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City in the United States
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Del Rio is a city in the Big Bend Country, across the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña in Mexico.
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Del Rio's art center offers changing exhibits in the city's former fire station.
Where you can learn about the history of air power, or, more specifically the USAF, with a small exhibit space.
This recreation area is the major attraction in the Del Rio area, where camping, boating, and fishing are available (the Bassmasters Elite tournament was held here for four years in a row until 2008). At Lake Amistad, visitors can also find 4,000-year-old Indian pictographs, which are accessible only by boat at Panther Cave and at Parida Cave.
In the downtown area offers a wine-tasting of about a dozen of their wines for about $5 per person or a free tasting of only three. Their wines are excellent and range from sweet (notably the San Felipe del Rio red, their Texas Rose, and their Muscat Cannelli) to exceptionally dry (Cabernet Sauvignon), but their port has won awards. Most of their wines are blends with grapes from other vineyards, but one is made of only grapes grown at the winery.
A Mexican restaurant downtown that offers an excellent buffet of Mexican food for a very reasonable price. One item not on the menu is "cabrito" (goat), which you have to ask for and it is excellent, succulent meat, beautifully roasted. Each day the restaurant roasts one goat in the morning and sells it until it runs out. Get there early! Their coffee is great and compares well to Starbucks.
Formerly Todd and Bullett's (TB's) Bar and Grill, Anthony Bourdain of the Travel Channel once came here for their Corona Chicken, which is succulent pieces of chicken about the size of the neck of a Corona bottle filled with cheese and wrapped in bacon.
Has excellent Mexican food and generous portions in a comfortable atmosphere for very reasonable prices. Hours about 6AM to 2:30PM (per many traditional Mexican restaurants).
There is one Thai restaurant, Jitra's, in town with mediocre Thai food.
A bar outside of town toward the Lake, has steak night on Wednesdays 6-8PM. Call ahead to reserve a steak. The steaks are about 3/4 to 1 lb in size, thick cut, wonderful, beautifully seasoned, succulent, and come with a baked potato and salad (only lettuce and dressings) bar for only $13 per person. This is a real meal for meat-and-potato-kind-of-guys. They also have karaoke on Saturday nights.
Probably the classiest place in town and a good place to go for a nice dinner and drinks.
Free high-speed wireless, heated outdoor pool, indoor fitness center.
Offers contemporary art by Del Rio native Adrian Falcon.
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US 277 from Sonora on I-10 (about 80 miles north) or US 90 from San Antonio (about 200 miles east).
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The next nearest major airport for additional scheduled commercial flights is in San Antonio (SAT) located 161 mi (258 km) or 2½ - 3 hr east along US Hwy 90.
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