One other classic San Antonio steakhouse has folded up its checkered tablecloths. The Hungry Farmer Steakhouse at 7015 I-35 Entry Rd. has closed following the late September dying of its final remaining founder, Jack Garrahan.
Garrahan’s granddaughter, Madison Dunn, introduced the closure by way of a TikTok video.
“Closing the doorways on the Hungry Farmer,” wrote Dunn within the caption. “So proud and ceaselessly grateful to my grandparents for creating one thing so extremely particular and legendary. This was a spot crammed with love, recollections, and so many tales, and it’ll ceaselessly maintain a particular place in my coronary heart.”
Garrahan, alongside together with his spouse Verlene and brother Richard, based the restaurant in 1967. It was the kind of steakhouse as soon as frequent all through Texas, providing reasonably priced meat-and-potatoes meals in a no-frills atmosphere — and a bit Western kitsch.
The environment was pure Texana, mixing tin promoting indicators with license plates, a bright-red toy tractor, and painted by hand indicators selling its lunch t-bone specials. Close to the checkout, apothecary jars have been crammed with nostalgic candies.
Jack and Verlene took on sole possession following Richard’s passing, later opening different places. The couple remained dedicated to it for the remainder of their lives, based on Jack’s obituary.
“The restaurant was way more than a enterprise to Jack — it was one among his nice passions,” learn the discover. “He cherished the work, the folks he met, and the various friendships and relationships he shaped all through the years.”
The Hungry Farmer’s closure follows the lack of one other legacy steakhouse that was in a lot the identical vein. The Bar Door served its final plate on Might 10, following greater than 70 years in enterprise.
