San Antonio Area - New Restaurant Openings -and- Restaurant Closings (Alamo: historic, opportunity)

[Bo]

Originally Posted by blizzrd

Pollo tropical is "ok". It's all so bland. I don't get the big deal with the place.

I think the point of the bland food is to encourage customers to use the sauces on the bar.

My family doesn't like it, either. I like it OK.

[gtoman67z]

Originally Posted by Chaka

a longer article on the topic
The Monterey to Close on its Fifth Anniversary

Great Rivard report article details the relatively brief, but influential history of what, for my money, was the best restaurant to open in SA during the thirty plus years we've lived here.

[RadiantBaby]

El Monty will be missed

[ashbeeigh]

Uptown Deli, located at St. Mary's and mcCullough (next to Guillermo's in the lil shopping center) is closing after today's lunch. Sad because they were a so-so option in the area.

[TXEX06]

Originally Posted by gtoman67z

Great Rivard report article details the relatively brief, but influential history of what, for my money, was the best restaurant to open in SA during the thirty plus years we've lived here.

I miss when Watson was in kitchen, the Monty hasn't been the same to me since. The first couple years I went almost once a week, the last two years I've been a handful of times.

[Willsatx]

Originally Posted by ashbeeigh

Uptown Deli, located at St. Mary's and mcCullough (next to Guillermo's in the lil shopping center) is closing after today's lunch. Sad because they were a so-so option in the area.

That's so sad to hear went there for lunch many times, it's was a good cheaper option that Guillermo's.

[GWhopper]

Originally Posted by Willsatx

That's so sad to hear went there for lunch many times, it's was a good cheaper option that Guillermo's.

Ate there many times when I worked downtown. I will miss them.

[jwebtx]

Originally Posted by gtoman67z

Great Rivard report article details the relatively brief, but influential history of what, for my money, was the best restaurant to open in SA during the thirty plus years we've lived here.

It was the restaurant that proved you could do some cool stuff in SA proper and do very well. They opened the floodgates.

The suburbs are still waiting for that type of restaurant.

[Azure110]

Originally Posted by jwebtx

The suburbs are still waiting for that type of restaurant.

Any suburb outside of loop 410 probably can not support that kind of business, definitely not outside 1604.

[RadiantBaby]

Originally Posted by Azure110

Any suburb outside of loop 410 probably can not support that kind of business, definitely not outside 1604.

Agree. Just look at some of the asinine comments on social media when it was announced they were closing. People scramble to line up for In & Out, but a place like the Monty flies totally under their radar.