I’m an award-winning writer who contributes regularly to San Antonio Magazine, and my work has appeared in Bon Appétit, Epicurious, Texas Highways, and First We Feast.
I published a guidebook, San Antonio’s Best Restaurants in 2017. Before that, I wrote for the San Antonio Express-News on assignments that included metro columnist, food writer and restaurant critic, and a year as Food & Drink Editor. My food writing has been published in Thrillist, Eater, First We Feast and Epicurious, while an essay about the Alamo and Mexican American identity was published in “American Voices: Culture and Community,” a college textbook.
I served as restaurant critic and food editor at the San Antonio Express-News, and also also wrote the paper’s “Around the Town” column. My journalism career includes stops at the Chicago Tribune, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Corpus Christi Caller-Times.
Born in El Paso, baptized in San Antonio and raised in Houston, I earned a bachelor’s in philosophy from Harvard, and a master’s degree from the Columbia School of Journalism.
I was baptized at St. Ann’s and proudly embrace my San Antonio roots. I’m an alumnus of Leadership San Antonio and the Alexander Briseño Leadership Development Program, a former board member of the Harvard Alumni Association, and a former President of the Harvard Club of San Antonio.
I currently serve as Director of Marketing & Communications for Keystone School, the city’s top-rated college prep school. I live in San Antonio with my wife, Lupita, and our teenage son, Andrés.