The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near Soluna
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- San Antonio Express-News #6 · Top 10 Steakhouses in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News #7 · Top 10 Chicken-Fried Steak in San Antonio
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- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #50 · Top 50 Restaurants in San Antonio
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- San Antonio Express-News #5 · Top 10 Chicken-Fried Steak in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #37 · Top 50 Restaurants in San Antonio
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Rank 14. The Barbecue Station
Barbecue
A converted gas station near the Loop holds thirty years of smoke and ritual. Brisket arrives in thick-cut slices on cottony bread; the turkey carries the gentler char of post oak and mesquite. The sides—particularly the house potato salad—deserve their own visit.
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- San Antonio Express-News #10 · Top 10 Nachos in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News #4 · Top 10 Outdoor Dining Restaurants
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- San Antonio Express-News #1 · Top 10 Pizza in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #47 · Top 50 Restaurants in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #3 · Top 10 Castle Hills Restaurants
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Rank 17. Isidore
Texas New American
Isidore honors Texas ingredients and indigenous foodways through an ambitious, shareable menu anchored by a live-fire hearth in the Pearl District's midcentury modern setting. The popcorn chicken and dry-aged pork chop showcase the kitchen's confident hand with local sourcing and bold spicing.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Esquire 2025 · Miracle of the Well · The Best Martinis in America
- The New York Times 2025 · The Restaurant List
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- Bon Appétit The Best Breakfast Tacos in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #32 · Top 50 Restaurants in San Antonio
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Rank 19. Nicōsi
Creative Dessert
A velvet-curtained counter in a darkened corner of Pullman Market hosts an entirely dessert-focused tasting menu, each course built around acidic, umami, bitter, or sweet. The theatrical plating—tomme cheese mille-feuille with caviar and gold leaf, short rib crowned in house-spun cotton candy—rewards the surrender of phones and photographs alike.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Tavel Bristol-Joseph
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- San Antonio Express-News #2 · Top 10 Brunch Restaurants in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #46 · Top 50 Restaurants in San Antonio
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Rank 22. Cullum's Attaboy
French
A cottage near St. Mary's where counter seating overlooks an open kitchen dispensing French-leaning breakfasts on a modest budget: proper omelets glossed with butter and hollandaise, house-made rolls cradling smoked brisket and egg, powdered sugar doughnuts that eclipse most beignets. The breakfast potatoes alone justify a visit—they possess a clarity other versions lack.
- Food & Wine 2024 · Ham & Cheese · Best Dishes Our Editors Ate This Year
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Best Chef: Texas · Christopher Cullum
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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Rank 23. Clementine
Globally Inspired
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Best Chef: Texas · John Russ
- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #2 · Top 50 Restaurants in San Antonio
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In San Antonio
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- Texas Monthly 2024 · Honorable Mentions · Texas’s Best New Restaurants
- San Antonio Express-News #2 · Top 10 Fish Tacos in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #23 · Top 50 Restaurants in San Antonio
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- San Antonio Express-News #4 · Top 10 Fish Tacos in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News #3 · Top 10 Nachos in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #36 · Top 50 Restaurants in San Antonio
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Rank 26. Ladino
Mediterranean
Ladino channels Mediterranean ease through wood-fired pita and boldly seasoned vegetables in the Pearl District's verdant courtyard. The kitchen coaxes unexpected depth from seasonal ingredients—fermented tomatoes, labneh, smoked chili—with cocktails that match its restless creativity.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Texas Monthly 2023 · Honorable Mentions · Texas’s Best New Restaurants
- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #12 · Top 50 Restaurants in San Antonio
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- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Texas · John Ramos and Jonathan Reyes
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- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #41 · Top 50 Restaurants in San Antonio
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- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #48 · Top 50 Restaurants in San Antonio
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Rank 31. Mezquite
Sonoran Mexican
Mezquite pivots toward Sonoran cooking in a sun-faded stall, opening with ceviche before moving to grilled onions and black garlic spread across paper-thin tortillas. Free-range chicken in pipian rojo arrives with a fleet of sides meant for sharing, and the flan closes the meal with custard-soft certainty.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Texas Monthly 2025 · #10 · Texas’s Best New Restaurants
- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #17 · Top 50 Restaurants in San Antonio
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- San Antonio Express-News #1 · Top 10 Outdoor Dining Restaurants
- San Antonio Express-News #6 · Top 10 Nachos in San Antonio
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- San Antonio Express-News #10 · Top 10 Fish Tacos in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News #9 · Top 10 Nachos in San Antonio
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Rank 34. Best Quality Daughter
American Chinese
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Emerging Chef · Jennifer Hwa Dobbertin
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Texas · Jennifer Hwa Dobbertin
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Texas · Jennifer Hwa Dobbertin
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Rank 36. Curry Boys BBQ
Thai Barbecue
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Texas · Andrew Ho, Andrew Samia, and Sean Wen
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Texas · Andrew Ho, Andrew Samia, and Sean Wen
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Rank 38. Garcia's Mexican Food
Tex-Mex Mexican
Since 1962, Garcia's has anchored this corner with the kind of Tex-Mex cooking that draws lines around the block at breakfast and dinner alike. The deluxe plate—enchiladas, tamale, chili con carne, hard taco—arrives in a squat dining room where the staff moves through the crowd with genuine warmth.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #24 · Top 50 Restaurants in San Antonio
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- San Antonio Express-News #1 · Top 10 Nachos in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News #5 · Top 10 Outdoor Dining Restaurants
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Rank 40. Southerleigh Fine Food & Brewery
Texas American
Inside the old Pearl brewhouse, Southerleigh pairs raw brick and steel with a brisk modern dining room where locals drift between tables and the bar overlooks the working fermentation tanks. Snapper throats arrive with remoulade, crawfish rolls come dressed in spiced fries—the menu speaks Texas Gulf and Southern comfort in a single breath, matched by house beers that taste of the place itself.
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- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #27 · Top 50 Restaurants in San Antonio
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- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #6 · Top 10 Chinese Restaurants in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #8 · Top 10 Castle Hills Restaurants
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- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Texas · Grey Hwang
- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #4 · Top 50 Restaurants in San Antonio
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- San Antonio Express-News #1 · Top 10 New Orleans Restaurants in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News #8 · Top 10 Brunch Restaurants in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #35 · Top 50 Restaurants in San Antonio
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- San Antonio Express-News #1 · The Top 5 panaderías in S.A.
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Baker · David Cáceres
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- AAA Four Diamonds
- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #8 · Top 50 Restaurants in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News #2 · Top 10 Steakhouses in San Antonio
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- San Antonio Express-News #9 · Top 10 Outdoor Dining Restaurants
- San Antonio Current 2025 · The 50 best bars in San Antonio
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- San Antonio Express-News 2024 · #5 · Top 10 Italian Restaurants in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #45 · Top 50 Restaurants in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #4 · Top 10 San Antonio River Walk Restaurants
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- San Antonio Express-News #6 · Top 10 Fried Chicken in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News #4 · Top 10 Brunch Restaurants in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #34 · Top 50 Restaurants in San Antonio
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Rank 77. Mixtli
Mexican
Galicia and Torres build tasting menus around Mexico's fractured geography and deep past—one night Oaxaca, the next pre-Columbian, the next the hot lands. Their fine-dining technique animates regional traditions with cerebral precision, each plate a small argument about flavor and history, plated with care that matches the cook's obvious reverence for the source material.
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- AAA Four Diamonds
- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #43 · Top 50 Restaurants in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News 2025 · #1 · Top 10 San Antonio River Walk Restaurants
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- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Texas · Sue Kim
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- San Antonio Express-News #10 · Top 10 Chicken-Fried Steak in San Antonio
- San Antonio Express-News #5 · Top 10 Fried Chicken in San Antonio
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- San Antonio Current 2025 · The 50 best bars in San Antonio
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
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- San Antonio Current 2025 · The 50 best bars in San Antonio
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