{"id":308352,"date":"2026-05-25T21:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/308352\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T21:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:06:08","slug":"four-san-antonio-spots-among-texas-monthlys-best-new-taquerias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/308352\/","title":{"rendered":"Four San Antonio spots among Texas Monthly’s best new taquerias"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four of the best new\u00a0taquerias in Texas are in San Antonio, according to a new list from Texas Monthly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Taco Editor Jos\u00e9 R. Ralat highlighted 25 new taco spots<\/a> around the state in the magazine\u2019s June issue, from Longview in East Texas to Midland and Odessa out west. Four Alamo City restaurants made the cut, tying Dallas for the most spots on the list.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The list includes new restaurants that opened since Ralat ranked the state\u2019s 50 best tacos in 2024; 10 San Antonio spots made the cut for that list<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At\u00a0Aguazul<\/a>, which opened earlier this year on\u00a0the Northwest Side, Ralat praised the shrimp aguachile azul and the Big Red shrimp taco from\u00a0a menu that \u201creflects the Chinese and Mexican American heritage of owners Jose and\u00a0Ericka Fong.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Aguazul\u2019s executive chef, Enrique Lozano, won Food Network\u2019s Chopped last year, and was a James Beard semifinalist.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The West Texas-inspired Anacacho, inside the St. Anthony hotel, earned praise for its nopales, bean and cheese breakfast taco.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chef Leo Davila opened the cantina\u00a0at the downtown hotel last year, followed by Esencia in 2026, after closing his award-winning Mexican-Asian fusion restaurant,\u00a0Stixs & Stone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the northern edge of San Antonio, Ralat highlighted Tacos on the Street\u2019s<\/a> first U.S. location, which opened in the Stone Oak area last fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the Mexican restaurant, which started three decades ago near Puerto Vallarta, is best known for its carne asada, its new chicken offering makes it worth a stop, the magazine said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to make a chicken taco stand out, but this one is impossibly moist and admirably retains the flavor of the fire,\u201d Ralat wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The fourth San Antonio spot on the list is this West Side food truck serving what Ralat called \u201craucous\u201d carne\u00a0asada tacos.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Waca\u2019s non-taco offerings also impressed the critic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Wacabolas are clever fritters of guacamole, chicken, and cheese,\u201d he said, calling them \u201cSan Antonio\u2013style hush puppies.\u201d The birria grilled cheese also earned a mention, described as \u201ca\u00a0quesabirria taco with Americana flair.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four of the best new\u00a0taquerias in Texas are in San Antonio, according to a new list from Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-308352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}