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3 great Jamaican restaurants in San Antonio for Black Restaurant Week: The Jerk Shack, Little Jamaica and Real Real Jamaica
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Jamaican beef patties, top, and jerk pork tacos are part of the menu at the popular Jamaican restaurant The Jerk Shack on Matyear Street on San Antonio s West Side.Mike Sutter /StaffShow MoreShow Less
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Jamaican jerk pork ribs are new to the menu at The Jerk Shack on Matyear Street on San Antonio s West Side.Mike Sutter /StaffShow MoreShow Less
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Braised oxtails come with cabbage and rice and peas at the popular Jamaican restaurant The Jerk Shack.Mike Sutter /StaffShow MoreShow Less
Texas Monthly’s roundup of best new restaurants in Texas Posted By Nina Rangel on Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 11:18 AM click image Instagram / curryboysbbq Curry Boys BBQ offers one of the magazine s top takeout appetizers. The San Antonio food scene is having a moment. At least, according to
Texas Monthly’s food writers, we are.
A total of 11 Alamo City eateries are featured in the 29th edition of the magazine s annual Best New Restaurants in Texas issue, which hits stands in March. The listings are divided into categories including “Where to Eat Now” and “The Best To-Go Dishes.” Brasserie Mon Chou Chou at the Pearl and Little Em’s Oyster Bar in Southtown appear on
Photograph courtesy of Jeffrey S. Rovner
For nearly a year now, we’ve been thinking more about takeout food than we used to. Local restaurant owners have been thinking a LOT more about it, and many have taken a deep dive into things such as take-away containers, microwave settings, and menu shifts.
At Fork and Knife in Costa Mesa, the plan was always to provide gourmet to-go meals. But co-owner Jonathan Blackford discovered there were some surprises. “Everyone in the country is using the same to-go containers, and they are so expensive. We’re spending about twice what I budgeted for to-go containers,” he says. And it’s not just the price, but availability issues are also a challenge. “This is going to sound ridiculous, but I bought a new truck just so we could have extra space for the containers. It’s not like I can buy one case and the next week buy another. They might be out, so I have to buy five cases and then store it.”
Which is why Amex and Resy are launching a campaign to encourage folks to make #TakeoutTuesday a regular thing. Tuesday is, after all, usually the slowest day for a restaurant. You can always get takeout from your favorite local places, but if you need ideas of what to eat, go to resy.com/takeout. (And, if you need even more ideas, check our latest Best New Restaurants list, as well as our list of 100 Restaurants We Can’t Afford to Lose.)
If not having to cook dinner for the 300th time on Tuesday isn’t enough of an incentive to do takeout, certain Amex cards like Delta SkyMiles and Hilton Honors can earn up to $220 in credits at U.S. restaurants. And Green Card members and Gold Card members already earn points on dining and takeout. You might not be traveling now, but it’ll be good to stock up on points for when the world finally opens up. and it will.
“It came at the perfect time because that was right when we shut down again and right as we were having to lay people off, said Mike Ransom, chef-owner of three Ima noodle restaurants in Detroit and Madison Heights. It allowed us to keep on twice as many hourly staff as we’d otherwise been able to, knowing that we had a little extra help to buffer our payroll for two or three periods.
Meals were delivered in the days between Christmas and New Year s, normally one of the busiest weeks of the year for the hospitality industry but not so in 2020 as dining rooms remained shuttered amid the protracted COVID-19 pandemic.