Food festivals in San Antonio worth planning a trip around, by month.
Food festivals in San Antonio worth planning a trip around, by month.
Fiesta Oyster Bake has shucked Gulf oysters on the St Mary's University campus for over a century, a two-day Fiesta music-and-food festival run by the alumni association where hundreds of thousands of oysters disappear.
Focus: Gulf oysters and Fiesta food booths
Fiesta San Antonio is the city's eleven-day spring celebration of more than a hundred events, where food booths across town serve anticuchos, chicken-on-a-stick, gorditas, and turkey legs, the civic high point of the food calendar.
Focus: Tex-Mex food booths and anticuchos citywide
The Barbacoa & Big Red Festival celebrates San Antonio's signature weekend combo at the Freeman Coliseum grounds, a two-day October gathering of barbacoa vendors, Big Red, music, and a barbacoa-themed 5K.
Focus: Barbacoa and Big Red soda, the SA combo
The San Antonio Tamales Festival gathers local tamaleros each December for the holiday masa-and-pork tradition that defines a San Antonio Christmas, with dozens of vendors competing for the best tamal.
Focus: Tamales from local tamaleros
The San Antonio Margarita Festival pits local bars and restaurants against each other for the best margarita in town, with each ticket including ten samples to taste and vote on, a one-day late-March competition.
Focus: Margaritas from local bars and restaurants
The Sazón Latin Food Festival is a family-friendly celebration of Latin American food and music, with vendors representing Caribbean, Central, and South American flavours alongside the city's Mexican base.
Focus: Latin American food and music
Culinaria's Tasting Texas Wine + Food Festival is the city's flagship culinary event, a four-day late-October run of chef dinners, wine tastings, and grand tastings staged by the Culinaria nonprofit across San Antonio.
Focus: Texas wine, chefs, and tastings
The Seven Seas Food Festival runs across spring at SeaWorld San Antonio, with food stalls themed to the world's coasts serving global street food and seafood on select weekends from late March into May.
Focus: Global street food and coastal dishes
San Antonio Flavor, the San Antonio Current's tasting event, gathers more than thirty of the city's favourite restaurants for one evening of bites paired with Texas spirits, beer and wine.
Focus: Bites from 30+ local restaurants
Diez y Seis de Septiembre fills Historic Market Square each September with Mexican independence celebrations, food vendors, mariachis, and pan dulce, the West Side's biggest free food-and-culture weekend.
Focus: Mexican food and pan dulce at El Mercado