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A McAllen restaurant known for its huge mariscos menu is charting a course for San Antonio. La Costa Grill is planning a new location, its first outside the Rio Grande Valley, at the Landmark North development at 5546 N Loop 1604 W #150.La Costa offers a wide selection of Mexican-style seafood dishes, including shrimp aguachile, salmon ceviche, zarandeado octopus, whole huachinango (red snapper), and arroz a la tumbada, a famous fish soup from Veracruz. A few American dishes, like oysters Rockefeller and salmon jalapeño poppers, round out the oceanic offerings. The restaurant also dishes out tacos, queso fundido, and several steaks, including a tomahawk big enough to serve two guests. The dessert menu veers into international waters with Southern cornbread topped with ice cream, crepes, churros, and Filipino-style fried banana rolls.Assumably, La Costa will also have a full liquor license. The McAllen location pours various domestic and imported beers and a selection of cocktails, none of which appear to be margaritas. There is, however, something called a Sinatra Splash, which may or may not contain the singer's beloved Jack Daniel's.McAllen businessman Edgar Soberon opened La Costa Grill in 2015. Since then, he has debuted two locations of sibling restaurant Mariscos La Costa in Palmhurst and San Juan, Texas. The menus similarly focus on seafood with a slightly greater emphasis on fried foods.Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation records mark January 2026 for the buildout's end. So far, the business has not officially announced the location.

A celebrity chef known for Netflix’s The Final Table and the Food Network’s Chopped is opening a new restaurant at 5138 UTSA Blvd #101: Graham Campbell will soon launch a San Antonio version of his Edinburgh, Texas restaurant Castlehill Bistro.

Now may be a good time for San Antonians to stock up on stretchy pants. Fogo de Chão, a popular Brazilian steakhouse chain known for its all-you-can-eat grilled meats, is opening a North Side location, at 5546 N. 1604 W #160, on May 26, according to a company bulletin.

San Antonio is losing a piece of its culinary history. After a remarkable 63 years in business, Tex-Mex legend Oscar’s Taco House at 705 Barrett Pl will close June 28, according to the restaurant. Nearby bridge construction at South Zarzamora Street and Frio City Road will displace the long-running South Side business.

San Antonio-born Crepeccino is stacking up two new locations of its popular coffee shop and creperie. As the cafe prepares to open its first Cibolo location, construction will begin on a third outpost at the new Portico at Shaenfield Ranch development at 7807 W Loop 1604 N #201.

As blue-collar workwear continues to evolve from a utilitarian necessity to a chic wardrobe staple, Michigan-based Carhartt is expanding with its first San Antonio company store. The heritage brand is building a new shop, only the third in Texas, in the Alamo Quarry Market at 7322 Jones Maltsberger Rd #112.

A main goals of MITES is to empower students and teachers to grow, collaborate and advocate for education in the industrial and technological education fields.

Two years after expanding to the Alon Market shopping center, Jewish-inspired San Antonio diner The Hayden has abruptly shuttered its second location at 10003 NW Military Hwy #2115. The original outpost at 4025 Broadway will remain open.The restaurant took to social media to announce the surprise move. The statement characterized the closure as a "pause," although there appear to be no plans to reopen the fledgling location."After many sleepless nights, we've made the extremely tough decision to pause our Alon location immediately while we figure out what's next for that beautiful space," the restaurant wrote. "We wish we could've announced this sooner and thrown a proper farewell tour, but sometimes as Kenny [Rogers] says: you've got to know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em (and when to walk away)."Owner Adam Lampinstein opened The Hayden in summer 2020, serving reimagined Jewish dishes like matzah ball soup and fried chicken with latke waffles. The concept was an immediate hit, with Texas Monthly's now-retired food writer Pat Sharpe listing the restaurant's pastrami and Swiss sandwich as one of her favorite dishes of that year.After its profile was further raised by a 2022 appearance on the Cooking Channel's "Food Paradise," The Hayden branched out to a second location in the Alon Market development in June 2023.

After more than a quarter century serving luxury travelers, San Antonio’s La Cantera Resort deserves a spa day. The Hill Country property at 16641 La Cantera Pkwy has revealed a $40 million guest room makeover — its first since 2017.

New San Antonio gastropub Singh’s Cantina is finally open, according to a social media post. In a full-circle moment, the outdoor bar is located at 15410 White Fawn Dr, the site of Singh’s Vietnamese original food truck before it made the leap to a St. Mary’s Strip brick-and-mortar.