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German heritage runs through San Antonio's history, and one downtown room keeps that table set. Schilo's, a delicatessen operating downtown for generations, still serves split pea soup, house root beer and German-Texan plates that connect the city to its Hill Country settler roots.
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Order Split-pea soup, the Reuben and the house root beer.
Schilo's is a German-Texan deli downtown where the house-brewed root beer is the thing to order alongside the split-pea soup and the Reuben; cash or card.
Try Split-pea soup and a sandwich
Schilo's, the city's oldest restaurant, serves a bowl of its famous split-pea soup and a hearty sandwich downtown for a modest sum, a 1917 German-Texan deli.
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