Carriqui opened in fall 2022, offering up South Texas cuisine from a historic San Antonio building.
SAN ANTONIO — Carriqui, the Pearl restaurant offering up South Texas cuisine since its 2022 debut, will close later this month just three years after serving its first customers inside a historic Alamo City building.
The eatery will “close permanently” after Oct. 19, according to a spokesperson. Michael Joergensen, chief marketing officer of Silver Ventures, said the San Antonio-based firm was helping Carriqui employees “in transitioning to new roles within the Pearl’s ecosystem.”
Details about the reasoning behind the closure weren’t provided.
Located at 239 East Grayson St. inside the historic Boehler’s Liberty Saloon, built over a century ago, Carriqui offered fare like brisket mole, wagyu cooked in custom-forged barbecue pits and special Carriqui nacho dishes. Planning for its opening took some heavy lifting—literally.
According to a 2022 Texas Monthly story on the effort, construction crews worked to lift and move the building a block away, so it would be closer to crowds visiting the Pearl—a relocation effort involving “all kinds of hydraulic jacks, massive steel beams, tractor-trailer wheels, shims and blocks, and the equivalent of a land-mounted tugboat,” according to the project’s design and construction manager.
Plans for the building are unclear as of now, but Silver Ventures says it will share updates “in the near future.”