19 editor picks in San Antonio.
San Antonio's street food is overwhelmingly Mexican and Tejano, sold from trucks, fruterias and counters across the city. Tacos El Regio on the St Mary's Strip is a late-night taco fixture, while the fruterias such as Las Nieves Fruit Cups and More on the north side serve fruit cups, chamoy and aguas frescas. Tellez Tamales and Barbacoa on the west side carries the weekend barbacoa tradition.
19 street food places in San Antonio we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in San Antonio · Street Food across every city.
Try Late-night street tacos al pastor
Tacos El Regio is a post-bar institution on the St Mary's strip; order the al pastor off the trompo and load up at the salsa bar for late-night street tacos.
Try Loaded chamoy raspas
Chamoy City Limits turns the traditional raspa into a maximalist treat, piling shaved ice with chamoy, fresh fruit, and gummies, a San Antonio shaved-ice.
Try Fruit cups, raspas and elotes
Las Nieves is a established fruit-cup and raspa stand on West Hildebrand, serving cold fruit cups loaded with lime, tajin, and chamoy plus elotes and raspas.
Try Mangonadas and fruit cups
Fruteria Los Trejo on Eckhert Road serves mangonadas, fruit cups, and shaved ice in the Mexican fruteria tradition, a refreshing snack stop that has grown.
Try Mesquite-grilled pollo asado
Pollos Asados Los Norteños on the east side grills whole chickens over mesquite; order one with grilled onions and tortillas, and go early as the queue grows.
Try Weekend barbacoa and tamales
Tellez Tamales & Barbacoa is a West Side weekend ritual, where you buy barbacoa by the pound and tamales by the dozen to take home, paired with a Big Red.
Try The original puffy taco
Ray's Drive Inn on the West Side has claimed the original puffy taco since 1956, the deep-fried puffed-masa shell that San Antonio gave the world.
Try Puffy tacos
Henry's Puffy Tacos on the West Side is the Lopez family counter for the namesake puffy taco, served hot and crisp with rice and beans; eat it before it sits.
Try Chorizo-and-egg puffy tacos
El Milagrito Cafe on East Woodlawn is the oldest restaurant on the St Mary's Strip, with a chorizo-and-egg puffy taco that has built a quiet cult following.
Try Michoacán-style carnitas tacos
Carnitas Don Raúl on West Jones is a husband-and-wife counter for Michoacán-style carnitas, rooted in a 1991 Morelia family operation and featured on Netflix.
Try El Gigante breakfast taco
Rolando's Super Tacos on West Hildebrand built its name on El Gigante, an enormous breakfast taco with your pick of five fillings, a stomach-test of a taco.
Try Jerk chicken from a walk-up window
Chef Nicola Blaque's Jerk Shack began as a walk-up window with picnic tables, serving Jamaican jerk chicken and curry goat that earned a Bib Gourmand nod.
Try Bean-and-cheese and carne guisada tacos
Garcia's Mexican Food on the West Side is a small, cash-friendly counter where the carne guisada taco on a fresh flour tortilla is the early-breakfast order.
Try Mexican street antojitos and tacos
Chef Johnny Hernandez's La Gloria at the Pearl plates the street antojitos of interior Mexico, from tacos and sopes to ceviche and elotes, on a River Walk.
Try 24-hour Tex-Mex and pan dulce
Mi Tierra at Market Square runs around the clock, so a 3am plate of enchiladas is a local rite; grab conchas from the front panaderia on the way out.
Try Mangonadas, aguas frescas and big fruit cups
Fruteria La Mission across from the Mission Drive-In is a South Side fruteria for mangonadas, aguas frescas and large fruit cups loaded with chamoy and tajin.
Try Barbacoa and Big Red
Tommy's Restaurant on the north side is the spot for the local ritual of barbacoa with a Big Red; weekend mornings draw the longest lines for it.
Try Breakfast tacos and conchas
La Panaderia's downtown bakery is a walkable River Walk stop for breakfast tacos and conchas; pair one with a cafe con leche to start the morning.
Try Taco-and-donut combo
The Original Donut Shop on Fredericksburg Road pairs fresh donuts with breakfast tacos, a quintessentially San Antonio combination best understood by eating.
