Cowgirl Bar & Grill

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The Cowgirl BBQ is a pretty darn famous restaurant on Guadalupe Street in Santa Fe, New Mexico. You may have read about it in the New York Times (great margaritas), The Wall Street Journal (best Nachos), Cowboys and Indians Magazine (One of the Best BBQ joints in the West), or maybe youve seen the Cowgirl on Rachel Rays Forty Dollars a Day TV show. And of course the locals just love the Cowgirl as evidenced by year after year of Best of Santa Fe awards from the Santa Fe Reporters readers poll.
Stop by and see for yourself at 319 S. Guadalupe St, or get yourself some authentic Cowgirl memorabilia here on our website.
The Cowgirl BBQ

Many years ago, when the cattle roamed free and Cowpokes and Cowgirls rode the range, a sassy young Cowgirl figured out that she could have as much fun smokin meats and baking fine confections as she could bustin broncs and rounding up outlaws. So she pulled into the fine bustling city of Santa Fe and noticed that nobody in town was making Barbeque the way she learned out on the range. She built herself a Texas-style barbecue pit and soon enough the sweet and pungent scent of mesquite smoke was wafting down Guadalupe street and within no time at all folks from far and near were lining up for heaping portions of tender mesquite-smoked brisket, ribs and chicken. Never one to sit on her laurels, our intrepid Cowgirl figured out that all those folks chowing down on her now-famous BBQ need something to wash it all down with. Remembering a long-forgotten recipe from the fabled beaches of Mexico, she began making the now-legendary Frozen Margarita and the rest, as we say, is History. Before you could say Tequila! the musicians were out playing on the Cowgirl Patio and the party was in full swing.