Here’s a taste of what’s happening foodwise in town in this last week of December, as the virus-riddled shitshow of 2020 comes to a close. Here’s informative tidbits wrangled from numerous PR releases, official posts, words on the digital street, and even the occasional (verified) IRL eavesdropping. Huckleberry x Vista Brewing, FTW
Sweetgreen – the L.A.-based fast casual restaurant chain that started in Washington, DC, back in 2007 – has opened the newest outpost of its salad-centric succulence on the Drag. That storied stretch within the busy UT campus is an appropriate place, we reckon, to feature such popular plant-based provender and to include a local nod with interior wallpapers by Austin’s own Will Bryant. Also: “
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COVID-19 has forced
Rosario’s owner Lisa Wong to put a renovation on hold. But the longtime restaurateur continues with her plans to transform the old El Mirador property into another outpost of her San Antonio institution.
The pandemic also forced the postponement of Mexico City’s second annual
Coca-Cola Metate taco festival. No new date for the event has been set.
Ancient Heirloom Grains is the state’s newest heirloom Mexican corn molinero and tortilleria. The company set up shop this month in San Antonio.
South Padre Island food trucks, including vegetarian taco stand
Chile de Árbol, now have more freedom to operate. According to the Institute for Justice, a legal nonprofit that represented the food truck owners, “[The Cameron County] district court ruled that the city violated the Texas Constitution when it forced food truck owners to get permission from local restaurant owners before being eligible for a food truck permit, and by making it illegal for m