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Check out San Antonio’s newest restaurants and featured eateries with this roundup of dining news from previous Community Impact reporting over the past week.
Impacts of the week
Max's Sister restaurant now serving French cuisine and more in San Antonio
The new restaurant serves up a mix of American and French-inspired cuisine, from chicken-fried steak to pan-roasted Branzino. There’s also a full cocktail bar, espresso bar and bread service available at the high-end restaurant.
Dual-branded Marble Slab Creamery opens in Boerne development
The new co-branded Great American Cookies and Marble Slab Creamery offers both specialty ice cream and customizable gourmet cookies and cookie cakes.
Austin-based Terry Black’s Barbecue to open New Braunfels location
This barbecue spot is coming soon to the city, serving up sliced brisket, beef ribs, pork ribs, sausage and more.
New Mexican restaurant coming soon to Universal City
Frank's Pollo Asado Los Norteños is coming soon, offering specialty pollo asado dishes and classic Tex-Mex staples. The menu features fajitas, hamburgers and Mexican desserts such as tres leches.
Dining spotlight
Crepeccino Café & Creperie brings sweet and savory European flavors to Cibolo
Bara Ekhlayel said he has always been enamored with the café culture found throughout Europe.
“Especially the way cafés serve as gathering places, not just somewhere to eat,” Ekhlayel said in an email to Community Impact.
How we got here
In 2018, Ekhlayel said he put his entrepreneurial skills to the test by opening his own café called Crepeccino Cafe & Creperie in the Medical Center area of Northwest San Antonio.
Step into the cheese world at Otto’s Cheese Shop in New Braunfels
Bob and Rachel Pineda have been cheese connoisseurs in New Braunfels since they first debuted their local store, Otto's Cheese Shop, in 2021.
Since then, the pair have already outgrown their original location off of Landa Street—moving into a larger, more event-friendly space in May 2025.
“We were really small to start with, but we kept getting asked about classes and events, and it was really hard to do in that [old] space,” Rachel Pineda told Community Impact.
What’s changed
The shop—now located at 2345 Loop 337, Ste. 100—has the ability to host public and private events, classes, dinners and more, all focused on cheese.
