Guidebook for San Antonio

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Guidebook for San Antonio

Arts & Culture

If you go before noon on Sunday, you gain free access for the rest of the day, and you can come and go as you wish. Tuesday is also free after 4pm. Check out the Latin America Art collection.
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聖安東尼奧藝術博物館
200 W Jones Ave
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If you go before noon on Sunday, you gain free access for the rest of the day, and you can come and go as you wish. Tuesday is also free after 4pm. Check out the Latin America Art collection.
Admission is free on Tuesdays from 3 pm until 8 pm. Most of the exhibits in this museum, whether on dinosaurs or art, focus on the South Texas region.
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威特博物館
3801 Broadway
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Admission is free on Tuesdays from 3 pm until 8 pm. Most of the exhibits in this museum, whether on dinosaurs or art, focus on the South Texas region.
You'll need to drive to get there from here, but it's an excellent art museum, and arguably the best museum in the city.
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McNay Art Museum
6000 N New Braunfels Ave
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You'll need to drive to get there from here, but it's an excellent art museum, and arguably the best museum in the city.

Food Scene

Walk up Quincy, under the freeway overpass, and you'll come upon an entrance to the Riverwalk Museum Reach. Cross a bridge and you're at the Pearl complex. Various restaurants, bars, and shops.
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Pearl Brewery
303 Pearl Pkwy
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Walk up Quincy, under the freeway overpass, and you'll come upon an entrance to the Riverwalk Museum Reach. Cross a bridge and you're at the Pearl complex. Various restaurants, bars, and shops.
Rated #1 new restaurant for 2103, overloooks the river. Restauranteer originally planned Airstream trailers, but law prohibits beer service from trailers, so he went with shipping containers.
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The Luxury
103 E Jones Ave
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Rated #1 new restaurant for 2103, overloooks the river. Restauranteer originally planned Airstream trailers, but law prohibits beer service from trailers, so he went with shipping containers.
Famed for hamburgers (veggie available), the main restaurant has free live music (folk, bluegrass, Americana). There is a paid music venue in the back that attracts well-known bands, too.
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Sam's Burger Joint
330 E Grayson St
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Famed for hamburgers (veggie available), the main restaurant has free live music (folk, bluegrass, Americana). There is a paid music venue in the back that attracts well-known bands, too.
Top-rated restaurant. Small, intimate, with emphasis on local quality foods. Dinner can be pricey, but lunch menu is a great deal.
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Restaurant Gwendolyn
1017 E Pecan St
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Top-rated restaurant. Small, intimate, with emphasis on local quality foods. Dinner can be pricey, but lunch menu is a great deal.
This modern, clean taco restaurant has an interesting menu and, unlike the other Mexican places in the 'hood, it stays open late Th-Sa.
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Pete's Tako House
502 Brooklyn Ave
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This modern, clean taco restaurant has an interesting menu and, unlike the other Mexican places in the 'hood, it stays open late Th-Sa.
Charming atmosphere, outdoor deck patio, indoor dining, good food, also pleasant for a beer.
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Guillermo's
618 McCullough Ave
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Charming atmosphere, outdoor deck patio, indoor dining, good food, also pleasant for a beer.
Voted best enchiladas in San Antonio.
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The Original Blanco Cafe
419 North Saint Mary's Street
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Voted best enchiladas in San Antonio.
Excellent food from local sources, very veggie friendly, and a popular spot for live music to boot.
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The Cove
606 W Cypress St
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Excellent food from local sources, very veggie friendly, and a popular spot for live music to boot.
Received mention in USA Today as one of nation's best vegan restaurants. Vegan Tex-Mex? Who knew?
Vegeria
8407 Broadway
Received mention in USA Today as one of nation's best vegan restaurants. Vegan Tex-Mex? Who knew?
Among the top Vietnamese Restaurants in the city, with a very veggie-friendly menu.
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PHO SURE
8822 Huebner Road
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Among the top Vietnamese Restaurants in the city, with a very veggie-friendly menu.
"Mexican street food" is the inspiration for this menu, straying considerably from Tex-Mex. If you walk up Quincy and cross the river, this is the first Pearl restaurant you'll see. Try the margaritas
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La Gloria
100 E Grayson St
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"Mexican street food" is the inspiration for this menu, straying considerably from Tex-Mex. If you walk up Quincy and cross the river, this is the first Pearl restaurant you'll see. Try the margaritas
Best Italian in town, reasonably prices for an upscale place.
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Il Sogno Osteria
200 E Grayson St
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Best Italian in town, reasonably prices for an upscale place.
Highly rated seafood less than a mile away.
The Sandbar Fish House & Market
200 E Grayson St
Highly rated seafood less than a mile away.
In the Hotel Havana, there is both a scenic, quaint restaurant on the main level, and a vibrant bar by the same name downstairs.
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Ocho
1015 Navarro St
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In the Hotel Havana, there is both a scenic, quaint restaurant on the main level, and a vibrant bar by the same name downstairs.
Closest coffee, it's a Starbucks, love it or leave it.
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Starbucks
411 E Quincy St
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Closest coffee, it's a Starbucks, love it or leave it.
The Cove is a quirky delicious restaurant with locally sourced food, organic ingredients, and vegetarian options. Live music, indoor and outdoor bars, modern laundromat, carwash.
606 W Cypress St
606 West Cypress Street
The Cove is a quirky delicious restaurant with locally sourced food, organic ingredients, and vegetarian options. Live music, indoor and outdoor bars, modern laundromat, carwash.

Drinks & Nightlife

Oldest VFW in Texas, beautiful Victorian house, cheapest beer on the river!
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VFW Post 76
10 10th St
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Oldest VFW in Texas, beautiful Victorian house, cheapest beer on the river!
The oldest surviving GBLT bar in San Antonio, 30+ years. Also billed as one of the hottest clubs in the city. Recently renovated.
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Bonham Exchange
411 Bonham
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The oldest surviving GBLT bar in San Antonio, 30+ years. Also billed as one of the hottest clubs in the city. Recently renovated.
This is on the GBLT strip, along with Sparky's, Pegasus, Essence. The Saint and others are nearby.
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Heat
1500 N Main Ave
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This is on the GBLT strip, along with Sparky's, Pegasus, Essence. The Saint and others are nearby.
If you go down Quincy and turn left on North St. Mary's, this is the 1st bar/club you'll hit on this section of the strip. The Mix, White Rabbit, and others are here, usually with bands or DJs.
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Hi-Tones, San Antonio, Texas
621 E Dewey Pl
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If you go down Quincy and turn left on North St. Mary's, this is the 1st bar/club you'll hit on this section of the strip. The Mix, White Rabbit, and others are here, usually with bands or DJs.
If you go up Quincy and turn left on North St. Mary's, the second stretch of clubs begins after Ashby St. and includes the Limelight, Brass Monkey, Hard Bodies, and others.
Limelight Enterprises Ltd
If you go up Quincy and turn left on North St. Mary's, the second stretch of clubs begins after Ashby St. and includes the Limelight, Brass Monkey, Hard Bodies, and others.
Hip, uptown bar on the uptown Broadway strip.
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REBAR
8134 Broadway
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Hip, uptown bar on the uptown Broadway strip.
New and hip, known as a meat market for the rich and beautiful.
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Blue Box Bar
312 Pearl Pkwy
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New and hip, known as a meat market for the rich and beautiful.
Highly rated cocktails win accolades at this Uber-Hip Lounge.
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The Brooklynite
516 Brooklyn Avenue
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Highly rated cocktails win accolades at this Uber-Hip Lounge.
Also a restaurant. A good downtown bar favored by many locals.
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The Esquire Tavern
155 E Commerce St
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Also a restaurant. A good downtown bar favored by many locals.

Shopping

This is probably the closest drugstore. There is a Walgreens downtown, but no parking.
El Nogal Mexican Restaurant
1605 N St Mary's St
This is probably the closest drugstore. There is a Walgreens downtown, but no parking.
This is the closest liquor store. Only spirits, no wine or beer. In Texas, liquor stores close at 9pm M-Sa and do not open on Sun.
Rainbow Spirits
2811 N St Mary's St
This is the closest liquor store. Only spirits, no wine or beer. In Texas, liquor stores close at 9pm M-Sa and do not open on Sun.
The Valero convenience store is closer, but this is almost the same distance and has much more inventory of food, wine, and beer.
Alamo Food Mart
1900 N St Mary's St
The Valero convenience store is closer, but this is almost the same distance and has much more inventory of food, wine, and beer.
Closest convenience story, but very small with a poor selection.
Corner Store
727 McCullough Ave
Closest convenience story, but very small with a poor selection.

Essentials

This is the closest supermarket, straight up Broadway and on the left-hand side. San Antonio version of Whole Foods, but with more standard products/prices in the inventory mix.
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Central Market
4821 Broadway
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This is the closest supermarket, straight up Broadway and on the left-hand side. San Antonio version of Whole Foods, but with more standard products/prices in the inventory mix.

Everything Else

Considered by many to be the best pasteries in town
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Bakery Lorraine
306 Pearl Pkwy
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Considered by many to be the best pasteries in town
Not a large zoo, but it's there.
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San Antonio Zoo
3903 N St Mary's St
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Not a large zoo, but it's there.
This giant red building is a landmark if nothing else.
Navarro & Augusta station
This giant red building is a landmark if nothing else.

Sightseeing

These sunken tea gardens recently received a full facelift. If you walk up Quincy, lt on the river, lt on Mulberry, rt on Red Oak Rd, lt on Tuleta and across the bridge, it's about a 45 minute walk
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Japanese Tea Gardens
3853 N St Mary's St
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These sunken tea gardens recently received a full facelift. If you walk up Quincy, lt on the river, lt on Mulberry, rt on Red Oak Rd, lt on Tuleta and across the bridge, it's about a 45 minute walk