Sandia Peak Tramway and High Finance Restaurant

Our day in Albuquerque was rounded off by a trip to the top of Sandia Peak on the Sandia Peak Tramway, followed by dinner at High Finance Restaurant.  "Sandia" means "watermelon" in Spanish, and supposedly the Spanish were inspired to name the Sandia Mountains because of their reddish colour.  Sandia Peak is at 10,378 feet above sea level: 

 
You travel up there in little tram cars on a cable system.  A few ladies in our group were very scared of heights, and shut their eyes the whole way up.  I am scared of heights, but because we were encased in our own little bubbles, the trip up to Sandia Peak didn't bother me at all, and I enjoyed the view.  Here I am - I made it:

 

Our tour group sat down together at reserved tables - here is our table (Margaret and Dennis, Allan and Julie, Tim and I):

 

We chose our meals from a set three course menu:

For entrée (or appetizer, depending on where you come from), I chose the soup (yes Kayte, I really enjoyed your American spicy soups!):

 
I have no recollection of what type of soup this was, except that it was spicy and good. 

For main, I chose the grilled salmon with soy citrus glaze on rice with vegetables:

 
As you can see, the vegetables were a little sad, but the salmon itself was really good, and the glaze perfectly complemented it.

The star of the show was the dessert - a peanut butter/chocolate mousse style delight, not unlike a Snickers bar in flavour:

After a lovely dinner, we all rolled back down the mountain - ha, ha, no, we got back into the tram cars and enjoyed the sunset over the Sandia Mountains:

Our Sandia Peak experience was the perfect end to a perfect day.

Sandia Peak Tramway

30 Tramway Road NE
Albuquerque, NM

United States

Ph: +1 505 856 7325

 

High Finance Restaurant

Sandia Peak

Albuquerque, NM

United States

Ph: +1 505 243 9742