Ramah
No doubt Ramah is the most mouth-watering community in the Gallup-McKinley County School District.
Don't expect French cuisine in this tiny town (under 500 people). But how about a Swiss restaurant and bakery? Seriously. It's here, in the hinterlands of New Mexico—and The Enchanted Swiss has everything your sweet tooth might crave, including pies, cookies, bread, and other tasty food, such as pizza and sandwiches.
Ramah (pronounced RAY-mah) sits in a lush valley rimmed with sandstone cliffs, about 30 miles southeast of Gallup. Two years ago, it made The Frommer’s list of The Top 10 Up and Coming Destinations For 2006. The editors cited “the diverse culture and history surrounded by open prairies and pink buttes…,” “mix of ancestral roots from Spanish settlers to Texan bean farmers…,” and a pride for heritage that “seems to radiate everywhere.”
The editors also lavished praise on the Ramah Farmers Market, where, every weekend, locally-grown “lettuce, spinach, beets, onions, and carrots sit on tables and in bins amid the honey-like scent of flowers,” visitors enjoy hazelnut cookies and raspberry tarts, and “live guitar music lilts out across irrigated fields where horses and cattle graze.”
If you’d like to get away from the market crowds, take a friend and head to Ramah Lake for some excellent trout fishing.
Ramah? Yummo!