Wide Texas sky at sunset over the harvest farm in Palacios, June 2025.

For Buyers · San Antonio

Texas Redfish for San Antonio's destination dining.

River Walk hotel F&B, country-club dining rooms, convention banquets, and Alamo Heights chef tables. Cold-chain from Palacios, about three hours east.

San Antonio's F&B market is anchored by destination dining — River Walk hotel restaurants, multi-outlet resorts, country clubs, and convention-scale banquet operations. That means two things matter above all: banquet-scale consistency, and a menu story that a tourism-city guest wants to hear. Texas State Saltwater Fish, raised in Palacios on Matagorda Bay, is exactly that story.

What San Antonio gets

Consistency at banquet scale, with a Texas-destination story.

01 · Banquet scale

Plate counts, held steady.

A 400-person wedding banquet or a convention dinner is a known-date order planned against our grow-out cohorts. Hand-graded at harvest means fillet specs match across the entire service.

02 · Hotel F&B fit

Multi-outlet, multi-property.

Hotel chains running multiple outlets inside a single property (lobby restaurant, steakhouse, poolside, banquet) or across multiple properties get one standing order, per-outlet carton tagging, and a corporate P.O. that rolls up cleanly.

03 · Menu story

Texas-destination provenance.

Visitors to San Antonio are the biggest audience for a Texas-story fish — the Alamo, the Missions, the River Walk, and on the menu, the Texas State Saltwater Fish raised in Palacios. The menu line writes itself.

04 · Delivery window

Same-day to San Antonio.

Three hours east of the farm. Wednesday-morning harvest can be on a Wednesday-evening banquet plate. Cold-chain direct routes confirm on the first call.

The category context

"If you buy farm-raised red drum at a supermarket or order it at a restaurant anywhere in the U.S., there's a very good chance that it was produced in Texas."

Todd Sink, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Extension (2024)

San Antonio FAQ

What San Antonio buyers ask on the first call.

How far is Turtle Creek from San Antonio?

Approximately 170 miles east, about a three-hour drive via US-59 and I-37. Same-day cold-chain delivery is standard for standing-order accounts.

Do you supply River Walk hotel restaurants?

Yes. River Walk hotel F&B programs are a natural fit — tourism-driven demand, strong destination-menu storytelling, and standing weekly volume for the hotel's multi-outlet dining.

Can you support banquet and convention-scale volume?

Yes. San Antonio's convention and wedding calendar is exactly the kind of known-date order we plan against our grow-out cohorts. Tell us the date, plate count, and portion spec on the first call.

What parts of San Antonio do you serve?

Downtown / River Walk, Pearl, Alamo Heights, Southtown, Stone Oak; New Braunfels, Boerne, and Schertz on the perimeter. Tell us the receiving zip on the first call.

First inquiry

What to tell us on the first call.

No web form in v1. The fastest path is a phone call. If you'd rather email, here's what to include.

  1. Property or business name, and San Antonio location. Zip, neighborhood, receiving dock notes.
  2. Buyer type. Hotel, restaurant, distributor, retailer, broker.
  3. Outlet count, if a hotel. Per-outlet or central receiving.
  4. Expected weekly poundage. Even a rough range.
  5. Banquet / event calendar. Known dates we can plan against.

Call (713) 364-3701

Email Sales@turtlecreek.fish

Hours Daily, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Central

Visit 7474 TX-35 S, Palacios, TX 77465 — by appointment

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