Paul Stephen

4 days ago | expressnews.com | Paul Stephen

Rise and shine, folks. Your window of opportunity to enjoy one of the city's best brunch destinations is soon to close. Comfort Cafe has announced plans to shutter its Los Patios location at the end of the Fourth of July weekend. The restaurant rattled fans of the beloved spot in a Monday Facebook post that garnered more than 160 comments in two hours. "With full hearts and deep gratitude, we're announcing the upcoming closure of our Los Patios location," the post read.

1 week ago | expressnews.com | Paul Stephen

Get ready to bring the heat, San Antonio. The sprawling culinary depot Pullman Market is holding its first chili cook-off June 7. The competition is open to home cooks ready to spice things up, and there are at least $1,300 in prizes on the line for the best bowls of red. Pullman's cook-off will benefit the 100 Club of San Antonio, an organization dedicated to supporting the families of fallen or severely injured first responders in Bexar County.

1 week ago | expressnews.com | Paul Stephen

Dubai chocolate is so 2024. But the viral food craze just got a second wind with Trader Joe's announcement that it plans to launch its own take on the crunchy sweet amalgam of chocolate, pistachios and ribbons of crisp phyllo dough at stores nationwide this week. If you haven't caught onto this latest dessert trend yet, Dubai chocolate made its global debut in late 2023 and was driven to feverish popularity largely through social media marketing campaigns in the following year.

2 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Paul Stephen

With hundreds of cars tightly lined up to receive bags containing broccoli, squash, pineapple juice and more, San Antonio Food Bank president and CEO Eric Cooper literally had his hands full during a distribution event Saturday. It wasn't the sea of need famously captured in photographs during the early days of the pandemic, but the parking lot at Boeing Center at Tech Port was at capacity for the distribution, which was expected to provide roughly 40,000 pounds of food to about 1,000 families.

2 weeks ago | expressnews.com | Paul Stephen

H-E-B, Walmart, Target. It's easy to get into a grocery store rut in San Antonio. But wait. There's more. The Alamo City is home to more than a dozen outposts of the Houston-based La Michoacana Meat Market. You've probably driven past one tucked into a strip mall dozens of times. But if you haven't gone inside, you're missing out. Article continues below this adFounded in 1986, La Michoacana has expanded into a 140-unit-plus operation with stores stretching from the Gulf to Oklahoma.