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Los Alamos question - diamondcks
I'm going ot be up in your neck of the woods for most of next week for a field conference. Because the hotels wanted way more than my state per diem covers, I'll be shacking up with a friend up there. But I want to do a little something nice and take her out to eat one of the nights. What's your suggestion for a Saturday late lunch or weeknight dinner in Los Alamos?
Also, is there a decent non-Starbucks coffee shop in LA - I need my morning caffeine!!!
And third, what have temps been up on the HIll lately? I'll be outside Thurs - Sat and don't want to freeze or melt!
Thanks a zillion, zillion, million!
Also, is there a decent non-Starbucks coffee shop in LA - I need my morning caffeine!!!
And third, what have temps been up on the HIll lately? I'll be outside Thurs - Sat and don't want to freeze or melt!
Thanks a zillion, zillion, million!
Re: Los Alamos question - diamondcks
Hey,
Hopefully you will have a good week up here, if you want to get together for lunch let me know!
Temps - today we got up to about 80, no rain today though. We are still getting monsoon rains about half the time, but they are happening early afternoon. The mornings (when I get up) have been in the 50s, so not bad, but bring a coat. The lab's weather website tends to do a pretty good job: www.weather.lanl.gov.
There aren't a lot of coffee options, it depends on where you are staying. I like HotRocks (mostly because they have a little booth in the hospital, near my office), to get to the actual place go down Trinity (road you come into town on) and turn left on Diamond, veer right, you will have to go through a big intimidating looking booth area, but you don't need a badge. Go through that first stop light and turn right at the second, it is just on the road side of that building. Other options are one at Conoco hill - turn right on Diamond, and I think it is left at 3 stoplights down (I've never been there, DH mentioned it). The one that is most "in town" is in a cooking store (cookin' in style), go down Trinity and turn right on 15th, it will be next to Metzgers hardware on your left, kitty corner to the Bradbury science museum.
For mexican food my favorite is De Colorez, you will see it coming into town on the right before the airport. In town there is a new restraunt at the top of the Hilltop house (building strait ahead where the road into LA Ys - you'll see what I mean), it is called La Vista, they just opened this week, the owners used to have a different very popular restraunt, I ate there yesterday and it was good. If you know that she likes a specific type of food let me know, there are actually quite a few small restraunts (greek, japanese, chinese...). Sat late lunch might be a bit harder, I have a restraunt list at work, I'll try to remember to look.
Claire
Thanks for all the suggestions! As much as I've been to and stayed at all these hole-in-the-walls places in NM, I've mever actually spent much time in LA or White Rock. For work, we just drive up for meetings at the mines in the Jemez and usually my gang of friends meets up in SF or ABQ.
I would love to do lunch, but I'm going to be in the boonies all day long. It's the NM Geological Society Field COnference - we board vans and 4WDs at 7am and then don't get back to the Hill until 6pm. But the conferences are a blast - 100 geologists running around an area.
Although I figure, the conference will give me a reason to finally learn to navigate LA a bit so I can make it back up there later and roam around.
Well I'l be around for dinner too, just let me know.
Hve a fun week.
hav a great weekend!