From Garden & Gun

This week, San Antonio’s popular Pearl neighborhood, known for its historic brewery structures, award-winning hotel, and a Culinary Institute of America campus, is growing its wingspan with the long-awaited opening of the restaurant Carriqui.

Named for the South Texas green jay or carriquí (KHER-ih-key) de montaña, a colorful bird that calls the region home, the restaurant draws inspiration from its flight path, which extends from the Rio Grande Valley to the Texas coast and north to San Antonio. Dishes from the executive chef Jaime Gonzales pull from South Texas foodways, including fresh Gulf ceviche, botana platters (large plates filled with cheese, meat, and more), and barbacoa and brisket cooked on custom Texas pits. Ice-cold margaritas with house-made chile salt and cocktails such as the Sage Brush and the Spanish Rose Gin and Tonic add to the venue’s deeply rooted sense of place.

From Texas Monthly

In the classic metaphysical thought experiment known as the Ship of Theseus, a wooden vessel has its planks replaced one by one as they wear out, and the question is whether the end product is the same boat—and if not, at what point it became a new one. The same could be asked of the San Antonio building that sits at the corner of Avenue A and Grayson Street just north of downtown and that, beginning in September, will be the home of a wildly ambitious new restaurant, eight years in the making, called Carriqui.

From San Antonio Express-News

In the classic metaphysical thought experiment known as the Ship of Theseus, a wooden vessel has its planks replaced one by one as they wear out, and the question is whether the end product is the same boat—and if not, at what point it became a new one. The same could be asked of the San Antonio building that sits at the corner of Avenue A and Grayson Street just north of downtown and that, beginning in September, will be the home of a wildly ambitious new restaurant, eight years in the making, called Carriqui.

From San Antonio Report

There’s something familiar about the newest restaurant at the Pearl.

Painstakingly restored and expanded to include a massive kitchen, custom smokehouse and outdoor patios, the century-old Boehler’s House has a new address down the block, a new name and a gleaming storefront.

Yet it feels a lot like an old friend you haven’t seen in years — and given the time it took to relocate and renovate, in some ways it is.

From Culture Map San Antonio

The first of Pearl's big reveals this year, Carriqui will open at 239 E. Grayson St. on September 2. Locals are already abuzz about chef Jaime Gonzalez's menu, which is dedicated to South Texas favorites like coastal seafood, botana platters, barbacoa, and brisket.

From San Antonio Current

San Antonio's highly anticipated restaurant Carriqui now has an opening date: Friday, Sept. 2.

That's when the new restaurant — focused on South Texas cuisine — will begin offering lunch and dinner service inside the historic Pearl-area building that once housed Liberty Bar and Boehler’s Liberty Saloon. It's located at 239 E. Grayson St.

From Texas Monthly

Although it doesn’t open until September 2, Carriqui, one of several new restaurants debuting at the Pearl complex next month, already has a storied past. The space is centered around a wooden house that was built in 1890 for German brewmaster Fritz Boehler, who ran it as a biergarten, saloon, boarding house, and general store, serving many employees of the nearby Pearl Brewery. A century later, it was known both as the home of the beloved Liberty Bar as well as the building with the distinct slant that it had developed over the years. In 2014, several years after the Liberty moved to its current location in King William Historic District, Silver Ventures, which had successfully developed the Pearl area, bought the building and began an ambitious rehabilitation and renovation that would stretch over eight years.

From KSAT.com

The newest restaurant concept at the Pearl finally has a set opening date — Sept 2. Carriqui, pronounced KHER-ih-key, is an 11,000-square-foot restaurant that will have room to seat 380 guests.

From My San Antonio

After years of planning and construction, Carriqui is ready to take flight at Pearl. The 11,000-square-foot restaurant housed in the historic Boehler building is scheduled to open in September.