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Visiting San Antonio, Texas to see the Alamo or maybe going to a conference and not sure what food you should enjoy? Well there is a lot of great food in San Antonio. It is a UNESCO City of Gastronomy so you know there are going to be a lot of great treats to eat when you are here in San Antonio. From puffy tacos to chicken on a stick to less traditional fare, you will love eating in San Antonio. Where to eat in San Antonio.
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Hey, the fellow hungry travelers, Mark here with Walters World
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And today we're here in San Antonio, Texas, on the Riverwalk. And today we're going to talk about are some of the things you should eat when you come here to San Antonio
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Because if you didn't know this, UNESCO has named San Antonio. What are the creative cities of gastronomy in the world
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That means the food here is excellent and they're super creative and it's super amazing
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So if you're going to come to San Antonio, it's not just for conferences and spurs games
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It's to eat until you explode because of food's so good. And one of the things that really puffs you up when you come here are puffy tacos
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Now, if you're used to having tacos, you know, there's hard shell tacos and soft shell tacos
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But if you had a puffy taco and how they make these puffy tacos is you take the masa that they use to make the tortilla and you shape the tortilla, but you don't cook it on a flat top
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What they do is they throw it in the fryer and it fries up and it puffs up
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Oh, and it looks like a little ball and it kind of comes down a bit and they put the toppings inside like normal tacos
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You can have lots of different stuff in there. but oh my gosh, they are so good when you're here, you've got to have them
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Though I will tell you, they don't have them in all the Tex-Mex and all the Mexican restaurants here
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It's only in certain places they have it. Henry's and Race Drive are the two most popular ones for the Puffy Tacos
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but if you see it anywhere, you got to grab them because they're fantastic, okay
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Now, one thing I have to tell you is there's a lot of Mexican restaurants, Tex-Mex restaurants
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around San Antonio. Even if you're here on the riverwalk, you'll see tons of restaurants along the way
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And one thing you don't have to worry about is getting bad Mexican food or bad Tex-Mex food when you're here in San Antonio because no one's going to go to a bad place here, okay
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So they don't survive. So that's really good. So go and try Tex-Mex when you hear a lot of different kind of things, whether you're going for enchiladas or you're going to go for, you know, like I said, the puffy tacos, or maybe you're going to go for the tamales or whatever
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You're going to have so many options. You know, I had a chirore eno the other day, which was to die for, okay
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So you're going to have that. But one of the kind of Mexican dishes I really want you to have when you're here
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and it's especially a popular, like, breakfast item is chilequiles. And chilequilis basically a layman term would be yeah it breakfast nachos but that not what it is okay Basically what it is you take tortillas or tortilla chips you break them up and you cook them in a sauce like whether like a red sauce or a green sauce or red salsa or green salsa
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You cook that up, put cheese and egg with it. Oh my God, it's so good
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And then if you get it, like as a plate, they'll have rice and beans with it or some meat on the side
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I did this morning with some pork on the side, some pork on the side
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It was so good. But chile quiles is a fantastic breakfast option, but it's so popular that a lot of places
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will serve it during the day, so have some chilequillas when you're here. Now another Mexican staple you'll find here that you really have to have is Pesole
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And Pesole is basically a hominy stew soup. My wife makes it all the time, and it's got different meats and their chilies
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you know, all kinds of like fudge kind of stuff, onions and garlic. It's just, it's a really flavorful soup you'll have, but it's really fortifying
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And if you're here in the summer, I don't really recommend it in the summer because it's a hot, hearty food
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Like, look, I'm sweating here. It's early September. So I'm not having Pesololi. this visit, but when I come in December or January
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I'm definitely having that when I'm here, because though, man, the hominy and everything in
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it just, oh, it's so good. Now, another thing I want to talk about is
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don't pass up getting breakfast tacos when you're here in San Antonio, and they can be from anywhere
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Your takaria might have breakfast, they might be open earlier, so they might have it there
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or one of the gas stations might actually have breakfast tacos that are fantastic
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And when you're getting breakfast tacos, yes, there might be eggs and bacon, or there might be other stuff as well
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So get those, you will not be disappointed. pointed, okay? Now, I've talked a lot about nice skin and Tex-Mex food here in San Antonio
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but there's a lot more. I mean, you don't get to be a city of a gastronomy, right, unless you have a lot of stuff going on. And there's one dish, not really a dish
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one snack food, I think is fun. If you're here doing Fiesta, which is the big festival
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here in San Antonio, you'll see chicken on a stick. And basically, it's a fried piece of chicken
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on a skewer with a pickled jalapeno on top. The thing is, it's not like a bone-in
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chicken patty almost, but like a chicken breast kind of thing there
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Oh my god, they fried so well, it's so good, and the juice that comes out of the jalapeno
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kind of gets on it and you're like, why's that there? Then you eat, you're like, oh, now I understand
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You kind of nibbling on both of them That a really nice thing to do But the thing is is if you here outside of Fiesta you don find it very often But if you do it be like on an appetizer on the appetizer menu so you can find it there
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Now, since we are in Texas, we have to talk about some of the really Texas-y foods you're going to have when you're here
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Yes, chicken fried steak is the thing here as well. You will have that. If you're not sure what chicken fried steak is, it's steak, it's beaten and then battered and then fried, and it's phenomenal
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You'll have that with mashed potatoes and a white gravy. Oh, that is another fortifying food when you're here
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And what you notice is, San Antonio has a lot of really great restaurants. There's a lot of great steak houses
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So you can get that Texas steak in here. You can get that. You'll see seafood places around here
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Heck, you'll see German restaurants all around this area, which is great
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because you have the hill country just north of here. And there's a lot of you're like Fredericksburg, and you have all kinds of German restaurants
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But here, right on the river walk, there's multiple German restaurants. You can go and have the German sausages and schnitzels and things
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You know, schnitzel, the chicken fried steaks, from Germany, right? He's from in from out of town. Let's eat him too. If you really need
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something really techs that, yes, there are Wodeburgers all around. If you don't want to spend a lot of money when you're eating. And I think that's another thing is important to notice. When you are
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eating here in San Antonio, if you're going to go to the nicer restaurants, you do pay a nicer
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higher price. But since there's so many conferences that come through San Antonio and a lot of tourists
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that come through, there's actually a wide range of prices for you to eat. Also, there's a
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wide range of selection of types of food. So if you want the traditional touristy fair of Lutterburger
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Big Red and Rainforest Cafe and Hard Rock Cafe, they have that as well. So if you don't, if you
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get the Tex-Mex or Mexican food burnout, which some tours do when they come here, you have plenty of
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options. Now, another thing is when you're going around San Antonio, it's not just here in the
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Red Rocks. It's not just downtown. There's actually a lot of neighborhoods you can go to and visit
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and some have really good restaurants. You know, if you go to King Williams District, the historic one
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it has lots of great architecture, but not a ton of really good restaurants. If you want to get good
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restaurants, you're going to the Pearl District, to the Pearl neighborhood, and you're going to eat there
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where there's a lot of really good and a higher end restaurants, and you can have that
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But one thing I'll say is if you're going around town and you see a Padilla a bakery go into the bakery and get Panduice the sweet breads that are there Oh my God they are so good And what great is you can get them and a lot of times they have them wrapped up
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So if you're going home tomorrow or the next day, you can buy some, take it home
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and enjoy it with your family. Or like me, enjoy it back at the hotel. Because, yeah, I bought some myself
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Now, if you're looking to go out when you are here, like I said, the riverwalks got all kinds of bars and restaurants on it
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But also, you'll see these places. called Ice Houses, which basically look like an old gas station that someone just kind of turned into a bar
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And yes, you go there and you have your cans of beer with your buddies. It's always a good time
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But I think the most important adult beverage here in San Antonio is the margarita
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Okay, margaritas are everywhere, all over the place, and the locals love them. And so you have lots of different variety of margaritas as well
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It's just not the one standard margarita. You can get a lot of different flavors, a lot of different drinks as well, let's say
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And that can be a really fun time. I mean, be responsible, obviously, but it's really nice to have a variety of margaritas you can try and enjoy when you're here
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And they go really well with those puffy tacos, chicken on a stick, pretty much anything you eat here
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Okay? And of course, you know, with the chips in queso, because, you know, that's how we roll here in Texas
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Another thing to mention when we're talking about adult beverages is the hill country is only an hour or so north of here
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and that's where a lot of Texas wineries are. So you actually do have Texas wine you can get when you're here, and you can actually do wine tours based out of
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San Antonio to go and try some of the wines. And so that could be a nice culinary treat as well
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And that's just a thing. It's not just the wine tours you can go on. There's also a lot of culinary trails you can do
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So you can do food tours when you're here. You can do food classes to figure out how to make some of the fantastic food
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And you're here in San Antonio because you really start to see why it's UNESCO Creative
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City of Gastronomy with not just the food you eat, but you see the creative nature of that food
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Now you can learn it as well. So I hope this helps you know what to eat when you come here to San Antonio. What's your favorite place to eat
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Where's your favorite place to eat here in San Antonio? But what's your favorite thing to eat when you come to San Antonio
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Put in the comments section below so we can have other travelers eat well when they're here. Bye from here in San Antonio
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