Either I-10 or just simply 10. As others have said, be very careful on 10 through Houston.

 

Its 7:02 am est here now and ya'll are making me HUNGRYY! When you get to the keys, you gotta try the conch fritters and the green turtle soup.. You can even buy a few cans os soup to bring back with you...but its not as good as BBQ IMO.

 

Yeah, drop the "The". That's very LA.

 

Knutson Boltz
I have never eaten Conch or turtles
might be good

 

Coopers has become just so-so lately, trying to live on it's reputation. If you are going through San Antonio on I-10, Blanco BBQ is pretty good stuff. It is in a rather subdivsiony area but don't let that fool you, and not too far off the interstate.
Also I agree about I-10 through Houston, jeez what a mess all the way into Louisiana.

 

How is Grady's BBQ in San Antonio? Ate at the Fredericksburg Road location many times in the 1970's and it was always good. Going back to SA in July and want some good south Texas BBQ and Mexican food. Is La Fogata still good?

 

Yes we eat at Grady's regularly, it is fine, not the best but very worthy of the name BBQ. La Fogata was kind of just okay last time we were there about a month ago.

 

The Salt Lick is a little out of your way but it's a very unique dining experience .The BBQ is different than any other I've tried and everything I ate there was excellent .I highly recommend going by there . You can look them up on the web for directions and more info .

 

A soulless chain.

The original Rudy's was in a old type Tin-barn on I-10 (some of us Texans call it I-10) between the 550 and 555 exit. They served the best brisket and creamed corn you could find.

To this day, all of the Rudy's staff will ask you if you are "military" to make sure you get your 10% discount.

They started in SA, Tx and have several of them in the area but have expanded in other parts of Texas, Colorado and NM it seems.

I used to take my classes at Camp Bullis there for lunch on the final day of class.

BTW - the original Rudy's was right next door the the original "Macaroni's" - that is also now a chain. Neither one of them survived the 15 foot wall of water from the 100 year flood in the late 90's.

 

thanks to all who responded I have printed this and will take it along with us