The Best Restaurants in San Antonio

For decades, San Antonio has been touted as the nation’s next great dining destination, a promise that’s becoming realer by the minute. In recent years, the family-owned restaurants that have always made the city a standout — chiefly serving barbecue and Tex-Mex — have embraced a young throng of chefs opening restaurants of their own, where they experiment with international flavors and savory desserts. Though the city is rapidly changing, locals refuse to give up on what makes it unique. Mom-and-pops neighbor new American showpieces. Dive bars rub elbows with upscale cocktail lounges. Even long-established street foods like corn in a cup or chicken on a stick are seeing reinventions. The mix is bringing a new exhilaration to an often-overlooked city.

Newly added to this map are Mare e Monte, Isidore, Biga on the Banks, Pumpers, Toro Kitchen + Bar, and Gino’s Deli. Ladino, Las Nieves, Sherry’s Texan, and Barbecue Station have been removed.

For more San Antonio eats, check out the heatmap and essential tacos.

This map was originally written by Polly Anna Rocha and Ben Gonzalez.