Testimonials

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"Just wanted to say thanks for the nice experience at your store early this month, and the great chili! We plan to try your recipes from your website. I added a review to trip advisor.com, so hopefully it will show up. Happy New Year!

John Swint, San Francisco, CA

"Hi there. I stopped in and bought chile in February when I was in Santa Fe on business. I also made several of my coworker into devotees of the wonderfulness of New Mexican chile. Recently my work had a Chili Cookoff and I made a simple vegetarian green chile stew that won an award. I’ve been asked to provide my recipe and I specify that I bought my chile from El Potrero Trading Post and I include your web address. I am planning another trip to NM in the beginning of April and will include a stop at El Potrero to restock my own supplies of chile along with several orders from my coworkers that I’ll be carrying home. This note is simply to tell you how much my friends and I here in Portland, Oregon enjoy your chiles. I look forward to my next visit with orders in hand. Thanks.

Noe Charbonneau

"We have been customers since 1982. This is the first time we have used your mail order service. We just wanted to say thank you for the really fast service and the wonderful chile!"

Jim and Vicki Barton, Westminster, CO

"We bought several different packages of dry chile from you when we visited you on December 29 and you gave us your recipe for Basic Red Chile Sauce. I made it a couple days ago with your chile. Wow! I have never tasted such good chile sauce. Thank you so much."

Sandy Abernathy

"We found El Potrero Trading Post a few years ago, while rediscovering the sights, sounds and tastes of New Mexico. We found a Saint Francis Santo that was perfect for our home and we sampled some of the best chile we have ever tasted. The people were delightful and we spent some time visiting and sharing the history and feel of New Mexico. When we are low on chile, I call El Potrero for a resupply. All the chili in my pantry comes from our friends in Chimayo, who really know what New Mexico flavor is. Our San Pasqual Santo watches over our kitchen and my cooking. Visit Chimayo for the Sacred Dirt at the Santuario and stop in to make some new friends at El Potrero. You will be glad you did."

Tony and Darcie Sims, Puyallup, WA

"I am one of the owners of Great Southwest Adventures, a tour company that offer site-seeing tours in northern New Mexico. El Potrero Trading Post has become one of our favorite stops on two of our tours because the shop offers seriously good chile powder at excellent prices. We have brought hundreds of people to the shop and they always enjoy their visit. The staff is exceedingly friendly and they know chile better than anyone we’ve met, plus they have a sense of humor. At a time when Santuario is changing, El Potrero is a beacon of old New Mexico while at the same time being a place where today’s visitors can connect with people who understand contemporary travelers."

"Make no mistake, El Potrero is the place to go for chile. They have no competition. We personally make the drive from Santa Fe just to fill our personal chile stocks and we eat copious amounts of El Potrero’s red chile."

Tom Ribe and Monique Schoustra

"We enjoy going to the Santuario to visit Fr. Roca. While there we always stop at Potrero Trading Post to buy chile. They are always very friendly and have become like a part of our family. We have been coming for 15 years and each time is more special. When it’s time to leave for home in Colorado, we have an empty hole in our heart."

Ida and Roger Heimbuck, Boulder, CO