In a Sedona motel restaurant, Mexican flavors flourish - mexican dishes in restaurants

SEDONA, Ariz. -
The motel, or even the motel that calls itself a hotel, is known for its restaurants. So first-
Time tourists come here at the Elote Cafehere, and if their hearts sink a bit in the black tar area of the Kings Ransom hotel, they can't blame them.
The ramp from the parking lot to the normal entrance to the restaurant is covered with indoor/outdoor carpets and goes by the kids in the pool snoring and waving water noodles, which is not helpful.
But Sedona is an uncoordinated city.
Here, the rugged red rocks caught fire in the sunset, and the SUVs came back along the town's thoroughfare --mall-lined roads.
Pilgrims of the new era mingle with families wearing capri pants on holidays.
The small city of 15,000 has a spectacular trail after trail.
But good luck, find basic hiking gear in the store
Turquoise cuffs, pastel-
Colorful denim shirts and coffee cups shaped like barrel cactus.
At the Ilot cafe, you will find more out of coordination.
In this festive and humble room you will find creative spins on traditional Mexican dishes, for example, chocolate tamales filled with dried cherries, tacos paired with velvet-like blue cheese with braised beef short ribs.
You will find that the food at moderate prices is great (
Rare things in Sedona)
The staff were very friendly and not welcomed by a large number of tourists.
You will find Jeff smidstad.
Former chef-
The owner of the popular Los Sombreros in the Phoenix area was in him and his then-wife split up.
He made another appearance here in the fall of 2007. The 80-
There was a series of failed restaurants in front of the seating room.
Shortly after Smedstad signed the contract, "someone
"Send it to me from Sedona and tell me what a serious mistake I made," he said with a smile . ".
Smedstad, like celebrity chef Rick Bayless, has adopted traditional Mexican recipes and updated them with great results.
However, before he started playing traditional games, Smedstad traveled around the country for 15 years and got Mexican food.
Oaxaca is his main source of inspiration, he studied at the school of cookbook book author Suzanne trilling, but now he says his cooking is PanMexican.
As he said, his style has also become "more like Jeffery", especially in Sedona, where he finds diners willing to try.
The restaurant with the same name is a good example.
ELOT, a popular street snack in Mexico, is a grilled corn spread on a stick with cheese, chili sauce and mayonnaise or lime juice.
Smedstad remade it into an addictive dipping sauce, a luxurious, spicy corn soup.
Smedstad receives requests for recipes every night.
"In that bowl of corn, people think of something," he said . ".
A simple bowl of corn, like his lamb, adobo, put Smedstad on the map in Phoenix.
You will find that dish here, as well as other dishes from Los Sombreros, but the form is updated.
He made the seasoning of pork more complicated, adding aioli to the seafood tortillas (
Inspiration for a tour of Granada, Spain)
Mix the corn salsa with the grilled apper fish.
Smedstad's innovative spirit continues to the bar, where his inspired bartender makes clever spins on margar Tower, such as mixing in his own homemade hibiscusInfused with tequila.
During the course of four nights, I had a pleasant tasting of most of margar Tower wine and about a third menu.
My husband and I tried to get ourselves somewhere else, but we went back to ELOT every night.
We are not the only ones.
A Cleveland couple came three nights in a row, and a man in Tampa came two nights in a row.
However, we became the record holder for eating there at most nights in a row.
They even gave us the nickname Las Journalistas.
Finally, eating inspired food in the motel's restaurant is not at all uncoordinated.
Feel completely right.
ELOT cafe, Highway 771 179, Sedona, arritz. , 928-203-0105, www. elotecafe. com.