{"id":408278,"date":"2026-08-16T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408278\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:50:08","slug":"new-york-times-two-of-the-best-mexican-restaurants-are-in-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408278\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times: Two of the best Mexican restaurants are in San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two San Antonio area spots rank among the country\u2019s greatest Mexican restaurants, according to a list The New York Times<\/a> released last week.<\/p>\n

Beacon Hill neighborhood staple Garcia\u2019s Mexican Food\u00a0and Seguin barbecue joint The Burnt Bean Co. were among 41 restaurants the Times recognized. They earned a place alongside Michelin-rated restaurants that offer fermented carrot juice and sourdough tortillas, food trucks and Mexican market serving counters.<\/p>\n

The list is \u201ca mosaic of great places to eat,\u201d the Times says.\u00a0\u201cWe hope it tells an expansive story about Mexican cooking in America today\u00a0\u2014 a dynamic cuisine all its own, and as American as any food.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yolanda Garcia and her late husband Julio opened Garcia\u2019s in 1962 and it\u2019s still family-run, with their four kids having taken over the reigns. It\u2019s known for serving heaping platters of chilaquiles, pork chop tacos, carne guisada and the best cheese enchiladas in San Antonio<\/a>, according to San Antonio Express-News food writer Paul Stephen.<\/p>\n

Garcia\u2019s Mexican Food earned a Michelin recommendation in 2024, the same year it tied for San Antonio\u2019s\u00a0best Mexican restaurant<\/a>, according to Express-News restaurant critic Mike Sutter. It nabbed the top spot on Sutter\u2019s 2023 rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cGarcia\u2019s is what an idealized American diner looks like in this part of the country: housemade salsas, tortillas instead of toast and plates of nourishing food at prices that explain why some customers visit multiple times a day,\u201d New York Times food reporter Brett Anderson writes.<\/p>\n

Burnt Bean Co. dishes up classic barbecue alongside brisket tacos and queso mac-and-cheese. Its Sunday breakfast menu features dishes that co-founder Ernest Servantes grew up eating in Uvalde, like huevos rancheros\u00a0and\u00a0menudo.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe restaurant simply serves the food of South Texas,\u201d Anderson writes.<\/p>\n

Sutter put the restaurant at the top of his 2024 list of the\u00a0Hill Country\u2019s best barbecue spots<\/a>. \u201cBurnt Bean does brisket with a rippled velvet elasticity like a velour shirt circa 1981,\u201d Sutter writes.<\/p>\n

Other Texas restaurants that made the Times\u2019 list are Hugo\u2019s in Houston, Nixta Taqueria in Austin and Taquer\u00eda Elemi in El Paso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two San Antonio area spots rank among the country\u2019s greatest Mexican restaurants, according to a list The New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-408278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408278","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=408278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}