{"id":478901,"date":"2026-10-28T04:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T04:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478901\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T04:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T04:20:11","slug":"san-antonio-shopping-center-adds-chocolate-shop-and-head-spa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/478901\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio shopping center adds chocolate shop and head spa"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, the bad news: San Antonians won\u2019t be able to nurse tomorrow\u2019s debilitating hangover with a 7 am michelada at Make My Day Lounge<\/a>. The longtime dive bar at 12114 Nacogdoches Rd. has been razed to make way for a different kind of suds \u2014 a Quick Quack Car Wash.<\/p>\n

But more hair of the dog is on the horizon. Make My Day is in the process of relocating to a new Northeast Side home in the River Oaks Shopping Center at 8373 Perrin Beitel. That\u2019s a few steps away from a Jim\u2019s Restaurant, so maybe it\u2019s for the best.<\/p>\n

The bar announced it was moving<\/a> in early April. Since then, it has been posting periodic updates, though it hasn\u2019t revealed the reopening date. Owner Leo Garza, the sole proprietor of the bar, says that\u2019s because he\u2019s dealt with a few setbacks like HVAC leaks.<\/p>\n

The lounge\u2019s history is a little difficult to pin down. Garza purchased the bar in 2023, but only knows it’s been around since the ’80s. A Yellow Pages listing<\/a> notes the Nagodoches Road spot was open for 29 years. That in no way should be taken as fact, and in some ways, it barely matters.<\/p>\n

Make My Day seemed like it existed forever, drawing in medical workers and service industry types for its signature Bloody Marys in the morning. At night, karaoke stars would belt out a few bars of \u201cCan\u2019t Stop Believin’.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garza, a 20-year Army vet who is now focusing on the bar full time, says the new bar will have a few improvements like a surround sound system and new TVs, but the dim atmosphere regulars have grown to love will remain the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s still going to be a dive bar in an updated setting,\u201d he shares.<\/p>\n

And at least one feature from the old days at Make My Day will return: the dedicated stage torn down around the pandemic. House band Izzy & the Lizards will frequently fill the space with \u201880s and \u201890s hits, and Tejano will be added to the programming.<\/p>\n

The hours of operation will be unchanged: 7 am-2 am, Monday through Saturday, and 11 am-2 am on Sundays. Garza says he is hoping to be back in business by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First, the bad news: San Antonians won\u2019t be able to nurse tomorrow\u2019s debilitating hangover with a 7 am…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36598,10802,39405,423,82,84,83,22006,9614,89561],"class_list":["post-478901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-chocolate","tag-far-north-side","tag-massage","tag-openings","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-spas","tag-stone-oak","tag-stone-oak-mercantile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478901","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=478901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}