trout stays on the menu, too, but don't  forget to pay close attention the specials. Most of the menu changes (except the year-round cornbread, thank goodness!) with the season, and the specials change with the week, and sometimes even the day - I've had some obscure and amazing mushrooms that only appear rarely.

    The wine is wonderful, the beer menu is good (I've heard), and the service is impeccable with lovely servers treading lightly in their homemade aprons. If you're lucky, you'll catch a glimpse of the owner's young daughter - perhaps she'll lead you to your table with an ethereal blush. My husband and I came here when we first met, and many many times afterwards, and then... I had my 'bachelorette' party here (small and sweet), and then, we had our rehearsal dinner here as well, the night before we got married. Everything was perfect, every meal was perfect, every experience was perfect from our first dinner of two to a rehearsal dinner of sixty. Romantic and calm, perfect for after a day of hiking, skiing, after a day by the fire - or any other time, you'll enjoy the Love Apple with a date, with your mother, with your family, or with friends - I've even peeked a lovely lady or two with just her book for company here.

    I think of The Love Apple as our own petite Chez Panisse... but not quite so fancy or famous.  Its a small town, but don't forget to make your reservation, they are often full and don't like to let it get too crowded... and don't forget it is cash or check only - kind of a Taos thing.

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    We happened upon this restaurant quite by accident and we were happy we did! It was so charming looking - with it's little, toppled steeple and it's glowing lights, we ventured in for a light meal. The ambience was cozy and romantic, all the candles glowing, little white lights twinkling. Although they were full, they let us have a table that was reserved for a large party an hour later, since we were just having appetizers. The service was friendly and thoughtful and the food was yummy!
    I had a couple of sides and some soup - the creamed corn with green chiles was yummy, the tortillas with various dipping sauces was delicious. My friends shared a salad and an appetizer. We were all delighted with our experience!
    I'd definitely go there again, especially for a romantic dinner!

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    The Love Apple prepared one of the most enjoyable meals I've ever eaten. Housed in an old white adobe church, diners enter through a glass door into a sanctuary of excellently prepared organic food. We selected the tamales with red mole sauce and the polenta bolognese. Both dishes were filled with flavors -a real treat for the senses. Dessert was chocolate pot du creme with a side of salted caramel ice cream. Incredible. The waiter was friendly and informative. If you are in Taos and you miss this, too bad for you because this place is just great.

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    Based off reviews, I singled out this place as a "must go" on our weekend in Taos. I was soooooo right. This place is amazing and if you are in Taos, you must to eat here.

    Everything was perfect. The ambience is wonderful and the setting gorgeous- such a charming building. The service was outstanding. And the food. Ah- the food. Incredible. The best meal we have had in a long time.

    Upon the recommendation of our server, we started with a half order of the cornbread and the roasted poblano. The cornbread is amazing. Seriously. We almost got mad at him for not insisting we order the full order! The roasted poblano was also delicious- though a bit too many chips for my taste.

    I had the trout. Awesome. Perfectly steamed inside the corn husk and a delicious sauce.
    Hubs had the special which was a grass fed ribeye with guacamole and spicy mashed potatoes.
    We couldn't stop eating off each other's plates.

    We're not always ones to opt for dessert but with how flawlessly executed everything else was, we decided it couldn't be missed here.

    My honey is a sucker for anything rhubarb and they happened to have a rhubarb cobbler so he had to get it. Torn between the highly recommended pot de creme and mint ice cream, our server suggested that we get the pot de creme in lieu of the ala mode for John's cobbler.
    Wow. Yes. Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes.
    Everyone should get 3 desserts here.

    Then return the next night and get everything else on the menu you missed the night before.
    We would have done this but alas, they were closed for a private party.
    Next time. Nothing else we ate the entire weekend held a candle to the offerings of the Love Apple.

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    The food and ambience was 5 stars. I had the blue corn muffins and beet salad for appetizers. The muffins melted in my mouth and the beet salad was fresh and tasty.
    I had the rainbow trout for my entree. It was cooked perfectly and the sauce was light even though it was cream based.
    Our dinner was moving along very smoothly until we asked about dessert. The server said she would have to come back and tell us about them. She was busy at other tables. We waited for 15-20 minutes she told us the dessert options (they sounded delicious) but we could tell it might be another long wait. We asked for the check and that took another 15 minutes. We spent over 2 hours in the restaurant which would have been ok had we gotten dessert. Maybe they should make dessert menu or post the desserts on the chalk board outside. Also I noticed the little paper napkins seems odd.  My husband laughed and said another yelper mentioned that in their review too.
    I gave it 5 stars for the quality of the food and unique ambience.

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    After reading these reviews I had to check this place out.  The salads were out of this world.  The lamb meatballs were excellent, the tomato sauce they were in was a little strong (but I just ate the meatballs and veggies). The tortilla's were fresh and tasty. My significant other had the rainbow trout and said it was the best trout he had ever had.  Dessert was also wonderful, peach cobbler with gelato. Don't miss this place.

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    Best meal we had in New Mexico. I had the lamb meatballs, which had NOTHING to do with Southwestern cuisine, which we were tired of after 3 days. Good wine list

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    Per usual.... Taos knocks it out of the park with world-class restaurants!  Love Apple hits the nail on the head on all fronts.... truly unique and perfectly planned space (an old church, with a lovely outdoor courtyard); amazing menu with a real focus on locally sourced farm-to-table; and a stellar wine menu.  

    We had the corn bread to start (don't miss it), and a great fresh salad with mixed spring greens, walnuts, goat cheese, assorted other goodies and the freshest lemon and honey based dressing I've ever tasted.   I had a pork loin with braised greens and peaches... holy delicious batman!  I had to fend off forks from all directions! My dinner-mates had fresh fish and vegetarian tacos... also both knocked out of the park.   We all left happy and well fed.  

    If you are visiting Taos, this is a MUST.

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    One of the best meals I have ever eaten.   Well presented.  Hand made tortillias were amazing.  I often consider driving from Denver to Taos just to eat here again.

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    We keep coming back to the Love Apple, and have never been disappointed. The food and atmosphere here are among the best in Taos.  The menu, while not large, is distinctive and varied.The last time I had an antelope steak (a special, first time for me) which was wonderful, and my wife had ratatouille, which she loved. Everything is fresh and  Wine and beer only.

    One complaint - really, at these prices, paper napkins???  That sullies a classy, clean and romantic atmosphere and they should know better.

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    This restaurant was highly recommended but our visit started off poorly when staff members repeatedly rushed by us and another couple at the door as we stood waiting to have our names checked from the reservations list...To be fair, they had a small reception going on when we arrived, which made the.staff's s attention a bit distracted.

    The portions were generous; but the food we had was not great. Potato-pea-sorrel soup was pretty, but so wan we didn't finish it. Trout was well prepared, but the pan-seared gnocchi was served in a very bland broth which was so similar to the soup, I thought it WAS some of the soup. Gnocchi is subtle, and I expected a lovely sauce - to enhance it, instead the dish was dull.

    The dessert of salted caramel ice cream was fabulous. And we liked the coffee, which was served in indiviual french press pots. Our waitress was civil; the ambience heavy on the 'shabby' side of chic. The meal with 2 glasses of wine was $100. They only take cash or checks.

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    One of the highlights of our trip to NM. We would even include Love Apple in some of our favorite all time restaurants from around the country.

    Everything we had was mind blowing. It just goes to show what a different fresh,local foods can make to the taste buds if you slow down and actually savor the experience.

    No suggestions for improvement except maybe consider opening for lunch?

    We'll be back!

    PS. Cash and Checks only...which I think is a great idea

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    My husband and I took a trip to Taos last May and I used Yelp to find good local restaurants. The Love Apple came up and we decided to give it a try. We ate there every night since!! Small, romantic, organic, and the food has such an infused flavor that I still crave a year later. We found the food in Taos to be amazing, but this by far was our favorite. I would travel back just so I could eat there again!! The strawberry salad drizzled with honey was delicious and the list keeps going and getting better from there. We couldn't pass up the home made ice creams and lemon tarts. Yummy!! My mouth is watering even as I write this. If you make you're way to Taos, do yourself the favor and stop by for dinner!!

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    We couldn't have been more lucky that this place was right next door to where we stayed in Taos. We fell in love with the Love Apple. Imaginative flavors while staying simple and local. One quote from our party was "upscale comfort food." The feel of the décor is fairly stark but cozy at the same time. The food was both rustic/farm-to-table and elegant/creative.

    We ate an avocado/beet/grapefruit salad. Venison sausage. Quail with Quinoa. and a Pork Stew. All delicious. The blue corn muffins with sage-orange butter were TO DIE FOR and the homemade mexican chocolate ice cream to finish was bowl-licking good.

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    The name "Love Apple: derives from the French 'Pomme d'Amour", for tomato, attributed to the fruit's aphrodisiacal properties.

    Everything about this place reeks of romance and love. First of all, it's in an old adobe church which has been changed and renovated to become a wonderful little restaurant. Candles are lit, people speak in hushed tones, a beautiful giant pencil sketch painting of an unmade bed which two lovers have recently very obviously vacated dominates one wall, while where the alter used to be is decorated with a giant silver cast mirror and calabra candle holders.

    One would think that stepping into such a place alone as a single diner would make one feel a bit awkward. Not at all.

    I was welcomed warmly (reservations are a must here) and the owner immediately asked if I would like to read something while I dined. That's never happened to me before. I declined, instead prefering to take in the ambiance and ethos of the place instead. Beside me, a family of 3 generations was seated, grandparents, parents and child, all enjoying the place just as much as the couples in their hidden alcoves. At the front, at the site of the old alter, was a long table seating at least ten, and it was taken up by a lively party. So in a word, there's space for everyone here and all types.

    Now the food. Everything here is organic and comes from local producers,  the wine list is personally selected from the owner and it's quite clear she knows exactly what she's doing and what goes with what. The house specialty is the rainbow trout with lime and coriander butter. Rainbow trout can only survive in the cleanest and purest fresh water and is often used as a litmus test to see how clean the waters are and Northern New Mexico is blessed with such rivers. I ordered that and it came baked in a corn hust, almost resembling a tamale. It was amazing. In fact, my starter of wild mushrooms with truffle oil, my trout, and my Panna Cotta  along with the glass of wine I had, all hit it out of the ballpark.

    Come here and see what a great resaurant is all about. I wish I was in Taos longer because for sure, I'd come back over and over again just to try out their entire menu if I could.

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    I was there a year ago during my trip to New Mexico. It's a very romantic place. The restarant was a church before. And the heart shape on the gate wins my love a lot.
    My bf ordered steak there, it's the best steak we've ever tasted in US! It feels countryside authentic yummy yummy steak! :D
    And the dessert is made very cute! with a heart shape cookie on top :D Love it!

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    Best meal I had while vacationing in New Mexico.  The menu includes a delightful selection of new-American and Southwestern-inspired dishes that use fresh local ingredients.  Favorites of the evening were the trout with lime butter and quinoa cake and French-style lentil soup.  The strawberry-rhubarb crisp with creme fraiche ice cream was to die for.  The posole was a bit one-dimensional, but I think that's just what posole is.  

    Excellent wine list.  Reasonable prices. Lovely service, and very nice ambiance--the building is an old church.  

    A definite must for foodies in Taos!

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    The first thing that greets you walking in to the love apple is a sign saying they only take cash or checks.  This instantly makes me suspiciousness of the quality.  If the owners are to cheap to provide card service what other corners are they cutting?

    Overall the food wasn't bad, but it was def overpriced.  There are lots of great places in Taos and this one just wasn't that special.

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    Came here over Christmas vacation. Of all the places we ate in the region, Love Apple had the cutest and most romantic atmosphere and the menu was comprised mostly of organic and local ingredients.

    We had the salad, chestnut/pinon soup, rainbow trout with chile crema sauce and the slow cooked salmon with lemon and onion sauce.

    The standout dish was the trout, which was extremely tender and with a smooth chile creme sauce.

    The restaurant is in a church which was built in the late 1800s and it took over a year to renovate into a restaurant. The perimeter of the room was lined with candles and other catholic fetishes.

    Service was attentive and knowledgeable and the menu could accommodate my GF (gluten free) companion's diet.

    Highly recommended if you are visiting Taos. Please note they only accept cash or check.

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    This was our best restaurant experience in Central and Northern New Mexico during a 10 day trip filled with excellent culinary stops. The Love Apple manages to stand out in a crowd of exemplary contenders with a mix of unique atmosphere (A 200 year old former Church building), cordial and low-key service and amazing, locally-sourced (organic wherever possible food). It was so good that we eschewed the Frommer's recommended Josephs Table to eat at the Love Apple one more time.

    - 5 Stars off the bat

    The wine selection is decent and if you're just getting a glass or two and like Spanish reds, the Grenache is excellent. My fiancée didn't want a full glass and they were happy to bring a half glass for her. The service is unassuming, low-key and completely pretension free which we feel is essential for any restaurant to get a 5-star rating in the 21st century. If I want to spend a lot of money and be judged and treated with condescension, we'll baby-sit some pre-teens.

    - 5 Stars still

    There are a number of salad and soup appetizers while the usual New Mexican suspects like the Rellenos etc. are conspicuously absent. If you're not from the South West and have been traveling in New Mecixo for a while like us, this is a welcome relief from the mounds of melted Cheese and ubiquitous Chile that seems to crawl into every nook and cranny of the food.

    We started with the Beet Avocado and Grapefruit Salad and Soup of the day that happened to be a black bean soup with a twist. The twist was a subtle infusion of tequila that brought out some very interesting flavors in the beans and the spices. Both dishes were delicious!

    +2 for Appetizers (7 Stars total)

    After moaning and groaning with indecision over the entrees (much to the amusement of our good-natured sever) we both decided on the Tamale. Mainly because everyone around us assured us that we had to try it but also because we hate it when one of us gets a better dish than the other.

    The Tamale is simply indescribably amazing. The corn-meal is soft, moist and slightly nutty while the filling is a delightful mixture of cheese and local greens. The Oaxacan mole is a much welcome departure from the thinner chile typical of NM cuisine. Thick, deep red and rich with a ninja-like heat that starts in the back of your mouth and slowly suffuses your entire mouth without having the donkey-kick-to-the-gut effect of strong chili. The Pièce de résistance is the perfectly fried (Sunny-side up!) egg perched precariously on top of the tamale. Gently cutting into the runny yolk to watch it cascade slowly over the mole and the tamale is the perfect garnish to the whole experience.

    On my second night here, I opted for the Posole (Traditional New Mexican soup/stew 'stoup'?) with the lamb sausage while my fiancée (smartly) stayed with the Tamale. The lamb sausage was excellent but I was a little underwhelmed by the Posole. After trying different variations at different places, I've decided that I simply do not care for the thin flavor of the broth and palate feel of the dish in general.

    +1 for Entree (8 Stars total)

    At this point, we had become well-fed, compliantly malleable puppets in our servers hands and could not even muster the token protests against his dessert suggestion. Only our desire to run the Rio Grande Gorge trail the following morning provided sufficient resistance to order only one Panna cotta to be shared instead of completely pigging out.

    O silky and delectable dessert perfection! Could I but channel Keats or Shelley so I could write sweet, sappy, girly verse to sing thy praise!

    Best panna cotta we've had period. This includes anything we've had while visiting my sister-in-law in Torino, in the Piemonte region of Italy which is supposedly the historical birthplace of the Panna cotta dishes.

    +2 Stars (total 10).

    There you have it. 10 stars rounded down to 5. Highly, highly recommended from someone who doesn't usually gush about places. If you are in Taos, and you like good food you must eat here. Reservations recommended and take cash or checkbook. They don't take plastic.

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    In terms of ambiance, there is nowhere in Taos quite like the Love Apple. Housed in a refurbished church, it is an ideal setting for a romantic dinner. The prices are fair, with entrees at an average of fourteen dollars a plate. The food is an interesting fusion of New Mexican/Nouveau American fare and French cuisine. There are many vegetarian options, and a great local wine list. Anybody visiting Taos who is interested in local food should go here. My veggie tacos were kind of fall-y apart-y, but still tasty. The cornbread was quite good, as were the squash and sweet potato quesadillas. The point of view of the chef is interesting, and I would recommend the Love Apple to anybody who wants to eat someplace unique and offbeat.

    The hostess is very nice, and she reminds me a bit of Maggie Gyllenhaal. Our waitress was very rude and annoying. She flirted with my boyfriend and our male friend and was condescending to me when I asked her a question about the menu. When I ordered the veggie tacos with the red chile posole, she pretended that she didn't know what I was talking about, and rudely declared, "we're just going to have to clarify what you mean by that." It was really bizarre. Then, at the end of the meal, when my boyfriend and friend asked about how big the tarts were, she responded that they were "however big you want me to cut them," which struck us all as being weirdly sexual. If you go here on a date, make sure you don't get stuck with her, unless you want to see your date get hit on by a spandex-clad floozie all evening. She was my only real problem I had with this place.

    Also, they only accept cash and check, so leave your plastic at home.

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    I am so glad we found this lovely gem.  
    Love Apple has an amazing selection of wine and is situated in an old adobe church, the lighting is perfect, the decor delightful and the service is right on par.
    The food is lovely.
    The salad with pomegranate, walnuts, chevre and agave vinaigrette was delicious as was the Mole Squash I ordered and the Rainbow Trout with lime creme fraiche my man ordered.  The cast iron apple pie sold out but the chocolate pecan and agave caramel tart was to die for.  
    This is a small, quaint and perfect for date spot.  Vegetarians and Meaties both welcome and accounted for on the menu

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