mike_mccue


I have a gig in San Antonio next week.

I want to be a tourist in the few free moments I'll have so I'm going to walk by the "river"

Does anyone know where can I order vegetarian food without being shot by the Sheriff or lynched by a posse?

I've never been to San Antonio, but if I ever went, this would probably be the first place I'd check out:
 
http://www.greensanantonio.com/

ohhh that's on the list.

Thanks!

Oh Mike,

my wife knew the name of the place - the Liberty Bar.  Same neigborhood.  There were a couple of similiar places around there.  The food was novél.  In an old wooden house, and the floor was slanted.  Character, you know.  It is on google, but no web site.

If you go with carnovoires, however, do take them to the Blanco Café @  Blanco and Elsmere.  And Chris Madrids.  He opened a little one-man hamburger joint back in the 70s we used to eat at in college.  Nacho burgers.  The place is huge now and he's won best SA burger.  If you don't eat you can get a pitcher of Mararita.  Now I'm wanting to go back for a trip.

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That sound great AT, it's me and several carnivores.

I can usually find something just about anywhere... so local goodness is valued highly even if it's not vege themed.

Thanks.

best,
mike

Careful, it's my understanding that Texans tend to eat vegetarians...

No, only if they are corn and grass fed ;-)

And Mike, there used to be some good Vietnamese places.  After the war they flocked there, what with the military bases and similiar weather.   Worth a look, for sure.

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:-)

I like Vietnamese food!

I grew up in San Antonio.  I don't remember ever having a vegetarian meal.  Salad was that green thing they dropped on your table before the steak came out.  Beef was for all meals (not just dinner).  Pork was a beef substitute.  Becan and sausages were mandated at least once a day.  Chicken was accpetable if you didn't make a habit of it.  Rattlesnake was preferable to Chicken, but was not widely available in polite company.  Fortunately, we didn't have that too often.  Polite company, I mean.

Telling a Texan you didn't eat meat would have been similar to telling them you didn't breathe, only less believable.  I understand that things have changed somewhat.  Yankees have settled in amongst the regular folks and they've brought their strange foreign customs.  I hear that some places even offer food for Yankees and Californians.  (It's the difference between an alien from another country and an alien from another planet.)

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