NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:26:51 CDT Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu rec.food.restaurants:56470 rec.travel.air:477112 rec.travel.misc:107441 rec.travel.usa-canada:221001 Someone wrote: > Looking for dining recommendations for San Antonio/Riverwalk area. [snip] Absolutely the definitive down-home tex-mex on the riverwalk is Casa Rio. I've been eating there on nearly every visit for 30+ years. Tradiontial foods such as enchiladas, tamales, burritos and tacos all prepared and served by people who care about thier food. You can also take the trolley bus (I think it's .50 cents/ride) to the market (marcada) and eat at Mi Tierra Cafe and Bakery. It's another long time area favorite. But be prepared to wait... If you enjoyed these restaurants (or any other), please leave a comment at my website http://www.restaurantreviewer.com/. -- Greg
San Antonio, TX
San Antonio/Riverwalk Area
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 17:19:05 CDT Organization: RoadRunner Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu rec.food.restaurants:56499 rec.travel.air:477711 rec.travel.misc:107552 rec.travel.usa-canada:221383 My wife and I loved Boudros (especially the prickly pear Margarita) and Paesanos. Marts wrote: > Looking for dining recommendations for San Antonio/Riverwalk area. We are > staying on Riverwalk for 3 nights [without a rental car]. > Any recommendations are OK. Not interested in "high dollar" or "gourmet". > Looking for fun places, good drinks, munchies, appetizers. A great steak > might be good for one dinner. Interested in the full gamut from "loud and > hoppin" to "peaceful and romantic". > [We don't want to get home from our trip, and have people tell us "You > should have went to ...] > > Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. > Thank you in advance for your replies. > > MARTS > >
Marts wrote: > Looking for dining recommendations for San Antonio/Riverwalk area. We are > staying on Riverwalk for 3 nights [without a rental car]. > Any recommendations are OK. Not interested in "high dollar" or "gourmet". > Looking for fun places, good drinks, munchies, appetizers. A great steak > might be good for one dinner. Interested in the full gamut from "loud and > hoppin" to "peaceful and romantic". > [We don't want to get home from our trip, and have people tell us "You > should have went to ...] > > Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. > Thank you in advance for your replies. > > MARTS My favorite Riverwalk restaurants are the Fig Tree, Boudro's, and Paesano's. Mary
Steve W. wrote: > Marts wrote: > >>I'm sorry, but I forgot to ask. >> >>Is Texas Land & Cattle a good place to go for a steak? >> > > TLC and pretty consistently good, without breaking the bank. I'm > pretty partial to their smoked sirloin. Also, order the 'wedge > salad' as your salad (that comes with most meals). Blue cheese and > bacon bits covering a solid wedge of iceberg. I really like their smoked sirloin also. TLC is a TX chain that's reliable and inexpensive. Mary
User-Agent: Xnews/4.11.09 Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:41:16 -0500 Lines: 62 X-Trace: sv3-KXkYqI3IKh9KMN+p9uu2hdvD2dqDpNqjiBCWzDKSJyymjX8LNfjj+efLhzngd2Mu0OlcXlhy61ULE/+ X-Complaints-To: [email removed] X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu rec.food.restaurants:56480 rec.travel.air:477209 rec.travel.misc:107459 rec.travel.usa-canada:221062 "Christine" iterated..... > > As someone else pointed out taking the trolley to Market > Square... lots of inexpensive shopping (and some expensive > shopping). I've seen mixed reviews on La Margarita > Restaurant which is there, but we like it. > > Have a great time! > > Chris in Pearland, TX > > The trolley to Market Square/Mercado used to be free and if not is still greatly cheap and well worth the ride, but stops running early. Wandering around in the enclosed Market provides a semi-Mexico experience for those who do not travel there, all the standard souvenirs in the "Wou want it, we've got it" vein, but lesser flexibility in bargaining than in Mexico. La Margarita's owners and Mi Tierra's are the same, with LM being the more touristic, and Mi Tierra a bit more authentic (or at least authentic San Antonio), and the only waiting shoud be weekend evenings or when something big's in town (and they have cabrito, yougish goat, more lambish than goatish). Nothing at all wrong with the steak place mentioned, inexpensive and the smoked sirloin's unusual, and it's in the basement of a decent hotel, all hotels being overpriced in SAT, especially those on the Riverwalk. Up at the North end of the Riverwalk is the tiny "boutique" Havana Riverwalk Hotel, where the decor's a scream and the basement cigar/martini bar is dim and Bogartian. Old fashioned, I still breakfast and lunch at Schilo's Deli, upstairs from the walk, a business man's breakfast retreat with decent sandwiches and their own root beer (or a Shiner Bock). SAT is the "home" of several chains including la Quinta and Fuddrucker's whose convenient downtown store just off Alamo Plaza offers build your own burgers, for the young or the just too many enchiladas mood. Always remember, a Margarita made with a "mix" is not a Margarita, nor should they be served "frozen" or even on the rocks, simply for classicists 2 oz. "white" (not the expensive and less harsh gold or the fancy aged) tequila, traditionally Sauza, Herradura or Cuervo, although Cuervo of late has lost some of its aftertaste due presumably to tourist palates - maybe cheating with grain alky, or Sauza Hornitos**(my choice), one ounce of Triple Sec or Mexican "Controy" (ersatzCointreau), and about 1.5 ounces of fresh squeezed juice from Key, "White" or Mexican limes (available across the side street in Market Square produce vendors or at all local grocs, inc. HEB, Persians only in desperate emergency, over ice, shaken not stirred, poured into a chilled martini-type glass lightly rimmed with salt (although hard chargers say "Save the salt for the chips"). TMO