{"id":80079,"date":"2025-12-08T07:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T07:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/80079\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T07:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T07:17:11","slug":"historic-san-antonio-burger-staple-provides-update-on-grand-reopening-after-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/80079\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic San Antonio burger staple provides update on grand reopening after fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After weeks of promising to return to glory, a San Antonio burger chain has announced the reopening of the restaurant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/food\/article\/whopper-burger-boy-history-17814178.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:that started it all;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">that started it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Back in August, a fire broke out at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/article\/san-antonio-burger-boy-fire-20929131.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:original St. Mary&#039;s Street location;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">original St. Mary&#8217;s Street location<\/a> of Alamo City staple Burger Boy. The late-night fire caused a full evacuation as the restaurant was engulfed in flames from the kitchen to attic, according to fire officials at the time. In November, a representative for Burger Boy told MySA the remodel was well underway, and set a target date for when it would reopen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Saturday, December 6, Burger Boy took to social media to provide yet another update about the progress of the remodel.&#8221;Our team has been at work rebuilding, refreshing, and bringing new life to the spot where it all started,&#8221; a statement from social media reads. &#8220;We&#8217;re on track to reopen in the first quarter of 2026 and we can&#8217;t wait to welcome you all back through those doors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thank you for sticking with us,&#8221; they added. &#8220;The Original is coming back \u2013 stronger, fresher, and ready to serve San Antonio again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The St. Mary&#8217;s Strip restaurant is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/food\/article\/whopper-burger-boy-history-17814178.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Burger Boy&#039;s busiest spots;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Burger Boy&#8217;s busiest spots<\/a>, often drawing late-night crowds. The San Antonio staple first opened in 1985 and has since expanded to several locations, maintaining its reputation for classic burgers, crinkle-cut fries, and nostalgic fast-food charm with its &#8220;Workingman&#8221;\u00a0special.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/food\/article\/whopper-burger-boy-history-17814178.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Burger Boy&#039;s roots\u00a0;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Burger Boy&#8217;s roots\u00a0<\/a>trace back to 1955, when Frank Bates opened Whopper Burger in San Antonio, two years before the national Burger King introduced the Whopper. After Bates died in 1983, the trademark was eventually sold to the national chain, but his legacy lived on when his son, Carl Bates, opened the first Burger Boy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/food\/article\/st-marys-burger-boy-21229090.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Historic San Antonio burger staple provides update on grand reopening after fire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Historic San Antonio burger staple provides update on grand reopening after fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After weeks of promising to return to glory, a San Antonio burger chain has announced the reopening of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[39083,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-80079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-burger-boy","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\/80079","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=80079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}