Bistro in San Antonio

; Finally, a bona fide Moroccan restaurant has arrived, bringing the sophisticated tastes of Casablanca to the North Side. Try the savory harira soup, meat-filled brewat rolls, and seafood bastilla- wrapped in delicate pastry leaves. A house specialty — the Meshoui, roast lamb shanks braised in a rich eggplant, tomato, and zucchini. 

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Sunday Brunch is now available for curbside and delivery. They are offering their full brunch menu, along with bottled beer, wine and champagne starting at 11am on Sundays. Bistr09's temporary hours are 7 days a week from 11am-8pm. They are offering complimentary delivery within a 2-mile radius of the restaurant. Further delivery will be for an additional charge.

We regret to report that Bistro Thyme has closed. ;;Chef Sander Edmundson serves upscale comfort food in a pleasant interior. Keep an eye out for the crab cakes and meatloaf.

With its moderately priced steaks and delicious Cajun/Creole dishes, Bourbon St. Cafe will entice you to make it a regular culinary stop.

Cucumber sandwiches on trimmed white bread? Not here! The garden is charming, but this is no longer the habitue of ladies who lunch. The grilled chicken boursin with wilted spinach and proscuitto was good, but we gobbled up the house-made lemon-pepper potato chips.

Offering alcohol for Pickup/Take Out.

This cafe featuring home-style food has been around since the late '30s. Country and Tex-Mex dishes are both a part of the menu.

Efrain Gutierrez Taller houses video production, art exhibits, film screenings and a café.

Bistro and art gallery in San Antonio, TX.

Hilly also does more than passable pasta, the dish of shrimp in lemon-caper sauce over angel hair being a briny/buttery success, and the baked penne with mini meatballs and four cheeses delicate beyond expectations. Desserts are made “for us but not by us,” yet the ubiquitous tres leches was appealingly moist and well-flavored, so the source is apparently a good one.

San Antonio has spent lavishly on Houston Street for the very purpose of equalizing the traffic. We have widened sidewalks in anticipation of the madding crowds. There are lighted palm trees and the vaunted connection at Presa Street between Houston and the River - a stairway and associated water feature calculated to "suck" people up off the River Walk. Unfortunately, the water feature is as often featuring mud as not, and the Presa-connection public art, a series of neon-illuminated, etched glass "manhole covers" set into the sidewalk as way-finding runway lights, hasn't functioned fully since its installation. (It's useless during the day even when working properly.) Should you, despite all odds, actually make it to Houston Street - past the handsome, and brave, glass gallery and the Buckhorn's enthusiastic, bless 'em, barkers - your first big urban experience is a view of a parking lot. A real crowd-pleaser every time.;This is all a shame, for Houston Street doesn't need to be our very own Boulevard of Broken Dreams. There is already a lot to offer: Between the brash Buckhorn and the posh, new Valencia hotel alone there are several cultural and commercial attractions - the Children's Museum and the Majestic and Empire Theatres among them - worth the attention of locals and visitors alike. And there are classy bars and upscale restaurants, pioneers on an underpopulated frontier. In addition to strategic and inventive marketing, the street needs the bars and the restaurants. Among the first to stake a claim was the Houston Street Bistro, and their most recent reward for vision and perseverance has been the canceling of the final portion of the symphony's season in the adjacent Majestic. So much for the prix-fixe, pre-theater menu - at least on symphony nights. - Ron Bechtol

The cozy, futuristic environment, friendly, talented baristas, and bath-worthy foam make a cappuccino drunk at the storefront window pure bliss.;;

Damien Watel's Southtown homage to Belgian food and cafe life feels and tastes deliciously European, from the creamy shrimp fritters to the succulent moules and crispy frites. The fresh fish is usually excellent, too, and a top-notch selection of Belgian beers complements the wine list. -- 01/09

An art-community cofeehouse with a good vibe, notable panini, and passable coffee. -- Jennifer Herrera, 02/08