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According to local lore, the fathers of the nuclear age spent much of their free time cavorting at the Owl Cafe where Frank Chavez and his wife, Dee opened a little bar in the grocery store operated by Dee’s father, JE Miera.
It’s Never This Empty at Lunch HourĬonrad Hilton’s father once owned the saloon in which the bar (pictured below) in the Owl Cafe once held prominence and presumably sold the fruit of the vine whose progenitors may have been among New Mexico’s original grape stocks. While these events are historically significant, they are also inextricably bound by one common element–the uncommonly ordinary facade that houses the extraordinary, world-famous Owl Cafe. San Antonio was also the gateway to the Trinity Site in which the first atomic bomb was detonated in 1945. San Antonio may be but a blip on the map, but its storied and pioneering history make this sparsely populated agricultural community arguably one of New Mexico’s most important towns.In 1629, San Antonio was the site on which Franciscan friars planted the first vineyard (for sacramental wine) in New Mexico (in defiance of Spanish law prohibiting the growing of grapes for wine in the new world.) San Antonio was the birthplace of Conrad Hilton, founder of the ubiquitous Hilton Hotels and more importantly, one of New Mexico’s original legislators after statehood was granted in 1912. What accounts for the Owl’s popularity? It truly is a timeless institution beloved for its consistently excellent burgers.
The World Famous Owl Cafe in San Antonio, New MexicoĢ5 February 2023: Over the past twelve years, the Owl Cafe in San Antonio, New Mexico has been one of the three most frequently launched reviews on Gil’s Thrilling (And Filling) Blog, ranking behind only Mary & Tito’s and the Buckhorn Tavern as the third most frequently launched review of all time.
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