Restaurant Week

10 must-try menus for San Antonio Restaurant Week

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Dive into delicious dishes during Restaurant Week.

With over 100 restaurants participating in San Antonio Restaurant Week this year, the opportunities for a prix fixe lunch or dinner have never been larger. Many of the best chefs in the Alamo City are taking part and offering some truly spectacular deals on fine dining.

You can see the full list of restaurants here, but we picked 10 of our favorite menus to help you narrow down the choices. Note: We suggest making a reservation sooner rather than later, as many restaurants will become fully booked. You have through January 28 to try out as many places as possible.

Alchemy Komucha and Culture
Alchemy is a relatively new addition to Alamo City. However, it has already built a fan base for its vegan- and vegetarian-friendly menu and the posh yet serene atmosphere. For Restaurant Week, it is offering a $35 three-course "soil," "sea," or "land" option. The vegan "soil" option sounds particularly appetizing: a shiitake and onion soup, crispy rice gnocchi, and a citrus rice cake.

Bliss
Bliss is typically one of those restaurants you save for a truly special occasion, but the $35 prix fixe menu serves up the delectable fare at a reasonable price. Guests will receive a luxe, three-course supper with options ranging from pork shank to Australian rack of lamb to sea scallops.

Boiler House Texas Grill & Wine Garden
With over 130 craft beers and wines from Texas, Boiler House is always a good time — and during Restaurant Week, it will be even better. You can dine at Boiler House for only $15 during lunch with three hearty options: a fried egg and bacon ciabatta sandwich, chicken pot pie, or a gourmet patty melt. Lunch also includes a chocolate bourbon pecan tart.

The General Public
Lest you think the only participating restaurants are on the south side, this excellent gastropub in the Shops at La Cantera will also be serving a lunch and dinner menu during Restaurant Week. Known for its amazing craft beer selection and comfort food, the General Public will offer a $35 three-course dinner with a main entree choice of its famous pork and greens or a center cut rib-eye. Save room for dessert, which is a choice between butterscotch pie or birthday cake.

J-Prime Steakhouse
A sister establishment of Brazilian restaurant Chama Gaucha, J-Prime is an elegant, New American steakhouse. The prix fixe, three-course menu includes its most popular selections like the filet mignon, lobster bisque, and chocolate mousse cake. Guests will marvel at the sumptuous dinner for two for just $70.

Las Ramblas
Fine dining on the River Walk is a San Antono tradition, and you would be crazy not to try the resident restaurant of Hotel Contessa at such a discounted rate. Every option for the $35 three-course dinner looks delectable, but the desserts are simply irresistible: a laurel-infused creme brulee with grilled pears and apples, a butterscotch s'mores bread pudding, or a red velvet lava cake topped with a mascarpone-chocolate ganache.

Nao Latin Gastro Bar
Nao delights diners with its Latin American cuisine. For the $15 prix fixe lunch menu, Nao has an assortment of great options, including appetizers of ceviche, skirt steak skewers, or quinoa cheese fritters; entrees like market fish or cast iron chicken; and desserts of mango cheesecake and creme de tequila tres leches. Needless to say, you might find yourself at Nao more than once during Restaurant Week.

Nosh
Nosh is a small, charming restaurant that is perfect for a casual yet romantic date night. Located below its sister restaurant, Silo, it offers fine dining without any pretension. Its three-course Italian dinner is only $25 per person and includes arancini (fried mushroom risotto balls), spaghetti carbonara, and tiramisu.

Smoke the Restaurant
Smoke serves up authentic Texas barbecue. Its locations in Stone Oak and downtown San Antonio are offering the same prix fixe selections. The dinner menu is a fine bargain, indeed, with Texas char-grilled oysters, three selections of meat with mashed potatoes and beans, and a peach cobbler for just $25.

Wildfish Seafood Grille
If you are craving seafood, consider Wildfish for Restaurant Week. Typically a pricier restaurant, the prix fixe menu is the perfect opportunity to try the fresh seafood selections. Most menu options are $35, but guests can also try filet mignon medallions with scampi-style Gulf shrimp or Parmesan lemon sole for $45.

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NYT loves AUS

Pastry chef from San Antonio makes New York Times Best Bakeries list

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Comadre Panadería is known for nostalgic Mexican bakes with feminine flair.

The New York Times has once again shined its spotlight on Austin’s culinary scene. It included Comadre Panadería, an Austin bakery by San Antonio native Mariela Camacho, on its new list of the 22 of the Best Bakeries Across the U.S. Right Now.

Interim food critic Priya Krishna praises pastry chef Camacho’s pastries that include conchas and her signature pink cake. “Despite their saccharine appearances, not one of the desserts is overly cloying, and even the coffee drinks (Texas pecan horchata! Cranberry vanilla agua fresca!) strike the playful tone of the pastries,” she writes.

Comadre Panadería has been widely recognized, including by this publication; Camacho, who is now based in Ausitn, won Pastry Chef of the Year in the 2023 CultureMap Austin Tastemaker Awards. She also earned a 2024 James Beard Award semifinalist nomination for Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker.

Camacho and Comadre as a whole are both invested in using baked goods to make a more equitable world, from the bakery's early days as a fundraiser for disaster relief, to a current insistence on charging enough to support ethical and organic foods, and paying staff enough to keep up with rising costs in Austin.

Although Camacho was born in San Antonio and started her baking career there, she also spent a significant time in Seattle, Washington, where Comadre started as a pop-up. According to Austin Monthly, she then moved back to San Antonio, and then to Austin. But no matter where she is, the Mexican cooking traditions of her ancestors take precedent.

Mariela Camacho of Comadre Panaderia in Austin Mariela Camacho, Comadre Panaderia. Courtesy photo

The Times also recognized Houston's Koffeteria. Krishna hails the bakery for pastry chef-owner Vanarin Kuch’s creative fare that includes dishes such as beef pho kolaches, Chinese sausage breakfast tacos, and butter mochi.

“Some of Mr. Kuch’s offerings are rooted in his Cambodian American identity — he makes cornbread with the coconutty, scallion-forward flavors of Cambodian street corn — while others are odes to Houston’s multicultural makeup. But most of the fun of Koffeteria is having no idea what Mr. Kuch will do next, and eagerly awaiting his next innovation,” Krishna writes.

Open since 2019, Koffeteria has been riding high this year. It earned a James Beard Award semifinalist nomination for Outstanding Bakery and a CultureMap Houston Tastemaker Award for Pastry Chef of the Year.

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Comadre Panadería and Koffeteria are the only Texas establishments to make the Times’ list. Only California and New York City, which each have three representatives, earn more recognition.

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