Chef Luis Colón plans to breathe new life into the River Walk staple with a creative and updated menu. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX SanAntonioFood SanAntonioRestaurants RiverWalk
Colón — known for his work at shuttered Olmos Park eatery Folc — plans to breathe new life into the iconic downtown restaurant with a creative menu, cocktails and expanded riverfront seating, the daily reports. It’s set to reopen Wednesday, Oct. 5.bills the Fig Tree's revamped menu as a"streamlined foray into French inspiration” that features local ingredients and practiced technique.
Before a fire closed Colón’s Folc in 2016, the eatery racked up copious critical praise, including from, which declared the Folc Burger the best in the state. The chef's career also includes stints at Biga on the Banks, Ambler Texas Kitchen + Cocktails and the now-shuttered Bexar Pub. The first iteration of the Fig Tree closed in 2020, a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. The high-end restaurant offered traditional dishes popular in the 1950s and 1960s such as beef Wellington and baked Alaska. Though the food had a reputation for lagging behind the times, it was long considered a River Walk staple.
The new Fig Tree is open for dinner 4-9 p.m. Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday, and 4-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Plans to add Saturday and Sunday brunch — as well as Tuesday hours — are in the works, the
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