Chef Sander Edmondson, once immersed in the crucible of contemporary Southwestern cuisine at Polo's in the Fairmount, has now settled into a comfortable middle-age at Bistro Time. The cafe's cozy environment, with its flanking banquettes and wood-framed ceiling, is...
Pushing the Culinary Envelope: El Jarro de Arturo
El Jarro was the first place I came to eat alone as a newly single woman," revealed Dining Companion when I announced our destination. "I must have eaten here a hundred times after the divorce," she later said, indicating the table she usually had occupied, with only...
Pesca: Seafood lovers, take note
Kick me under the table if you've heard this before, but the best fish is frequently not at places billing themselves as seafood restaurants, and this is as true in San Antonio as anywhere. If I'm feeling fishy, it's Le Rêve, Las Canarias or Boudro's I often think of....
Cappy’s – In Top Form: New polish for contemporary cuisine
Cappy Lawton has long been a pioneer of contemporary cuisine in San Antonio — perhaps the pioneer, if we really think about it. Though he's flirted with formats as diverse as EZ's and the old, legendary Quarter House, and has lately taken a turn south of the border at...
Elegant Dining in a Hunting Lodge Setting
Multi-course Dinners Offer Many Selections Wash the family car (or have it washed, as the case may be) before your dinner at The Lodge; arriving in style, you'll feel much better leaving it with the valet at the end of the curving, oak-shaded drive that leads to the...
Gladys at the Strand
Gladys at The Strand, named for the two grandmothers of the chef/owner Thomas Benninger, is a stylish, high-energy place tucked into a corner of The Strand, an upscale, high-visibility shopping center on Huebner Road at Interstate 10. On a Friday evening, all this...