From reading cookbooks in the back of HH-60 helicopters to a yearlong apprenticeship where his fingers never left the cutting board, Chef Stefan Bowers was destined for culinary greatness. In 2011, while working as executive chef at 20Nine, Bowers met entrepreneur Andrew Goodman, and the pair opened the doors to Feast, the King William spot…
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Business spotlight: Anne Marie’s Carriage House Bistro
In 1896, the Sullivan Carriage House was built for Texas civil-war hero turned banker Daniel J. Sullivan. By 1987, stonemasons were taking apart the piece of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture to move it to its new home at the San Antonio Botanical Garden. Nearly one hundred years after it was first built, the Carriage House was…
Business spotlight: Shag the Salon
Are you hip to the Shag? Then shimmy on down to McCullough to find the mod-est spot San Antonio’s got to offer. The lime green yellow dotted building houses some of the Alamo City’s most daring stylists; trust your tresses to Shag the Salon because “good hair doesn’t happen by itself.” Stylists and co-owners David…
Business spotlight: Texas Public Radio
If you scanned the San Antonio radio waves during the ’80s in search of prime public programming, you’d be out of luck. In fact, San Antonio was one of the last sizeable cities in the country where listeners couldn’t get public radio. From this, Texas Public Radio emerged. Now, you can “hear yourself think” in South…
Business spotlight: Sustenio
Sustenio is so much more than a restaurant inside a hotel. Sustenio is a culinary experience with lodging attached. Celebrity chef Stephan Pyles (the man that put the southwest in southwest cuisine) collaborates with Executive Chef Mike Collins to create a menu “comprised of innovative, original new dishes with some reinventions of Texas classics,” with…
Business spotlight: Custom Shop Guitars
Custom Shop Guitars offers San Antonio a unique boutique-shopping environment for musicians and collectors alike. This is not a big-box music shop–this is an experience where each customer is carefully paired with his ideal instrument. With a wide selection of exclusive brands, including Collings, Santa Cruz, Breedlove, Teye, and Fender Custom Shop, customers will find…
Business spotlight: The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts
Everybody’s talking about the new Tobin. With 10 resident companies, including AtticRep, Opera San Antonio, the San Antonio Symphony, and Ballet San Antonio, educational-outreach opportunities, and space to support national acts, the Tobin offers San Antonio unparalleled access to the performing arts. The world-class venue promises to “once again become the pride of the River…
Business spotlight: reVAMP
Tired of waking up to the same old stuff day after day? The only cure for that is reVAMP, San Antonio’s one stop shop for the freshening up your décor requires. Whether your taste lean to the industrial or the fluff, the fancy or the grunge, the big or the small, anything at all, the…
Business spotlight: Copenhagen
Forty-five years ago, Erik Hansen and Tony Christensen started Copenhagen in Phoenix, Arizona, with the mission to bring “the best in European-style contemporary furniture to the U.S.” Six stores later, and Copenhagen is still a family business and the leader in contemporary furniture sales. Erik’s son Jen shares the Copenhagen passion for clean design and…
Business spotlight: Dermalily
If you’re going to talk about Dermalily, you have to talk about Melissa Valdez. Sure, the owner and operator of the Southtown skincare and waxing studio is wild about skincare, but what she’s truly passionate about is making her clients glow inside and out. As a transgendered Latina business owner, Valdez wanted to create an…