A Southside San Antonio institution known for feeding customers two-pound tacos on foot-long tortillas has served its last plate. Rolando's Super Tacos at 93 Shasta Ave., which fed people seeking outsized meals for 36 years, now shows up on Google as permanently closed, marking the end of a run that began in 1990.
The shift did not happen overnight. As reported by MySA, the property had already been listed for sale since October 2025 before the restaurant posted a handwritten sign in its window in July 2026 announcing a pause. The sign read: “Valued customers: We apologize for any inconvenience. We will be back soon. God bless us all.” MySA reported that temporary closure at the time, and the outlet says it found the same signage still hanging in the window during a more recent visit.
By August 27, 2026, Google had updated the business listing from temporarily closed to permanently closed. MySA called the restaurant that day and reported that nobody answered, and a site visit turned up no one on the property. The property remains listed by White Label Realty, which is marketing the 2,748-square-foot restaurant building and 0.45-acre lot for $450,000, complete with a 20-to-30-vehicle parking lot, alcohol-sales-approved zoning, and all seller-owned kitchen appliances. The site sits near SW Military Drive with quick access to Interstate 35 and Loop 410.
Decades of Two-Pound Tacos
The Rolando's brand traces back to 1979, when founders Rolando Rodarte and his wife Guillermina opened their first restaurant on Hildebrand Avenue, an idea born from Guillermina's homemade oversized flour tortillas, according to KENS 5. That griddle-made tortilla became the foundation for the chain's 12-inch Super Tacos, including signature builds like the NANDO (carne guisada, bacon, beans, and cheese) and the Caleb (carne guisada, egg, beans, and cheese), which weighed up to two pounds and were priced under $12, per MySA reporting on the restaurant's menu. A single Super Taco was often enough to feed two to four people.
Over its 36-year run on the Southside, the restaurant appeared on KENS 5's Neighborhood Eats and was voted among San Antonio's top Tex-Mex institutions in reader polls, with its carne guisada and house-made salsas drawing particular praise. The Shasta Avenue location and the original Hildebrand Avenue restaurant eventually became separate operations; MySA confirmed the two Rolando's Super Tacos businesses operate independently of one another, and the Hildebrand Avenue location, listed on Grubhub, remains open under its own ownership.
A Six-Figure Business Put Up For Sale
Listing materials from real estate agent Robert A. Diaz described the Shasta Avenue restaurant as a long-standing community staple with a loyal customer base that consistently generated six-figure gross revenues before it was listed. Diaz said the client's presumed goal in selling was to start a new chapter in life. MySA reported that it attempted to reach Diaz for an update on the closure, but no response had been received by publication time.
Listing records from Team Price Real Estate show that as of August 26, 2026, the property had spent 337 cumulative days on the market, with the seller offering owner-financing terms requiring a 50% down payment. The listing covers both the land and the restaurant building, appliances included, for buyers looking to step into a turnkey Tex-Mex operation rather than build one from scratch.
Part Of A Broader Shake-Up In San Antonio Tex-Mex
Rolando's exit adds to a run of turnover among San Antonio's long-running Mexican restaurants over the past two years. Hoodline previously tracked Taco Blvd's Alamo Ranch pullback, and also covered the closure of a longtime Taco Cabana location near the DoSeum. Independent Tex-Mex spots across the city continue to face pressure from real estate sales and rising operating costs, a pattern that has now caught up with another Southside fixture.
Whether a new owner will take over the Shasta Avenue building and revive some version of the Rolando's concept, or whether the space will be repurposed entirely, remains unclear. For now, the sign in the window still promises a return that, as of this week's reporting from MySA, has not come.
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