Best Tasting Menus in San Antonio
Mixtli in Southtown is tasting-menu only, in a converted train car seating 12, and the menu changes every 45 days to explore different regions of Mexico. The latest Michelin award is a 2025 star, following an earlier star, with a curated wine program and craft cocktails.
Mixtli is a James Beard semifinalist in 2025 and 2026, a 2026 nominee.
Nicosi in River North District is a 20-seat, eight-course dessert tasting built around acid, umami, bitter, and sweet, with a 2025 Michelin Plate. Chika in Tobin Hills is an omakase counter with a sake program. Savor The Culinary Institute of America in Tobin Hills is a student-run restaurant with tasting-menu and prix fixe formats and a sommelier-led wine program. Nineteen Hyaku in River North District serves omakase with Texas Wagyu over live fire. Bliss Restaurant in Lavaca offers a tasting menu and a la carte service with an extensive wine list.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants serving a tasting menu or omakase, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Bliss Restaurant
Bliss Restaurant on South Presa Street occupies a quieter stretch of San Antonio's Southtown corridor, where the city's fine dining ambitions have historically taken root away from the Riverwalk circuit. The address places it within a neighbourhood that rewards the curious over the convenient, and the kitchen operates at a register that sets it apart from the casual Tex-Mex anchors that dominate the broader San Antonio dining conversation.
Chika
Chika enters San Antonio’s dining conversation through a sourcing-led lens rather than spectacle. Its 2025 James Beard Award semifinalist recognition for Best Chef: Texas, naming John Ramos and Jonathan Reyes, places it inside the state’s sharper conversation about cooks who treat regional supply, not imported luxury, as the defining material.
Mixtli
1 Michelin star
Mixtli holds back-to-back Michelin stars (2024 and 2025) and operates at the serious end of San Antonio's fine dining tier, presenting Mexican cuisine through a regional and historical lens that has few direct peers in Texas. The format is tasting-menu only, running Tuesday through Saturday evenings from 812 S Alamo St in the King William area.
Nicosi
San Antonio's only dessert-exclusive tasting menu holds a 2025 Michelin Plate and a strict no-photo policy that forces genuine attention on the food. Eight courses progress through four flavor themes — acidic, umami, bitter, and sweet — with each pairing landing somewhere between challenging and revelatory. At the $$$$ price point, it occupies a category of its own in the city's fine-dining tier.
Nineteen Hyaku
Nineteen Hyaku occupies a suite on Broadway in San Antonio's Midtown corridor, where the city's dining scene has been quietly diversifying beyond its River Walk anchor. The address at 1900 Broadway places it in a stretch that has drawn independent operators looking for a different kind of foot traffic, with a format worth understanding before you book.
Savor The Culinary Institute of America
Savor at the Culinary Institute of America's San Antonio campus occupies a rare position in the city's dining scene: a working restaurant where culinary education meets public table. Located in the Pearl district at 200 E Grayson St, it operates at the intersection of professional training and serious cooking, drawing guests who want to see where the next generation of American chefs is being formed.
Planning tasting menus in San Antonio
- Where are the tasting menus on this list?
- Tasting menus on this list are at Mixtli in Southtown, Nicosi and Nineteen Hyaku in River North District, Chika and Savor The Culinary Institute of America in Tobin Hills, and Bliss Restaurant in Lavaca. Mixtli is tasting-menu only. Nicosi is a dessert tasting. Chika and Nineteen Hyaku serve omakase. Savor The Culinary Institute of America runs prix fixe and tasting menus. Bliss Restaurant serves a tasting menu and a la carte.
- Which tasting menu on this list holds a Michelin star?
- Mixtli in Southtown is the restaurant on this list with a Michelin star. The latest award is a 2025 star, following a 2024 star. The format is a progressive Mexican tasting menu in a converted train car, exploring different regions of Mexico, with a curated wine program and craft cocktails. James Beard semifinalist and nominee mentions accompany the star.
- What wine is poured with these tasting menus?
- Mixtli in Southtown and Nicosi in River North District both have curated wine programs with craft cocktails. Chika in Tobin Hills adds a sake program to a curated wine list and craft cocktails. Savor The Culinary Institute of America in Tobin Hills is sommelier-led. Nineteen Hyaku in River North District has a sake program and a curated wine program. Bliss Restaurant in Lavaca has an extensive wine list.
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