Ojo Caliente Restaurant and Hotel

I believe they are struggling with staffing. The menu was very abbreviated and quality was not what we had the last time we were there a year ago .

1 of 2 two places to eat at the Ojo Caliente resort. Excellent food and service. Very good and you are pretty much captive. Had the New York Strip, wine, soup, and salad. All very good and tasty. Service was great. It will be remembered.

Incredible service and outstanding meal. We were fortunate to have Ivan as our waiter. He was nothing short of awesome. Enjoyed the Blue Corn Muffins as well as both our entrees. Bison Short ribs and their Tamales!

Excellent service, Annie was great. The food was good, the place was lively and had a good selection of wine and beer. Overall a good experience for dining onsite at the spa.

Staff was friendly and service was terrific. The salads from the local garden were so good. I enjoyed the chili relleno with quinoa tamal and my husbands short rib with potatoes was very tender. We also enjoyed the breakfast burrito the next day, it was also very good and huge. Overall I would definitely go back.

Food is ok. For a Spa of the caliber of OJO, and the fact you have one option (unless you are willing to drive) food should be exceptional. There was a time it was exceptional...but no longer. Lunch is pretty good, dinner was ok. I miss the days when it was with a drive just for the food.

Food was great, we had the salmon, trout, chile relleno, Cesar salad ... all excellent . Fresh! Staff lovely

Good food, they lack drink options. Service was good even though they were experiencing an outage of the system.
Food was delicious.

We were there on a Friday night and things were a bit chaotic. We got seated promptly and our server was nice, but busy. The appetizer came out quickly, followed in rapid succession by our entrees, except for my salad, which came out about halfway through the meal, and I was too full to eat much of it. Two different servers tried to bring us food that wasn't ours. The food was delicious. The service was good except for the missing birthday dessert that I had ordered it in advance, online, when I made the reservation. Celebrating my daughter's 50th bd! I went to the host and asked about it, he said 'yes, you'll get the birthday dessert.' But it never came. Our server cleared our table, brought the check and never asked if we cared for dessert. Obviously, she didn't get the memo, lol. We were not upset about it, as we were full and happy. It just would have been a nice touch. I have eaten here before, about 10 years ago. I remember it being a very pleasant experience, and I hope to enjoy it again.

Terrible. After a long, hot day in the springs, we just wanted a small bite to eat. After viewing the menu and how expensive everything was and also being told there was a 30 minute wait for a table for two, we decided to order to go at the bar. Ordered two Arnold Palmers and truffle fries. $24!!! I wish I would have opened the box before getting in the car and on the road… the fries were not even fully cooked! They were soggy, not even cooked fries. Extremely disappointed.

The 2 star review is mostly based on our experience in the restaurant (except our server Zack was excellent) it was mostly the vibe of the hostess and what seemed to be the managers attitude (and the OPEN TABLE reservation system.)

When you spend over $1000 for a room, food, and spa services for a day you should automatically have a restaurant reservation offered at your arrival since there are no other options around. By the time we checked in there were no reservations available and we were initially told just get there before 8:45 to eat by front desk check in, at 7:30 they were “not sure they could get us in” even though there were tons of available tables throughout the night from 7:30-9 they did end up seating us by the door as an afterthought. We were uncertain we would even get to eat. After they sat us the server Zack was great, the portions are generous, the prices are decent not too expensive for what you get, the food tasted mostly good.

DO NOT ORDER THE CHILE RELLENO if you want an authentic NM dish, they have Butchered this cultural dish (not deep fried chile and the “tamal” is just quinoa and corn in corn husk and the seasoning was not great. We did not eat any of it, but no one noticed we did not enjoy it leaving the whole thing on the plate and I didn’t bother to tell the server because there was nothing essentially “wrong with it” other than the fact it was not at all what we expected. I felt like our cultural food was disrespected by this dish and they should call it something else…

The room stay was great, although a bit overpriced at $600+ for one night with a tub but if you are willing to pay for privacy that part was worth it. Take advantage of the private pool if you do book a room it is extra hot and nice atmosphere. They say of our check out was my moms birthday so we invited her to meet us to have a special day, but right as she arrived at there was lightening so went to back to the restaurant for coffee lunch and dessert but because Everyone had the same idea to wait out the storm all the 4 tops were taken there was one 3 top in the corner that we got sat at by the hostess and when the 4th person (my husband got there from the bathroom) arrived what I assume was the manger was extremely rude and made a scene that we couldn’t sit in the corner at that 3 top and that the person that sat us shouldn’t have sat us and told us we could go back to the lobby to wait for a 4 top or go to the bar where everything was also full.

Do not order a cappuccino here they do not know how to make them, very watery no foam.

In any case this experience could have been stellar if the host staff was friendlier and restaurant management improved. On the plus side they have amazing complimentary cornbread they provide with dinner. For the cost of the spa and lodging the restaurant should improve their customer service and train all their people on how to make a cappuccino.

Bottom line, I recommend you make sure to bring your own food if you stay in the rooms because it’s uncertain you will get a seat at the restaurant and there’s no where else in miles to eat. (I hate OPENTABLE personally)
Ojo, please prioritize making sure people who stay there know they HAVE TO MAKE a reservation to not be treated like a second class citizen.
There is one older man that works in the spa area who went out of his way to get us locket keys (he was great, good job on customer service) I may go to ojo in ojo caliente again because it is better than Ojo Santa Fe but I’ll most likely skip the restaurant next time.
Go to El Paragua in Espanola if you can for a great customer service and authentic NM food experience.

Paid $180 for dinner for two and was extremely disappointed. Steak was cooked to a proper medium but was tough. Mussels appetizer was not very hot, the mussels on top not were kinda lukewarm at best. My pork chop dish au gratin potatoes were dry. Finally the creme brulee was like soup, zero custard firmness. We sent that one back as it was so laughably bad.... I mean how do you mess up creme brulee? I'm not sure who was in charge of the kitchen on 05/08 for dinner service but it was definitely someone who doesn't care about quality before sending stuff out.

Waited 50+ min for a breakfast burrito…coffee was never refilled, starting topping it up myself from the server station. Go to the cafe down the road…

I had my mind made up before arriving because I'd checked out the dinner menu online. But then the soup of the day, chicken pozole, which wasn't listed online, ruled. I do not regret my decision. It was a little spicy & delicious. Also I loved the blue corn muffins. The mango sorbet with some fresh strawberries & blueberries was quite a big portion but so tasty I managed to eat every last bite. I'm looking forward to my next dinner here!

I cannot understand why there are so low ratings. We were 3 friends and were all very pleased about dinner. I lived in Italy and know what good food is. So enjoy it, they are really serving great food.