Jacala, one of San Antonio’s oldest restaurants, went up in flames early Thursday morning, the damage so extreme fire officials deemed it a total loss. The West Side Tex-Mex institution opened in 1949 ...

For 68 years, Richard Galvan served as an employee at Jacala Mexican Restaurant, which had its own 73-year run in San Antonio before a fire destroyed the business in 2022. Galvan died at age 86 on ...

Update, noon: A few hours after the fire was reported, Jacala's social media pages posted a Facebook Live showing fire crews still working the scene. Cynthia Lambert, who runs the family restaurant ...

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It was heartbreaking to see Jacala Mexican Restaurant destroyed by fire. It has long been a fixture in my neighborhood. Seeing up close the total destruction wrought by the fire and the restaurant ...

SAN ANTONIO – Even as firefighters were trying to put out stubborn hot spots in what was left of a still smoldering Jacala Mexican restaurant, Cynthia Lambert, one of its co-owners, had reason to hope ...

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For 68 years, Richard Galvan served as an employee at Jacala Mexican Restaurant, which had its own 73-year run in San Antonio before a fire destroyed the business in 2022. Galvan died at age 86 on ...