In this latest TasteCast episode, we go clucking crazy for grocery store rotisserie chicken. Read more: https://www.expressnews.com/food/article/Podcast-The-3-best-rotisserie-chickens-from-San-14464214.php

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The 3 best rotisserie chickens from San Antonio grocery stores

In this latest episode of TasteCast, Chuck Blount and Mike Sutter name their seven favorite San Antonio-area burger joints from the first nine months of their 52 Weeks of Burgers series. You’d be surprised what magic people can conjure from just beef, buns and the things they throw on top.

San Antonio’s best burgers (so far)

 We dive deep into our favorite restaurants that have a small, limited menu of one or two things that they do really well. 

Our favorite small-menu restaurants in San Antonio

In the perverse world of Texas’ best barbecue, you lack some street cred if you’re not selling out. Read more: TasteCast on ExpressNews.com

In BBQ, selling out is good

Whose is better: Popeyes’ or Chick-fil-A’s? The sandwich from a local San Antonio spot, and we give you our faves. Read more:

The chicken sandwich war of 2019

The Taste Team talks heat and gives you tips for staying cool through food: the city’s best frozen treats from restaurants, the best frozen treats from the freezer aisle of the grocery store, and the 10 best San Antonio margaritas. Read all about it: https://www.expressnews.com/podcasts/tastecast/

San Antonio’s best frozen treats, margaritas

Chuck Blount opines on the calls for a boycott of Bill Miller Bar-B-Q after Castro’s Trump Tweet. Background reading: https://www.expressnews.com/food/article/Podcast-Politics-and-BBQ-Why-food-boycotts-14300962.php

Politics and BBQ. Why food boycotts don’t work

In the wake of three recent zero-star reviews, the Express-News Taste team explains why they still visit local restaurant institutions. Read more at ExpressNews.com: https://www.expressnews.com/podcasts/tastecast/

The role of the restaurant critic in San Antonio

Avogeddon? Maybe not, but the ups and downs of the avocado supply are the stuff of nightmares for San Antonians. Plus the best things we ate this week.

All avocados all the time

In this TasteCast episode, we talk about Beyond Meat, the veggie burger and sausage brand that is all over social media with folks sharing pics of their grilling exploits. Chuck Blount tried these for his Chuck’s Food Shack column and came away pretty impressed — which, for a hard-core carnivore and cookout expert like him is high praise indeed. 

Beyond Meat is beyond good. Really

We grill and taste our way through those sausages in the grocery case and deliver some pro tips about the knives you should have in your kitchen right now. We’ll get all cowboy and talk about Tejas Steakhouse & Saloon, and we’ll cool off with the Big Swig flavored sparkling water that’s popping up all over the place. 52 Weeks of Burgers explores Frontier Burger, and we celebrate peach season with a clever Italian twist on peach cobbler. For more details on this episode: https://www.expressnews.com/podcasts/tastecast/

Hot links, sharp knives and cowboy steaks

The Express-News Taste team helps you step up your spice rack game with some of the spices that don’t get the love they deserve. We shine fresh light on five salads you shouldn’t miss at San Antonio restaurants. Discover Japanese ramen and other pleasant surprises from Kuriya @ Cherrity Bar on the city’s near East Side, then into burger and beer mode at Blue Star Brewing Co. Open up some canned white wine from Texas with us, and we’ll tell you about a cool Korean spot in an unassuming office building.  https://www.expressnews.com/podcasts/tastecast/

Spice salvation, super salads and slurping ramen

This week on TasteCast, we’re gearing up for July Fourth with burgers and dogs cooked low and slow on a smoker instead of the grill. And for fans of the noble grape, we explore ways to incorporate it into your cooking plans. We’ll also hear what restaurant critic Mike Sutter has to say about CoCo Bongo Cocina & Bar — and it’s a doozy, folks — as well as the latest burger report from Charlie Brown’s. We’ll head into the kitchen with a fun new vegetable cookbook, and whip up a frosty cocktail that will appeal to your inner 8-year-old.

Hamburger Independence Day

We talk about how to cook with floral syrups - not just drink them - and we give you the list of the top 5 dishes we ate this month. Also, why Silo Terrace Oyster Bar is the best seafood restaurant in San Antonio, and all the good to be found at Big’z Burger Joint. We tell you about the Friday fried chicken special we’re obsessed with, how to boost your potato salad game, and we get all ranty about vampires, aka - mosquitoes on restaurant patios. 

Oysters, Fish & Vampire Mosquitoes

Today we talk about what to get dad for Father’s day and San Antonio’s Tiger Woods of brisket trimming. We talk about the zero-star review for the Grey Moss Inn Restaurant, taste test some crunchy veggie snacks Paul picked I suspect as torture and well tell you about all the good that awaits you at Filé’s Burgers on the West Side. We also tell you about a new line of cheeses meant to go on your grill, how to bring some global favors to you potato salad this summer and we get all ranty about the role of restaurant reviewers. And by we, I mean Mike Sutter.

What Is the Role of a Food Critic?

The Express-News team of Chuck Blount, Paul Stephen, Mike Sutter & Emily Spicer share what’s new in San Antonio food.

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