A 20-seat underground omakase in Monte Vista where Chefs Jonathan Reyes and John Ramos run a 13-course progression blending Japanese and broader influences. The room is small enoug...
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Outlaw Kitchens
New American
Paul Sartory rotates a weekly three-course dinner through world cuisines from a Monte Vista house that feels more like a dinner party than a restaurant. One menu, one seating, and ...
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Cullum's Attaboy
Brunch · James Beard Semifinalist, Michelin Guide
Counter-service diner in Monte Vista that casually pairs champagne and caviar with a French omelette and a solid breakfast taco on the same menu. It shouldn't work, but nobody told...
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Barbaro
Pizza
A Monte Vista cocktail bar that happens to make some of the best pizza in town. The Taleggio hash brown pie is the opening argument, the carbonara pizza closes it. Happy hour is ge...
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Taco Taco Cafe
Tex-Mex / Breakfast Tacos · Monte Vista SA breakfast-taco institution
A Hildebrand Avenue breakfast-taco institution — flour tortillas made on site, migas-and-chorizo breakfast tacos, and one of the benchmark breakfast-taco shops in a city that takes...
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La Fonda on Main
Mexican / Tex-Mex
The oldest Mexican restaurant in San Antonio, holding court on N Main Ave in Monte Vista since 1932. The tree-shaded courtyard patio is the main event — order a margarita, bring th...
84
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Los Barrios Mexican Restaurant
Tex-Mex · Established 1979 — Barrios family Tex-Mex flagship
The Barrios family has been running this Blanco Road Tex-Mex operation since 1979 — four decades of combo plates, Enchiladas Barrios, chile rellenos, and puffy tacos that people dr...
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Pegasus Nightclub
Nightclub · Top 50 Gay Bars in US (Queerty)
Multi-room LGBTQ+ nightclub on N Main Ave named to Queerty's top 50 gay bars nationally, and it earns the ranking. DJ sets, drag performances, outdoor karaoke, a country bar, and d...
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2015 Place
Dive Bar
2015 San Pedro Ave has been holding it down for Monte Vista's LGBTQ+ community longer than most bars in this city have been open. Cheap well drinks, long happy hours, pool tables, ...
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Banana's Billiards
Pool Hall
Cash only, no credit card minimums, no nonsense — Banana's Billiards on San Pedro Ave is a dozen-plus tables, cold longnecks, and regulars who actually know how to shoot pool. The ...