>Someone wrote: >: I am going on to the Gulf Coast to Corpus Christi and then back to >: San Antonio for vacation in July and was wanting the names of some >: good restaurants. Preferably seafood and Texmex in both cities, but >: other good types welcome. Either posts or email excepted. Thanks ; ) I just returned from San Antonio and, well...don't expect too much and you won't be disappointed. SA is a perfect town for a convention. The Riverwalk is an endless string of awful to mediocre restaurants, not inexpensive either. You can expect to see your Olive Grden, your Tony Roma's, your Hard Rock Cafe and any number of other lowest common denominator joints. The best of the bunch is Boudros...on the Riverwalk. Don't expect good service, hot food, or fresh food either. It is, as can be expected, geared toward profit maximization...very average. Mexican food in SA was suprisingly bad. La Margarita, Mi Tierras, and Pico de Gallo are all owned by the same owner. They are, to be blunt, purely and simply *awful*. Mi Tierras was the worst, greasy, touristy mexican garbage imaginable. The other two where equally disgusting. I guess if you are a Mexican with culinary talent, you move to NY or Chicago..where I've had mexican food far superior to any of these huge, mass production, swill houses. One step up is La Fogata..not great, but palatable at least. "Palatable" being the best one can expect in Texas. Even The Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas, Texas' best restaurant, is pretty mediocre. The Mansion del Rio is probably the best hotel in SA. While hotel food is usually something I avoid, in SA it was a welcome, honest attempt at creativity. OK for lunch. The best restaurants in SA? Mortons of Chicago Ruth's Chris Steakhouse If you want authentic interior mexican cooking, there is a little diner in Austin called Curra's Grill. Very interesting and honest.. not the disgusting, velveeta-laden, grease platters they serve in San Antonio. And very inexpensive, too. good luck --spencer
San Antonio, TX