Restaurants in Kerrville

The customizable menu at the northwest San Antonio salad supplier allows you to design a personalized crunchy creation to satisfy your noshing needs. All of Salad Creations’ fresh ingredients are delivered by a fleet of benevolent produce-gathering bluebirds almost every day, and are thrown together to order by the skillful salad sorcerers under your masterful direction. Choose a junior creation (starting at $4.99) and top your fresh lettuce mix with up to four “throw ins,” or quell insatiable salad cravings with a full creation (starting at $7.49) for unlimited access to all of the salad emporium’s offerings, excluding proteins ($2.50 and up). Color a fresh spinach mix with black olives, red onions, and green bell peppers, or gussy up a bowl of chopped romaine with artichoke hearts, chickpeas, and sunflower seeds. For a protein-packed salad, add a sprinkling of barbecue chicken ($2.50) or wild Alaskan salmon ($3.50), and top off your crunchy concoction with one of more than 15 varieties of dressings, most of which are exclusive Salad Creations creations.

In 2006, New Orleans native Bernard McGraw stood in an airport with a decision to make—what city to call home. Then-Mayor Phil Hardberger professed on a nearby television that Hurricane Katrina victims were welcome in San Antonio. McGraw had lost virtually everything in the storm, but not his passion for Cajun cooking. So he boarded the plane in search of a new kitchen and a new path. Mcgraw’s story, originally run by the Southside Reporter, has a happy ending.

Bernard now runs his own restaurant out of Baptist University of the Americas. In addition to providing food service to the student body, teachers, and feral university mascots, he has eight tables set aside for his own New Orleans–style Cajun and creole cuisine. Homestyle sides of collard greens and mac ‘n’ cheese give the assist to spicy gumbo, golden fried catfish, and stuffed po’ boys. Diners can also enjoy a live jazz band on Thursdays and indulge in such housemade desserts as apple pie, sweet-potato pie, and pictures of pi cut from discarded textbooks.