When I'm in a new city I like to see what's unique about them - the murals of San Angelo are one of…read morethose things! I like that there is a tribute to the Air Force base, so if you like to understand the history and or economy of the town, go check out the murals then go grab lunch, coffee or a beer to support one of the local business nearby! There are two other murals located next to where this picture is taken, the three murals represent Historic Fort Concho, the San Angelo Army Field, and Goodfellow Air Force Base. These are only a few of the murals located in San Angelo, you can take a tour guided by your cell phone to see all of them!

The Historic Murals of San Angelo didn't have a page so I just looked them up and put their info…read moreup. I went for a walking tour with the kids and learned alot about the history there. They had a cell phone tour set up that you can call Free at (325) 201-9037. The kids thought it was a treasure hunt and I thought it was a good family bonding and give them knowledge about the history/culture. It's fun on the cheap for the whole family and I recommend it.

The location is maybe not the best, but the dining experience, with James as my waiter? It was…read moreawesome! The dish I had was superbly cooked, I enjoyed their "carciofi"! And it was delicious, from the noodles, to the chicken, to the sauce, even the artichokes... They were awesome! The only thing I might change would be the bread. But bread is an easy thing to substitute. Along with my meal, I had a glass of red wine, and for dessert I experienced their tiramisu. With James, the service was awesome! He was attentive, checked on me regularly, but didn't rush me. And, he had great advice on the foods to try and check out! The lobby where I was seated was almost empty when I arrived, as I came early... Around 6:30 PM. The large table was just leaving, leaving me to the dining area by myself. When I asked about it, James was kind enough to explain to me that many of the people were in the other two rooms where they had private parties going on. James was always there to make sure my needs were taken care of. He advised me on the best tasting wine, the various meals that were very popular, and made sure that I had everything I needed. The music atmosphere was not Italian, but rather something of the 60s, making me think I had gone back in time. Likewise, the prices were preferably affordable, priced much like in the 60s! In other words, I didn't pay an arm and a leg for my meal. It was well priced! AND the food was well worth it! I will dine here again! P. S. ... and I will insist on my waiter being "James"! After querying him I found he walked to the restaurant that day ... you could never tell it by his dress, and his kind demeanor, but I'm guessing that he's starting life over again. When I asked for his phone number to send him the link for this review, he said he didn't have a phone. So when you dine here, make sure that you ask for James to be your waiter, and tip him well! He works hard to make sure that you have a splendid visit, and you're ever need is taken care of. People like this need to be lifted up, and rewarded for their excellent service!

This place is the best of San Angelo. We recently moved back (I moved away in mid-80's). My parents…read morehad been mentioning this place and we went last night. Everything was wonderful! Tablecloths but not stuffy atmosphere and definitely not crazy prices. Food was lovely in presentation and taste. Seating was nicely spread apart so we could have a conversation. The bar is gorgeous and we may come back to just have a nice happy hour spot that is a bit more intimate. The service was on top of everything. We had several people taking care of us and it seemed very intentional. They knew what the other was doing. We had a lovely conversation with the brother of the owner who explained why we love this place so much - they are related to restaurants in the Dallas area that we absolutely love! This is the best restaurant that we have found in San Angelo. We will be back.

NEWS RELEASE: The 19th Annual West Texas Bridal Showcase…read moreGetting Married? We'll show you how to do it... Where to have it... Everything you'll need to do it... Even what to wear to it! Sunday, January 31, 2010 11:00 a.m. - Noon Pre-Tent Party by Marquee Event Group Doors Open Noon - 6:00p.m. San Angelo McNease Convention Center 500 Rio Concho Dr. San Angelo, TX 76903 Tickets are $10.00 at the door or can be purchased at Papel Stationery at the Shops at Stadium Park 1913 Knickerbocker Rd. or at www.SanAngeloWeddings.com. Bring 10 cans of nonperishable food for the Concho Valley Regional Food Bank and receive an additional raffle ticket - NO LIMIT!!! Bring 100 cans and get 10 extra raffle tickets! The biggest show ever in West Texas with over $40,000 in trips and prize give-a-ways including Roundtrip Airline tickets on American Airlines and a 5 night 6 day stay at the Sheraton Hacienda del Mar Resort in Cabo San Lucas. The first 2,000 that come through the door will receive a deluxe Eco Friendly tote bag full of promotional items. We want to thank our sponsors for making this event possible: SanAngeloWeddings.com, American Airlines, Wal-Mart, KIXY & Foster Communications, the Sheraton Hacienda del Mar Resort, KIDY Fox TV San Angelo, KXVA Fox TV Abilene, American Classified, Conexion Hispana, the San Angelo McNease Convention Center, Halfmann's Cake Cottage, Sam's Club, Shannon Medical Center, Marquee Event Group, Ceiba del Mar Beach and Spa Resort, San Angelo Community Medical Center, Celebracioines Bellas, Serita Fawn Calligraphy & Engraving, GoSanAngelo.com/San Angelo Standard Times, Holland's Jewelry, Slaydon & Page Private Jewelers, Cano's Diamonds, A Regal Affair, and Ardyss International. Seminars will be held throughout the day featuring national renowned speakers offering great ideas for your big event. The Fashion Show will include Jackson's, J. Wilde's, Patti's Party, Al's Formal Wear, Korona's Formals, Sunset Mall, University Bridal, and Mary's Bridal. The traditional wedding fashion show will be from 2:00-3:00p.m. and the "New" Latin wedding/quincenera fashion show from 4:00-5:00p.m. What Every Bride Should Know... About the West Texas Bridal Showcase Expo This is the best day to meet face to face with West Texas' top wedding vendors. See in person all they have to offer, including samples of their designs, photos, displays and new ideas to make your wedding special, various styles of photography, and as we say, "everything from the garter to the getaway" will be under one roof during the one day show. Why Should You Attend? Brides, grooms, quinceneras, and their families can save time, gas, energy, confusion and money by attending the West Texas Bridal Showcase. Shopping for all your wedding needs at this show eliminates the dreaded phone tag, excess effort in trying to get an appointment with a wedding vendor and complicated voice mails. Even email messages are time consuming and delay the immediate response a bride wants and needs. Brides for over 18 years have found that attending this bridal event skips all those wasted steps because they will be meeting the key personnel of each participating company on the show floor. How Can You Save Money? Each participating vendor will be offering prices during the show. Bridal couples will benefit from the wealth of competition at this West Texas event. This in turn creates the best values for the services and products that are offered. Couples are encouraged to comparison shop and come prepared with "budget zones" for each category of products or services they would like to incorporate into their wedding plans. Some of the vendors will offer special "show prices" or discounts for immediate bookings.

Can't believe it took me so long to come in here and see what it's all about. Wife and son and I…read morecame in for dinner on Monday night at 530 for dinner. Not slammed or busy. Quick service, kind service, fast ordering and short time for food to hit the table. Even got to talk to the owner of 21 years Chef Nino. What a great guy! What amazing food! The Chicken Cacciatore is fantastic. One of my all time favorite Italian dishes and they nail it. The bread bits and house made marinara are spot on as well. My wife loves her Joe's salad and raved about the house dressing. My son crushed what he could of the lasagna and ate the rest later on that night. I can't wait to come back for a lunch special now. Prices are great for the portions as well.

"WE LOVE ITALIANLICOUSNESS"…read more My Wife and I LOVE Italian Food at Home or going out to eat, but since we don't have our Kitchen totally back (as yet, but close) we went out. Going to "Joe's Italian Restaurant" that creates all their Sauces, Breads and other goodies Fresh every day. Arrived at around 5:30pm or so, were greeted and shown to a table for two. We ordered waters to start while looking over the menu and enjoying a Basket of their Fresh Signature Garlic Rolls, which are shaped like a bagel (or donuts) and are Very Garlickylicious - love the Marinara Sauce. We took some time trying to decide what to order because everything we have had here has been Italianliciousness at it's Finest - Joe's knows how to Italian. When our server returned we ordered. My Wife is having their "Eggplant Rollatini"; Stuffed with Ricotta Cheese & Spinach, comes with Spaghetti and Sauce - also ordered a 'Tossed Salad'; Lettuce, Cabbage, Tomato, Cucumber with House Italian Dressing. I am having the ""Beef Tortellini"; with Alfredo Sauce (other choice was Meat Sauce), also a Tossed Salad with Ranch Dressing. We debated on ordering a Pizza but will wait until next time. While we waited for our food we enjoyed those Garlic Rolls. They are loaded with Garlic and that Marinara Sauce is Marinaraliciousness. Soon the basket of Garlic Rolls was empty and our Server (forgot her name - me bad) brought us another basket & marinara sauce. The second basket was half gone when our Salads arrived - served in a bowl with a large container of dressing on the side. The Salad is Fresh, Cold, Crisp and Delicious. My Wife really liked their House Italian Dressing and the Ranch is really creamy and flavorful - nicely done Joe (he moved to Dallas but the Chef in the kitchen is continuing his deliciousness). Soon our main Entrees arrived and both dishes look amazinglylicious. Joe's Italian cares about what they serve and they are meticulous on how every dish is presented - their Presentation of Deliciousness is Spot-On. It tells the customer that their Dish is Delicious before they even try it - and they want to come back. We have been to Joe's several times and every time it's been some of the Best Italian we have had - and we eat a lot of Italian - Joe's does it right. My Wife's Eggplant Rollatini is Huge and stuffed with a lot of Spinach & Ricotta - and she absolutely LOVED every bite she had. She said it was Uniquely Creativeliciousness (or something like that) and LOVED it. I tried it and she's right - it was Uniquelylicious (or something like that). I also had some of her Spaghetti and it was prepared perfectly. My 'Beef Tortellini' was Creamylicious with lots of Beef stuffed Tortellini - and served Hot from the Kitchen. I ate all of mine, except for a bite I gave to my Wife and she said it was Delicious. My Wife took some of hers home for another day - and also one of their Garlic Rolls. We both are stuffed and wanting to come back for more of their Creativeliciousness that you only get at Joe's Italian Restaurant. Our Server earned the "Dollar-Bow-Tie" Award (wish I remembered her name) as all the Servers here have - as well as a nice tip. When you are in San Angelo, Joe's Italian Restaurant is a Must Stop - On the way out we enjoyed visiting with the owner, Nino, and he told us how they make everything fresh every day. When you visit Joe's, you experience Italianlicousness with whatever you order - they do it right. On the way home my Wife and I enjoyed another Beautiful San Angelo West Texas Early Evening - and she stated 'I want to go back to Joes'. We will baby, we will - and soon. For now, just shout out to everyone on how you really feel about Joe's Italian Restaurant. When we arrived home, she did just that - shouting out to everyone on how Delicious "Joe's Italian Restaurant' is - Check out Joe's on Facebook - "Joe's Italian Restaurant" - and On-Line.

This is a trilingual area. Great for wedding. Everything else is not good…read more Everything takes three times as long to get to. The steps are for giants. Don't say I didn't warn you. Close to Del Rio. But best of luck. Watch your wallet and watch your sanity. It does get hot out here. Don't ever forget to fill up on gas before leaving Or coming back to town. (And if you do call the tow truck company.) You might say it was better when I got here as there were a lot of beautiful kittens everywhere. The next time I came back they were all gone except a few. It could be worth coming out here. I'm giving it a three star for the chamber of commerce library Parker Lumber and more. Likely a four star town if pot holes were filled. If you're here then maybe you are a giant. Happy Halloween, (2023)

A dump of a dilapidated town. This is a speed trap, do not say I did not warn you. Within one week…read morewe got pulled over during our lunch break and everybody id'd. Boss got a ticket few days later. Oh well I just don't break the law and follow their speed limits right? Well driving down the main section of Road, 30 miles per hour is pretty much a very low speed limit considering there is nothing in this town that would impede a traffic or any safety-wise but oh well it is what it is. You will not find a Walmart here, nor a movie theater but you will find a handful of restaurants, about 10 of them in fact. This town is like one tornado away from Total abandonment probably.

Update! The last takeout meal we ordered was the best yet. I had a Caesar salad that was…read moreamazing--not traditional, exactly, but delicious. Cold iceberg lettuce, plenty of dressing (no dinky cups needed) with great little croutons. Made in house? It was that delicious, and grated cheese on top (either Gouda or Mozzarella, but definitely mild and delicious. I'm hungry all over again. I ordered a combo with Canneloni, Ziti and Manicotti, cheesy and delicious as all their food. The best thing was the rolls (complimentary) which were better than ever. Soft and yeasty, buttered and beautifully dusty with Parmesan and garlic. I'm now officially starving! I'm sure we got tiramisu. It's terrific. I've never had a bad meal there, but this was exceptional. These folks are wonderful--and we've seen their kids grow up here. Practically the most wonderful thing of all was the absolutely professional, polished, and polite voice taking our phone order...the little girl who grew up into a polished and terrific young woman. Bravo!

The service- we had the server Lauren and she was great. Very friendly and helpful…read more The ambiance- we came and it was dead but the decor is nice. Food was sooooooo good and homemade. We tried the stuffed mushrooms and had a pizza as appetizers. All entrees come with a salad and bread. I ordered the shrimp fettuccine and it was so creamy. Not dry or oily. I loved it. It's a good size portions.

AMAZING HOMEMADE TORTILLAS! Need I say more?!…read more If you're craving some good Mexican food, just swing in. The owner is a kind soul who sits at the bar and the environment is all the small town you'll need. They will wrap you into comfortable local conversation, with some homestyle authentic Mexican food to match. Breakfast, lunch, dinner.....I've tried it all, and It's good enough that I needed to come here and write about it.

The whole restaurant looks tacky and run down, but that's not the worst part. I got in there and…read morethe nicest waitress, Jessica, was helping me check out my to-go order. I had ordered extra shrimp with my Josie's special, and the owner, Pati, pops her head around the corner and instructs Jessica to charge me 4 whole dollars for 4 extra pieces of shrimp. Are you kidding me? Not only did they over charge me, Pati was incredibly rude to her waitress. I have worked in food service before and you can tell a restaurant is bad by how they treat their waitresses. So after all that, I took my food home and upon opening it- they did in fact give me more shrimp, but used less chicken and beef. I was angry. I mean they overcharged me for 4 measly pieces of shrimp to cut corners and use less meat. I wouldn't recommend going here. They are ridiculous.