Need groceries? Go to Your H.E.B.

by RoadRunner | Dec 4, 2018 | food & drink, San Antonio insider, shopping

Need groceries while you are at the Holiday Inn-Downtown, our event hotel? Go to your H.E.B. at 516 S. Flores, only a 5 minute walk. Turn  right after leaving the hotel and walk down West Cesar Chavez one block to S. Flores and turn right. It’s there on the...

Don’t Forget to Shuck the Tamale

by RoadRunner | Nov 28, 2018 | food & drink, San Antonio insider

They still call it the “great tamale incident.” In !976, President Gerald Ford, at a reception at the Alamo, grabbed a tamale off a plate and started eating it, shuck and all. An alert hostess from the Daughters of the Republic of Texas saw was was about...

You Can’t Leave SA Until You’ve Had a Breakfast Taco

by RoadRunner | Nov 22, 2018 | food & drink, San Antonio insider

Everyone in San Antonio has a favorite place for breakfast tacos, but, quite frankly, there’s no such thing as a bad breakfast taco in San Antonio. (Now Austin — that’s another story. They boast that theirs are the best, but what do they know about...

What the Heck is Pico de Gallo?

by RoadRunner | Nov 18, 2018 | food & drink, San Antonio insider

In Mexican cuisine, pico de gallo (pronounce it as PEEK-o -day-GUY-o), literally beak of rooster, also called salsa fresca, is made from chopped tomato, onion, coriander leaves (we love our cilantro!), fresh serranos (jalapeños or habaneros are used as alternatives),...

Beer Here (part 2)

by RoadRunner | Feb 24, 2017 | food & drink, San Antonio insider

Earlier we wrote about the downtown brew pubs in San Antonio. Here is a selection of places to get interesting beer: The Friendly Spot is at 130 S. Alamo at the intersection with Cedar, at the edge of the King William Historic District in what we call Southtown. They...

In Southtown on Sunday: Wander Through Blue Star

by RoadRunner | Feb 15, 2017 | art, food & drink, San Antonio insider

All of the Sunday walks will take you past the Blue Star Contemporary Arts Complex, in the area we call Southtown. In 1985, Hap Veltman and Bernard Lifshutz purchased the historic, run-down and vacant  Blue Star Ice and Cold Storage complex across the San Antonio...