After more than a decade in its Broadway brick-and-mortar location, San Antonio Italian mainstay Fratello’s Market & Deli shut its doors permanently in January. Now, the popular eatery has been reincarnated as a food truck — and its former head cook is running the show. Fratello’s To-Go suddenly appeared Sept. 7 on social media, announcing the […]
San Antonio’s Hotel Emma is again in the international spotlight, this time for receiving the city’s first-ever Two Key rating from Michelin’s hotel guide. The Michelin guide — the French tire company’s second-ever edition including U.S. hotels — came out on Wednesday. Only three Texas properties received the prestigious Two-Key rating.
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy — a Republican whose district includes parts of San Antonio and Austin — this week announced that the United States isn’t worth defending anymore because a friend’s daughter has a transgender music teacher. Yep, you read that right. The firebrand congressman’s latest absurd claim came during a half-hour screed delivered Tuesday on […]
Turns out, the adage about everything being bigger in Texas also applies to charcuterie boards. San Antonio-based supermarket chain H-E-B opened its first Central Market store in September 1994 in Austin. As a part of its 30th anniversary celebration, the specialty grocery store took on mission of breaking the Guiness World Record for “the largest charcuterie […]
Italian casual-restaurant chain Olive Garden is opening its 10th San Antonio location, this one near North Star Mall. Olive Garden is developing the new eatery inside a former Golf Galaxy retail store in the San Pedro Crossing shopping center, new state regulatory filings show.
Sign up for the We the Texans newsletter to receive twice-monthly updates on our year-long initiative dedicated to boosting civic engagement and chronicling how democracy is experienced in Texas. An effort by some Republican officials to curb access to early voting on college campuses in Tarrant County failed Thursday, after Tarrant County Commissioners Court voted […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency on Thursday released its internal review of Border Patrol agents’ response to the May 2022 Uvalde school shooting in which an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 students […]
Donald Trump and his surrogates have come up with all sorts of colorful ways to excuse his trouncing by Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s debate. But, so far, they all pale compared to the one cooked up by Texas evangelist Lance Wallnau. His explanation for why Harris spanked Trump so badly?
Blayne’s, the live music venue above St. Paul Square anchor Francis Bogside, will make its debut Thursday night rebranded as Frankie’s Roundup, a country and western nightspot. Frankie’s will feature a full bar, country music and barbecue served from the Francis Bogside kitchen. The revamped club is the first of several changes planned for the […]
City Council voted 9-2 Tuesday to move ahead with a $160 million minor-league baseball stadium development — even though it will mean the demolition of the Soap Factory Apartments, one of downtown’s few affordable rental options. Concern over the demolition delayed plans to decide on the project last Thursday. Council pushed back its vote after […]