This week's hot headlines
New regional Mexican restaurant tops this week's 5 hottest San Antonio headlines
Editor's note: A lot happened this week, so here's your chance to get caught up. Read on for the week's most popular headlines. Looking for the best things to do this weekend? Find that list here.
1. North San Antonio sows heartfelt new spot for Central Mexican cuisine. Maricela Rangel Trujillo is hoping to put Central Mexican cuisine on Alamo City’s ever-expanding culinary map. Her new restaurant Maíz, opening on March 6 at 923 N. Loop 1604, is a tribute to her native Zacatecas and its surrounding villages.
2. San Antonio's top 10 neighborhood restaurants shape their communities. These are the Neighborhood Restaurant of the Year nominees for the CultureMap Tastemakers Awards, selected by a panel of judges including last year's winners — and they seem very different. Some are charmingly shaggy; others are decked to the nines. Somewhere in this list is your new home away from home.
3. An upscale steakhouse chain and a Texas-inspired newcomer supersize San Antonio food news. To paraphrase the late Aretha Franklin, chain, chain, chains are the focus of this week’s food news as another crop of franchises barrages Alamo City. Whether those companies will be proven fools is still to be seen as San Antonio weathers a stormy restaurant climate.
4. Unique spirit made in the Hill Country inspires eclectic new tasting room. Once San Antonians get used to sotol, we get a little cocky. Riding the high of learning about a new, lesser-known spirit, we forget it's still a big world out there. Senza Maeso Spirits is bringing sippers back down to earth — specifically to San Marcos — with a new tasting room for their propriety spirit.
5. What’s brewing in San Antonio: Awards abound and Kinematic calls it quits. The bustling San Antonio beer scene is always changing — usually with openings and closures, but there are other twists along the way. Let's discuss it over a cold one.
