Coffee, plants, paint
and landscape.
The Trailhead is a live-work compound: the people who work here are part of what makes it feel like a neighborhood.
Cafecito
A family-run café in the glass-walled greenhouse at the front of the compound. Argentine, Armenian and Italian roots meet local ingredients: empanadas with chimichurri, Buenos Aires-style coffee, mate and weekend brunch on two garden patios. Open for breakfast and lunch; evenings for special events.
Hours Mon–Thu 8–3 · Fri–Sat 8–4 · Sun 9–3 · Evenings for special events
“I could eat Cafecito’s chimichurri sauce like soup.”
Pasatiempo, 2023
Serquis + Associates
Solange Serquis’s landscape architecture studio, designers of the Trailhead’s gardens and courtyards. Residential, public and educational landscapes across Santa Fe, with Haciendas awards for outdoor living and the Acequia Trail underpass among its work.
Chlorophyll Fine Houseplants
A “musical plant gallery” of rare and unusual houseplants and kokedama, run by Mara Lafferty and Daniel Murphy. Daniel composes the ambient music you hear in the shop. They also design and care for plant installations, including the greenery inside Cafecito.
“Think Brian Eno’s Music for Airports, but, like, for plants.”
Santa Fe Reporter, 2023
Deborah Allison Fine Art
Studio of realist oil painter Deborah Allison: portraits, figures, cafés and cityscapes shaped by a decade in Paris. The studio is open to visitors and is a stop on the Santa Fe Studio Tour.
“I build a relationship with my models and fall in love with them as I am putting their faces on the canvas.”
Deborah Allison
