Coastal Italian restaurant Allora, located across Avenue B from the Pearl, has permanently closed, an official from its operating group confirmed Tuesday. Brannon Swindle, director of hospitality for San Antonio’s Maverick Restaurant Group, told the Current that the high-end dining spot was shuttered over the weekend. Swindle said fine-dining restaurants face a “tough market” right now.
The Mahoney Bar Group, owner of some of San Antonio’s best-known nightspots, has new leadership. The family of the late Robert Darilek — Mahoney Bar Group’s majority partner — has taken over management of the company that owns and operates SA staples Francis Bogside, George’s Keep, Hanzo and Lilly’s Greenville, Darilek’s son, Trey Darilek, told […]
Western apparel- and boot-maker Tecovas will open a second San Antonio location next month, this one with a $1.2 million price tag, according to company officials. The Austin-based chain’s new location, 5300 Broadway, Suite 5330, in Alamo Heights will hold a grand opening the weekend of Oct. 4-6. Shoppers can expect the same array of […]
Shavano Park’s Rooster Crow Bakery revealed its impending closure in an Instagram post over Labor Day weekend. The bakery, located at 4421 De Zavala Road, didn’t specify the reason for the sudden closure, only stating only that “it’s been a wild ride but we gotta bounce!”
San Antonio tax attorney John Atwood filed the necessary campaign-finance paperwork over Labor Day weekend to join the crowded race to select San Antonio’s next mayor. A tax attorney, small business owner and business professor at Herzing University online, Atwood told the Current his campaign will focus on correcting the city’s looming budget deficit, fighting crime […]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday threatened to sue Bexar County if it approves a plan to use taxpayer money to mail voter registration applications to its residents. The threat is the latest in a controversial series of moves the Republican AG has made in what his office calls an effort to uphold “election […]
San Antonio’s chefs and restaurant owners help the community break bread. Now a member of San Antonio’s restaurant scene is asking the community to spare some bread in return. Keenen Hendricks, the owner of Smack’s Chicken Shack, has recently been diagnosed with a brain tumor and is reaching out to local foodies for support.
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“Can you handle 9 inches long?” the tagline at San Antonio hot dog joint El Chunky reads. Should this strike fear, let it be known that the snappy and juicy all-beef dogs at El Chunky may start out at nine inches, but with the application of heat, they shrink by roughly an inch, making them […]
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