Someone wrote: >I too will be in San Antonio soon , but Iwould like to know about some of the >off the beaten tourist path little hole in the walls that serve great mexican >food or barbeque. All the places I remember from my earlier days there are >long gone. > >For information on the downtown area restaurants I found some information thru >gopher to the Travel Information Library University of Manitoba > >thanks for any hints >[email removed] The Mexican restaurant closest to what you describe is probably La Calesa, a restaurant of the Mexican (as opposed to TexMex, or the blending of Mexican and Anglo/German cooking, cooking common to Texas) school that is run by a family who settled here a few years ago. It is the only restaurant I know of that has a few Yucatecan dishes, and all of what they offer has a patina of authenticity that other restaurants lack. It is on Hildebrand a door or two east of Broadway. As for barbecue, that is a little harder -- there are many many simple convincing genuine barbecue places, but none is clearly better than others. Maybe Bob's on Ribsby, but it is so basic that you may find it more than you bargained for. Their location on Fredericksburg Road has a few more amenities, but is kind of far from downtown.
San Antonio, TX