Restaurants Around San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas, is a huge city with much to offer. From museums and historical sites to stadiums and restaurants, there’s no end to the things you can do when you live in or visit this wonderful city. But navigating all it offers can be challenging, especially when it comes to finding good places to eat. The northern part of the city is pretty well documented, as it’s where most tourists gravitate, but the southern side has some cool stuff going on too. If you’re looking for the best restaurants, check out our guide to restaurants around San Antonio.
1917 Restaurant
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Location: 7610 South New Braunfels Ave.
Hours: Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Located inside the Embassy Suites hotel, you’ll find 1917 Restaurant. The restaurant offers a true farm-to-table dining experience thanks to its locally sourced ingredients. An on-site garden supplies herbs and vegetables, while the hotel’s beehives provide the honey that sweetens various menu items. In addition to the restaurant, there’s also a bar and a market. When the weather permits, you can enjoy your meal on the patio, complete with firepits and a waterfall. Take advantage of happy hour specials on weekdays from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
On the lunch menu, you’ll find appetizers such as garlic flatbread and wood oven chicken wings that will start your meal off nicely. Its signature 1917 Dip is a must-try sandwich that comes with shaved rotisserie prime rib, Swiss cheese, smoky provolone, caramelized onion, and garlic horseradish dijonnaise on toasty ciabatta bread served with rotisserie jus. For dinner, consider the oven-roasted salt block salmon, 1917 house-cut steak, or a wood oven pizza. No matter what you order, you’re sure to leave satisfied.
Don Pedro Mexican Restaurant
Location: 1526 SW Military Drive
Hours: Sunday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.
For over 50 years, locals have been enjoying fresh and delicious Mexican meals at Don Pedro Mexican Restaurant. Whether you’re looking for somewhere to take a date or dine with the family, this place is sure to hit the spot. It offers a family pack with 15 tacos you can assemble yourself, with various sides that pair with the meal perfectly. You can get breakfast here, with options including pancakes, breakfast tacos, and home-baked tortas.
The lunch and dinner menu offers various nachos, tamales, tacos, and combination plates. Some of the most popular items are the grilled seafood platter with tilapia and shrimp and the personal sizzling fajita skillet. Save room for one of Grandam Leticia’s homemade desserts, such as the tres leches cake or churros.
B&B Smokehouse
Location: 2619 Pleasanton Road
Hours: Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
There’s nothing quite like savory Texas barbecue, and that’s exactly what you’ll get when you eat at B&B Smokehouse. It’s been around for more than 50 years, so you can count on it to provide great food and service. It uses fresh ingredients to carefully craft all its classic recipes, so there’s something on the menu that’s sure to please everyone in your group.
For lunch, you can get specials every day of the week. For example, on Wednesday, you can choose either a sausage po’boy with fries or a three-pork rib plate with two sides. Or go on Friday for a brisket po’boy with fries or a brisket and sausage plate with two sides. Speaking of sides, it offers potato salad, cream corn, Spanish rice, coleslaw, pinto beans, and green beans. Other menu items you might like include rib plates, monster baked potatoes, tacos, and burgers.
Burger Boy
Location: 4402 S. New Braunfels Ave.
Hours: Sunday through Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to midnight
Burger Boy has several locations in and around San Antonio, including one on New Braunfels Avenue that you can easily get to if you’re on the south side of the city. This local fast-food chain has great burgers, such as the classic Burger Boy, the Junior Boy, and the Double or Triple Boys, which come with extra meat. You can add bacon or jalapenos to your burger for a little extra flavor.
It also has corn dogs, grilled cheese sandwiches, fish sandwiches, and chicken sandwiches. Get a Neapolitan, Fruity Pebbles, or Oreo milkshake to go with your meal, or choose the shake of the month for something special.
Sherry’s Texan
Location: 606 Pleasanton Road
Hours: Tuesday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Although Sherry’s Texan specializes in seafood dishes, you can also get breakfast here, making it an ideal place to go for any meal of the day. If you do stop in for breakfast, you can get classics like pancakes, biscuits and gravy, egg plates, and omelets. But if you’re craving seafood, go for lunch or dinner. You’ll find menu items such as The Fisherman’s Platter, which comes with three jumbo shrimp, two oysters, two fish fillets, shrimp cocktail, stuffed crab, and hushpuppies, as well as the flounder dinner, which is flounder fried in your choice of cornmeal or flour.
Even if you or someone in your dining party doesn’t like seafood, you’ll find something on the menu to please. It has burgers, salads, chicken, steaks, and more. You’ll love all the options here.
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So there you have it. South Park Nissan’s list of some of the best restaurants around San Antonio where you can get delicious food that is sure to fill you up and keep you coming back for more. Do you have a favorite restaurant in the area we didn’t mention? Drop us a line, and we’ll try it out. We love having an excuse to visit local businesses.