by Susan | Dec 21, 2018 | food & drink, San Antonio insider
At every Tex-Mex restaurant in San Antonio you’ll be greeted with a basket of tortilla chips (pronounce it: tour-TEE-ah) and a bowl of salsa. Salsa just means “sauce” in Spanish. Every country has their own: piri-piri in Peru, chimichurri in...
by Susan | Nov 28, 2018 | food & drink, San Antonio insider
They still call it the “great tamale incident.” In !976, President Gerald Ford, at a reception at the Alamo, grabbed a tamale off a plate and started eating it, shuck and all. An alert hostess from the Daughters of the Republic of Texas saw was was about...
by Susan | Nov 22, 2018 | food & drink, San Antonio insider
Everyone in San Antonio has a favorite place for breakfast tacos, but, quite frankly, there’s no such thing as a bad breakfast taco in San Antonio. (Now Austin — that’s another story. They boast that theirs are the best, but what do they know about...
by Susan | Nov 18, 2018 | food & drink, San Antonio insider
In Mexican cuisine, pico de gallo (pronounce it as PEEK-o -day-GUY-o), literally beak of rooster, also called salsa fresca, is made from chopped tomato, onion, coriander leaves (we love our cilantro!), fresh serranos (jalapeños or habaneros are used as alternatives),...
by Susan | Feb 24, 2017 | food & drink, San Antonio insider
Earlier we wrote about the downtown brew pubs in San Antonio. Here is a selection of places to get interesting beer: The Friendly Spot is at 130 S. Alamo at the intersection with Cedar, at the edge of the King William Historic District in what we call Southtown. They...
by Susan | Jan 30, 2017 | food & drink, history, music, San Antonio insider, Sightseeing
On Saturday you’ll be walking through the historic King William area. To give some historical context to your walk you can pick up a brochure for the King William walking tour (or download it here.) If you have time to linger, there are two historic houses you...
