San Antonio : Food Tour with Tacos, BBQ & Tex-Mex Classics
Explore San Antonio’s vibrant food culture on a Downtown guided walking tour. Taste authentic Tex-Mex favorites, family-owned specialties, and creative bites while dis...
CuisineBrunch
Price$$
Neighborhoodwest-side
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Why locals love it: A West Side weekend ritual that tourists never reach, where families queue for barbacoa by the pound before Sunday breakfast.
Tip: Come Saturday or Sunday morning for the pit barbacoa and a dozen tamales. This is how San Antonio families eat the weekend.
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Address: 1737 S General McMullen Dr, San Antonio, TX 78237
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Shotgun House Coffee Roasters ★ 4.2
Shotgun House Coffee Roasters is a roastery in a converted West Side sewing factory; follow signs to Warehouse 5 for single-origin filter and bagged roast.
Why locals love it: A roastery hidden inside a converted West Side sewing factory, with no street presence and some of the city's best single-origin coffee.
Tip: Follow the signs into Warehouse 5 to find it. Order the single-origin filter and buy a bag of the house roast.
Barrio Barista ★ 4.0
Barrio Barista is a west side cafe doing horchata lattes and cafe de olla that the third-wave coffee crowd often overlooks for the pearl spots.
Why locals love it: A West Side cafe doing horchata lattes and cafe de olla that the third-wave coffee crowd often overlooks for the Pearl spots.
Tip: The horchata latte and cafe de olla give the coffee a local accent. A West Side cafe worth the detour.
More hidden gems in San Antonio
Shotgun House Coffee Roasters ★ 4.2
Shotgun House Coffee Roasters is a roastery in a converted West Side sewing factory; follow signs to Warehouse 5 for single-origin filter and bagged roast.
Why locals love it: A roastery hidden inside a converted West Side sewing factory, with no street presence and some of the city's best single-origin coffee.
Tip: Follow the signs into Warehouse 5 to find it. Order the single-origin filter and buy a bag of the house roast.
Barrio Barista ★ 4.0
Barrio Barista is a west side cafe doing horchata lattes and cafe de olla that the third-wave coffee crowd often overlooks for the pearl spots.
Why locals love it: A West Side cafe doing horchata lattes and cafe de olla that the third-wave coffee crowd often overlooks for the Pearl spots.
Tip: The horchata latte and cafe de olla give the coffee a local accent. A West Side cafe worth the detour.
Pastiche ★ 4.2
Pastiche is a cocktail bar in an unmarked 1920s Dignowity Hill cottage; charcuterie and cocktails reward the search down a quiet east-side street.
Why locals love it: A cocktail bar in an unmarked 1920s cottage on a quiet Dignowity Hill street, easy to miss and worth finding.
Tip: Look for the cottage on a quiet east-side street; there is no flashy sign. The charcuterie and cocktails reward the search.
The Cherrity Bar ★ 3.9
The Cherrity Bar is an east-side cocktail-and-comfort-food spot whose every tab funds a local charity, a giving-back model few visitors know about.
Why locals love it: An east-side cocktail-and-comfort-food spot whose every tab funds a local charity, a giving-back model few visitors know about.
Tip: Your visit funds a rotating local cause. The vegan plates and live music make it more than a gimmick.
Viet-Nam Restaurant ★ 4.1
Viet-Nam Restaurant is a plain broadway storefront that locals rate for the best pho in the city, with none of the signage to match the reputation.
Why locals love it: A plain Broadway storefront that locals rate for the best pho in the city, with none of the signage to match the reputation.
Tip: Do not judge it by the simple room; the pho is the reason locals send friends. Lunch is the quieter time.
El Milagrito Cafe ★ 4.1
El Milagrito Cafe is the oldest restaurant on the St Marys Strip, a 1969 family-run kitchen for chorizo-and-egg puffy tacos on fresh flour tortillas.
Why locals love it: The oldest restaurant on the St Mary's Strip, a 1969 family-run kitchen for breakfast tacos and chorizo-and-egg puffy tacos most visitors miss.
Tip: Order the chorizo-and-egg puffy taco on a fresh flour tortilla. A weekday-morning room that fills with Tobin Hill regulars.