Diez y Seis at Market Square ★ 3.9
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.
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Fiesta Oyster Bake ★ 4.2
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.
Fiesta San Antonio ★ 4.3
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.
Barbacoa & Big Red Festival ★ 4.1
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.
San Antonio Tamales Festival ★ 4.0
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.
The San Antonio Margarita Festival ★ 3.9
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.