Smoked by AI · South Padre Island
The people.
The chefs and critics and writers whose picks shape the South Padre Island list, grouped by what they do for a living. Every name is a real person with a public track record, and each one appears against a room only where they endorsed that room themselves.
Chefs 1Critics and writers 5
Chefs.
Chefs cook for a living, and a chef who sends you to somebody else's room is putting their own name on it.
- Jack GilmoreChefno picks on this list yet
Southern Tex-Mex and Gulf seafood; the Lower Rio Grande Valley he grew up in.
Critics and writers.
Critics ate the meal, wrote it up under their own name, and the review is linked so you can read it yourself.
- Chet GarnerCreatorno picks on this list yet
Texas small towns and day trips, on PBS and in Texas Highways.
- Eileen MatteiJournalistno picks on this list yet
The Lower Rio Grande Valley, for Texas Highways.
- Joe Nick PatoskiAuthorno picks on this list yet
Texas places, music and the coast, for Texas Highways and Texas Monthly.
- Laurie CokerCriticno picks on this list yet
Restaurants on South Padre Island and in Port Isabel.
- Travis M. WhiteheadCriticno picks on this list yet
Restaurant reviews across the Lower Rio Grande Valley for MyRGV, The Brownsville Herald and The Monitor.