Golden Star Café, The Cookshack: San Antonio’s biggest food stories of the week

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Golden Star Café is located at 821 W. Commerce St.

Celebrations were at the heart of most of the Current‘s most-read food stories this week.

To start, readers couldn’t get enough of the feel-good news that downtown’s Golden Star Café celebrated nearly a century of serving up Chinese, American and Mexican dishes — 90 years, to be exact.

Local chocolatier Susana Mijares had cause to party after bringing home an epic win as a competitor on Food Network’s Halloween Wars. And we offered up details on local Veteran-owned businesses readers could celebrate during National Veterans Small Business Week.

Our most-read stories were rounded out by news of two restaurant openings: Fort Worth-based chicken chain The Cookshack and yet another location of breakfast fave Magnolia Pancake Haus.

Read on for more.

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