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Hops & Hounds planning new location on Museum Reach segment of San Antonio’s River Walk

June 17, 2022 By Richard Webner 1 Comment

Hops & Hounds, a restaurant and dog park, is slated to open at 1123 Avenue B on the Museum Reach, around December 2022.

Hops & Hounds, a restaurant and dog park on the Northeast Side, plans to open a second location on the River Walk in north downtown next to Elsewhere Garden Bar & Kitchen.

Filed Under: Avenue B, Business, Food & Drink, Midtown & Pearl, Museum Reach, Nightlife, Pets & Animals, River North, River Walk Tagged With: Beaty Palmer Architects, Cavender family, Clint Wynn, Elsewhere Garden Bar & Kitchen, Hixon Properties, Hops & Hounds, Jamie Hardaway, Lee Beekly, Mila Coffee, Museum Reach, Office of Historic Preservation, OHP, River Walk, The Soto

Austin entrepreneurs plan to open cluster of bars on North Alamo in downtown San Antonio

June 17, 2022 By Richard Webner Leave a Comment

An Austin partnership plans to convert this cluster of buildings at 901 N. Alamo St. into four bars.

Two entrepreneurs from Austin plan to add to the growing bar district on North Alamo Street by renovating a cluster of buildings into four bars, including a performance venue.

Filed Under: Business, Nightlife, North Alamo, Transactions Tagged With: Ace Spring Service, Bentley’s Beer Garden, Cavender family, David Adelman, Ed Cross, Grunt Style, Hen House, Hixon Properties, Hudson Crocket Holdings, La Roca Cantina, North Alamo Street, Roadmap Brewing Co., Rouhi Alameddine, Social Spot, The Lucky Duck, The Soto, Tony's Siesta, Wade Nguyen

Francis Bogside building in Southtown San Antonio sold to Austin buyer

June 13, 2022 By Richard Webner 1 Comment

Francis Bogside is located at 803 S. St Mary's St. in San Antonio, Texas.

A partnership that includes a prominent entrepreneur and philanthropist from Austin has purchased the retail strip in Southtown that includes the Francis Bogside bar.

Filed Under: Business, Retail, Southtown, Transactions Tagged With: &J Heierman Building Ltd., Abe Zimmerman, Arrosti, Bookpeople, Francis Bogside, Heather O’Neill, Judy Provost, King William Professional Group, Southtown, Steve Mahoney, Sweat Equity

Iconic Voodoo Doughnut chain plans first San Antonio store on Houston Street

June 6, 2022 By Richard Webner 1 Comment

The Maverick apartment building is located at 606 N. Presa St., San Antonio, Texas.

Voodoo Doughnut, the iconic Portland, Oregon-based retail chain known for selling donuts with eclectic toppings in pink boxes, has signed a lease to open its first San Antonio store in the location of the Playland pizzeria on Houston Street.

Filed Under: Business, Food & Drink, Houston Street, Retail Tagged With: Chris Schultz, David Adelman, Houston Street, La Panadería, Maverick building, Playland, Stefan Bowers, Voodoo Doughnut, VooDoo Doughnuts

Mila Coffee, brewery joining new market inside Cavender Cadillac buildings in downtown San Antonio

April 5, 2022 By Ben Olivo Leave a Comment

This rendering shows the Ready Made Market inside a former Cavender Cadillac dealership building behind The Soto office building, 711 Broadway.

A new food-and-beverage market called Make Ready, inside two former Cavender Cadillac dealership buildings off Broadway, is due to open this winter with a dozen tenants.

Filed Under: Avenue B, Broadway, Business, Development, Food & Drink, Historic Preservation, Office, River North Tagged With: Argo Group, Broadway, Broadway News, Brooklyn Avenue, Cavender Cadillac, Encore Bank, Hixon Properties, Make Ready, Marco Cardel, Mila Coffee, Pouring With Heart, SHOP Companies, The Soto, Ulrich Investment Consultants

Incoming sports bar McIntyre’s drawing concerns from some in San Antonio’s Lavaca neighborhood

March 24, 2022 By Ben Olivo 55 Comments

The future home of McIntyre's, a sports bar from Houston, rests on land bound by South Presa, Clauda and South St. Mary's streets. March 9, 2022.

Though it has yet to take shape, McIntyre’s, a Houston-based sports bar, has already ruffled the feathers of some in the Lavaca neighborhood.

Filed Under: Architecture, Business, Development, Food & Drink, Lavaca, Neighborhoods, Nightlife, Retail, South Presa, South St. Mary's, Southtown Tagged With: Bar Ludivine, Braun Enterprises, Brian McIntyre, Chase McIntyre, Hands Down, King William, Kyle Berg, Lavaca, Lavaca Historic District, Lavaca Neighborhood Association, McIntyre’s, Melissa Stendahl, Nick Melde, Office of Historic Preservation, OHP, Taco Haven, The Haven Southtown, We Are Southtown

Breakaway Brewing Co. slated to open in Government Hill in San Antonio this fall

February 20, 2022 By Ben Olivo 47 Comments

Breakaway Brewing Company is slated to open at 1518 E. Grayson St. in Government Hill sometime in the fall.

A new brewery called Breakaway Brewing is coming to the downtown area, this time to the rapidly growing Government Hill neighborhood.

Filed Under: Business, East Side, Food & Drink, Government Hill, Neighborhoods, Nightlife, Retail Tagged With: Betty's Battalion, Breakaway Brewing Company, Chris Pal-Freeman, Encore Multifamily, Folklores Coffee House, Government Hill, JBSA-Fort Sam Houston, JBSA-Fort Sam Houston Caisson, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Lackland Air Force Base

An evening with El Niño Fidencio, a Mexican curandero

December 28, 2021 By Kayla Padilla 4 Comments

Jonathan Ray Coronialla opened his yerberia, Botanica los Misterios, on the south side of San Antonio 10 years ago as a positive place for spiritual and physical healing for the community, he said on Dec. 2, 2021.

Though I had gone into Botanica Los Misterios to interview the owner about the herb shop’s maintenance during the Covid-19 pandemic, our conversation took a turn when he mentioned El Niño Fidencio, a Mexican curandero.

Filed Under: Business, Miscellaneous, People, Religion, South Side Tagged With: botanica, Botanica Los Misterios, Covid-19, curandero, El Niño Fidencio, Jonathon Ray Coronilla, Pauline Coronilla, South Side, yerberia

How they built Bexar Tonics, San Antonio’s emerging tonic syrup brand

December 27, 2021 By Rocky Garza Jr. 60 Comments

A few months into Covid, Matt McLaughlin and Maray McChesney decided to turn their homemade tonic syrup hobby into a business. Now they’re working with Whole Foods to get their product on local shelves.

Filed Under: Business, Food & Drink

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