SAN ANTONIO │ City and Metro Restaurant Thread
 

To drum up some activity for the San Antonio forum, I thought I would start a new thread detailing the additions (and subtractions) of restaurants in San Antonio. Most of what I'll post will deal with the urban core but suburban restaurant news is allowed.

Should this be a sticky thread?

If anyone has any more ideas on how to get the activity back, please pm with those ideas. :yes:

Barbaro opened in Monte Vista (2720 McCullough Ave.) last week. It's a neighborhood pizza joint with a bar. By the same restaurant group that owns the highly acclaimed The Monterey in Southtown (1127 S. St. Mary’s Street). They also plan to open Hot Joy in the fall, in Southtown (1014 S. Alamo Street).

One Lucky Duck will open its doors August 19th at the Pearl (200 E. Grayson St., Suite 109.). This will be the first 1LD to open outside of NYC.

One Lucky Duck is a restaurant that specializes in vegan, raw and organic food.

Perfect timing for Restaurant Week (August 17th-23rd). One of my favorite times of the year in San Antonio. The lunch and dinner are both good deals but the lunches really are an amazing one! You can check out the menus for the different places, lots of places downtown.

I hope the threads start to get active too, was really enjoying all the information. When it started to die off I decided to actually register :)

Just saw this on another site.

Site plan from the developers website shows proposed In-N-Out restaurant as part of the Town Center at Creekside development in New Braunfels.

http://i.imgur.com/IhOe5wg.jpg

In related news, I'm hearing rumors that In N Out will be within San Antonio by next year and the first restaurants will be in Leon Valley and at The Rim. :tup:

What about San Antonio are there any In-N- Out's here?

Not yet. Store are planned for 2014 and initial locations look to be The Rim, Leon Valley and Alamo Ranch.

Mmmmm... parking lots and big box stores. Goodbye, Mom & Pop.

A new food and entertainment complex is opening on the near east side. To be called Burleson Yard. There will be a main house bbq joint. In the backyard: outdoor seating, a bar, ping pong court, concrete chess tables, bocce ball court, food trucks and a residential component.



This is just up the street from Boneshakers and the soon to be built Alamo Beer brewery and restaurant.

Looks awesome! I've always loved that building. Are those new lofts next door as well I see?

That looks like that'll be quite the destination.

A new restaurant called Mixtli will be opening up on McCullough Ave and requires you to buy tickets prior instead of reservations or just going there.

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/food/20...rs-techniques/
http://restaurantmixtli.com/

Barraca - paella and tapas bar
 

There's another restaurant choice in Blue Star

https://www.facebook.com/Barracatx
from the SA Current

From a presentation at the Dignowity Hill Neighborhood Association meeting a few months back, the developer of Burleson Yard is going to first be a food truck court and beverage place with plans for some apartment units and a restaurant (in the older building) at a later date. He said 2015 at the time, but was still doing some preliminary planning. Go East side!

The CIA bakery will close this year. Their last day is Dec 20th.

Also closing is Boneshakers (near the Hays St bridge). Their last day is the end of the year.

The CIA Bakery is closing because the CIA needs to the space to expand their school.

Yep, that's what they are saying. I was trying to figure out what that means for the pastry students since it's my understanding they were going to take baking space on the second floor. Maybe they move those to where the store is? Either way, the bakery was always a favorite stop of ours when we came to town; so we're bummed.

Also bummed about Boneshakers. Cool little bar for local brews, also a good happy hour and decent pizza. The times we were there, only a few more folks were around. From what I understand there was a bike culture that supported them when they were south and you would think it would follow with the bridge nearby and all the things happening on Broadway, but I guess they were hidden or east side development was moving too slow.

We'll be in town at least once more before year's end and will try to visit both places before they go.

It looks like In 'n Out is coming to San Antonio. Word is they've bought or leased out a site at 29 NE Interstate 410 Loop. They will bulldoze the TGI Friday's that is currently there. :tup:

Edit: The TGIFriday's is still operating but will be demolished. My mistake.

Sweet! I live a 1/2 mile from that site. Looking forward to it.

It's been confirmed.

The employees didn't even know they were moving! That sucks. But I'm excited to see what the big deal is about In-n-Out.

SoBro Pizza Co. and Tacos & Tequila going into the Mosaic apartments

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/downtow...nt/#21197101=0

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/downtow...rants/tnt1.jpg

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/downtow...rants/tnt2.jpg

Awesome! TNT is a good place. I've been to the one in downtown Austin.

This is a map of the four In-N-Out locations planned for San Antonio and the metro area so far. The far left marker is the Culebra location which will open in November.

Do we know what demographic or market information they base their locations around? I'm just curious why they chose those four areas.

More importantly, what the hell is Midlake airport??:shrug:

It looks like two In-N-Out restaurants will be under construction over the summer and both will open in November.

Some images of the food that will be served at Earth Burger. :)

50 Best Tacos in America (Slideshow)

http://www.thedailymeal.com/50-best-...deshow?slide=3

Starfish in Southtown

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/downtow.../06/STAND1.jpg

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/downtow...on/#23842101=0

Demolition of building is underway for mixed-use project that will include In-N-Out. Projected opening of restaurant is sometime in October.

It either has no parking lot or a huge parking lot. I'm hoping for no parking lot. People need to learn how to walk again.

It'll have no parking. The only parking will be the underpass to ithe west and the small parking lots to the west and south.

Then I love it!

Frank Finds a Home in Southtown Church
 

Looks like another Austin restaurant is testing the SA waters:
http://therivardreport.com/former-so...rank-location/

Good to see the old building getting a new tenant.

Looking forward to this
 

We need more delis in SA!!!!

Dignowity Meats On Houston St., a deli specializing in smoked meats and gourmet sandwiches, is slated to open on the city’s Eastside on Nov. 15.

http://therivardreport.com/new-deli-...ignowity-hill/

Luvs me a good deli. :cheers:

Glad to see local folks setting up shop. Wish a local spot would have jumped on the Alamo Methodist spot instead of an Austin one-off, but I guess beggars can't be choosers. I just hope Frank includes local or neutral decor instead of decorating with "Austin" decor....that always drives me nuts.

I found this bit of information concerning In-N-Out planned for the corner of 281 and TPC Parkway.

MARGARITAVILLE AND THE YARDHOUSE PLANNED FOR RIVERCENTER MALL

The Yardhouse and Margaritaville are both planned for The Shops at Rivercenter, as it currently undergoes a major redevelopment including the name change from Rivercenter Mall.

The two restaurants will occupy space on the west side of the Riverwalk lagoon.

This will be the second Yardhouse in San Antonio and the first Margaritaville.

MARGARITAVILLE AT RIVERCENTER OPENING IN SPRING 2015

It is now confirmed that Margaritaville will open a location in Rivercenter Mall on the west side of the lagoon across from Fogo de Chao.

There is an official website and job postings for the new downtown restaurant.