Long-time realtor Santa Fe Properties is listing for sale a nearly 4,600 square foot, two-story building that for years served as a popular Spanish food restaurant.
Located at 213 Washington Avenue in downtown Santa Fe, in an area of mostly one-story historic structures, the building includes a large dining and bar space, modern kitchen, performance stage, and custom-built wine storage room.
The structure also includes office space on its second floor.
For well over two decades, the building housed El Meson Restaurant, which specialized in a wide selection of cold and hot tapas, paella, and entrees. The restaurant closed its doors in the fall of 2021.
In earlier decades the structure, which was built in 1960 and renovated in 1998, was the home to the Delores Fast Food Restaurant.
As an illustration of how much property values in downtown Santa Fe have increased in recent years, the same building that was listed for sale in 1996 for $845,000, today has an asking price of $2.2 million.
Santa Fe Properties was launched in the mid-1980s, with offices located in a more than century-old former home at 1000 Paseo de Peralta in downtown Santa Fe.
By Garry Boulard
