Smokey Mo's BBQ – San Antonio, Texas

October 24, 2015

This day was kind of cold and rainy, so the place was pretty empty. We went up to order from the counter I wanted to get the fried okra as one of my sides. This was on the online menu, but I couldn’t find it in the menu in the store. So I ordered a turkey sandwich combo with one side which I got potato salad, dad got the sausage sandwich with baked beans and mom had the pork sandwich with coleslaw. After we ordered we went to fill our drinks and load up from the condiment station. And shortly thereafter our food arrived at our table.

 

 

I thought my turkey sandwich was decent, but not as good of barbecue as I would hope to find after driving all the way to Texas. The barbecue sauce was not too exciting but we were in Texas and I don’t think that’s what they worry about the most. My potato salad I didn’t think was anything special. I did think that my dad’s beans looked very good.  All 3 of us thought this was okay barbeque, but not really too exciting and kind of disappointing.

22106 Bulverde Rd, San Antonio, TX 78259

Ajuúa! Mexican restaurant – San Antonio, Texas

October 23, 2015

When we arrived the place was not too busy at all and we were seated quickly.  

 

 

Chips and salsa were brought right away. The salsa was warm which is all right just different than most places. It wasn’t too spicy and it tasted all right. Eventually when we ordered I ordered the enchilada trio with chicken as did my dad and mom ordered the chicken fajita tacos.

 

The enchilada trio had one enchilada with chipotle cream sauce, one with a green sauce and one with a regular red chili sauce. I really liked the chipotle cream and green ones the best and thought the red chili was kind of plain and not too exciting. I liked the rice and beans quite a bit and the enchiladas all had plenty of sauce which was good with both the rice and beans. The enchiladas were good but I kind of wish there would’ve been different kinds of meat in each of them because they all were basically the same chicken enchiladas the only difference being that different sauces.

 

 

Mom said she liked her tacos and I thought they looked pretty good hers came with borracho beans. Which is kind of more like a bean soup.
 

Ajuúa! Mexican restaurant

11703 Huebner Rd #208, San Antonio, TX

Magnolia Pancake Haus – San Antonio, Texas

October 23, 2015

This restaurant was featured on diners drive-ins and dives however I didn’t know that until I saw a poster of guy on the wall. When we arrived on a late Friday morning the place was absolutely packed and we had to wait out front for at least a half an hour, but at least the weather wasn’t bad or anything. When we finally got in the service was very good and we didn’t have to really wait very long for anything. I ordered an orange juice and mom and dad both got coffee. Pretty much when the waitress returned with the coffee and drinks she took our orders I wasn’t sure what to get until I happened to look at the special menu and the ham and cheese waffle peaked my interest. So that’s what I ordered which came with two eggs which I got over easy. Dad got a basic breakfast and mom got pancakes and eggs.

In a few minutes our waitress back and dropped off some butter and syrup and shortly after that our food arrived.

 

 

At first I wasn’t sure how the syrup would go with a cheese but it seemed fine to me and the whole thing with absolutely delicious.  The syrup on the eggs not so much, but everything else was delicious. I don’t usually get waffles although I’m not sure why because all the ones I’ve had have been pretty good.  This one though was by far the best one I’ve found. And in fact this makes me want to be on the lookout for more waffles.

 

 

 

 

 

Magnolia Pancake Haus

606 Embassy Oaks #100, San Antonio, TX 78216

 

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Earl Abel's Restaurant - San Antonio, TX

October 22, 2015

We arrived here for an early dinner so the place wasn’t too busy and we were seated right away. Our waitress came in just a bit my parents both ordered coffee I just had a water. We looked at the menu for a while.  I had read online they were famous for their fried chicken so I already pretty much knew what I was going to get. The menu did say they had regular or spicy. But when I ordered the waitress didn’t ask and I forgot to specify spicy so I just got regular. I had the regular fried chicken breast and leg $10.25 and for my two sides I picked Sautéed Cabbage and mashed potatoes with cracklin’ gravy. Mom and dad both have the special the day which was Salisbury steak $10.95. Our meals came with dinner rolls as well.

I thought this was pretty good fried chicken but I definitely have had better. I really enjoyed the sides which were all homemade the cabbage even had bacon in it and the cracklin’ gravy on top of the potatoes was excellent.

 

After we were all done eating I was full and couldn’t eat much more. But mom and dad both decided to get pie. Dad got the chocolate ice box pie and mom had the lemon meringue pie.  I tasted on both and thought the chocolate was the better of the two but they were both very good.

Earl Abel’s restaurant in San Antonio was quite tasty and while they may not have the best food ever, they have very good homemade food that’s a bit on the fattening side but it tastes so good.

 

 

 

 

 website: http://www.earlabelssa.com/


 

1201 Austin Hwy #175, San Antonio, TX 78209

 

 

Dough Pizzeria Napoletana - San Antonio TX

Dough Pizzeria Napoletana October 22, 2015

This was our first day in San Antonio after 2 long travel days and a nice margarita pizza sound like just the thing.  When we walked in there was a strong smell of garlic and we had to wait a few minutes while they got the table for us ready. Once we were seated our waitress asked if we wanted sparkling water or regular water we just took regular and we all three ordered cokes, and also asked about the pizza sizes since the menu just said small or large.  She showed us with her hands about 10 inch and a 12 inch maybe sizes. So we all three just ordered three different small pizzas for ourselves.  

 

Both mom and I ordered a small margarita pizza ($7.50)

 

 

and dad ordered the pork love pizza ($11). This was an excellent margarita pizza as it should be since it’s a certified Neapolitan pizza place and I keep finding all the certified ones are very similar which would make sense. This was an excellent pizza and so was my dad’s he said.  This was a great way to start off my San Antonio food journey.
 

 

 

6989 Blanco Rd.
San Antonio, TX 78216