Fideo is a Tex-Mex comfort dish of thin vermicelli noodles toasted golden, then simmered in a tomato-and-chile broth with onion and garlic until soft. Served soupy as a sopa de fideo or drier as a side, it is a homestyle staple of San Antonio Mexican-American kitchens.
Fideo came to Mexico via Spanish and earlier Arab noodle traditions and settled into Mexican-American home cooking across south Texas. In San Antonio it is the kind of everyday dish more often eaten at home than ordered out, though family-run Tex-Mex rooms keep it on the menu as a side or a light soup, a quiet emblem of the city's home-kitchen heritage.
3 editor picks for Fideo in San Antonio, ranked by editorial score. All San Antonio signature dishes · Fideo across every city.
La Fonda on Main ★ 4.2
tobin-hill · 2415 N Main Ave, San Antonio, TX 78212
La Fonda on Main is the oldest continuously operating Mexican restaurant in San Antonio, opened by sisters Virginia Berry and Nannie Randall in 1932.
El Mirasol ★ 4.0
north-side · 10003 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX 78231
El Mirasol is a north-side Mexican kitchen where the chiles rellenos and enchiladas are the orders to make and the weekday lunch specials are the value play.
Blanco Cafe ★ 3.9
tobin-hill · 1720 Blanco Rd, San Antonio, TX 78212
Blanco Cafe is a cash-friendly Tobin Hill Tex-Mex counter where the carne guisada plate, enchiladas and chalupas come cheap to a loyal early-lunch crowd.