2025 Centurion Award winner
Mi Tierra Café y Panadería
Best Mexican Restaurant in San Antonio · San Antonio, TX
Best Mexican Restaurant in San Antonio · San Antonio, TX
Mi Tierra Café y Panadería has glittered in San Antonio's Market Square since 1941, when Pedro "Pete" and Cruz Cortez opened a three-table café for early-morning market workers. It never closes — 24 hours a day it serves enchiladas and pan dulce beneath thousands of lights and a mural of Mexican-American heroes, while mariachis stroll the aisles.
Run by the Cortez family for three generations, this dazzling landmark is the 2025 Centurion Award winner in San Antonio.
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Selection is by the published criteria, evaluated on public evidence. Mi Tierra Café y Panadería cleared every one.
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Market Square landmark founded by Pete and Cruz Cortez in 1941, open 24 hours with mariachis, Tex-Mex classics, and a legendary panadería.
Yes — Mi Tierra Café y Panadería is the 2025 Centurion Award winner for Best Mexican Restaurant in San Antonio, a verified, criteria-based award. Named best Mexican restaurant in San Antonio for 2025 for 85 years of the Cortez family's around-the-clock kitchen, mariachis, and a pan dulce counter that never sleeps.
Mi Tierra Café y Panadería is in San Antonio, TX.
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