Zorba's Greek Mediterranean Cuisine has closed for good after 18 years feeding the Castle Hills community along NW Military Highway. The restaurant announced on Friday that it had served its final customers, closing out nearly two decades at 2110 NW Military Hwy inside the Copper Crest Village strip center.
“After 18 years of serving our community, we are happy to announce that we have flipped our sign to closed for the last time,” the restaurant wrote in a Friday Facebook post announcing the shutdown. The announcement drew an outpouring of farewell messages from longtime regulars, and Castle Hills Mayor JR Trevino was among those who responded to mark the restaurant's closure. As CultureMap San Antonio reported, the restaurant gave no specific reason for shutting its doors.
Zorba's opened in June 2008 and was run as a family operation by owner Ahmad Al-dmour, whose Jordanian family shaped the menu throughout its run. While marketed primarily as a Greek eatery, the kitchen used kosher meat and pulled from broader Levant and Middle Eastern traditions, serving chicken shawarma, fried kibbeh, tabbouli, and fattoush alongside gyros and spanakopita, according to reporting from the San Antonio Current. CultureMap's farewell piece described a dining room decorated with photos of Santorini on the walls, and noted the restaurant was especially known for its baba ghanouj and gyros, offered with a lamb-and-beef combination or a vegetarian eggplant option.
A Neighborhood Value Spot Until the End
In the months before closing, Zorba's operated six days a week, taking Tuesdays off, and kept a $9.95 weekday lunch special that included an entree and a free beverage for dine-in customers. That kind of everyday value pricing helped the restaurant maintain steady foot traffic in a corridor where it had long been a fixture. CultureMap's coverage noted the restaurant had received limited media attention over the years despite its longevity, making it something of a hidden gem for those who knew to look for it.
Zorba's sat in Castle Hills, a 2.5-square-mile enclave incorporated in 1951 and landlocked entirely within San Antonio, home to more than 4,200 residents and over 600 small to medium businesses. The city maintains its own independent city council, police department, and fire department, and NW Military Highway functions as its central commercial backbone. That stretch has long been recognized as Castle Hills' culinary corridor, hosting a concentration of acclaimed independent restaurants including James Beard finalist Clementine, Sushihana, Bilia Eatery, and Azro Moroccan & Mediterranean Bistro, according to the San Antonio Current.
A Corridor in Flux
The commercial dynamics along that same stretch have shifted in other ways too. As Hoodline reported this week in a look at the corridor's changing tenant mix, a quarter-mile stretch of NW Military Highway now features three separate Thai restaurants — Flying Tiger Thai, Thai Topaz, and Thai Bird — illustrating how culinary density in Castle Hills tends to cluster around specific ethnic dining categories as storefronts turn over.
Zorba's exit also fits into a broader wave of longtime independent San Antonio restaurant closures in 2026. The 73-year-old Barn Door Steakhouse in Alamo Heights closed permanently after Mother's Day, a shutdown that CultureMap San Antonio tied to rising operating costs and landlord changes pressuring several decade-old establishments across Bexar County.
Greek Dining Options Remain in San Antonio
Even with Zorba's gone, San Antonio's Mediterranean and Greek dining scene retains some deep roots. Demo's Greek Food has operated since 1979, and Mina & Dimi's Greek House has been serving the city since 1993, relocating to an expanded suite along US-90 in 2024 after 30 years in business, according to the San Antonio Express-News. Those institutions, along with the dense mix of Mediterranean, Asian, and upscale American eateries still lining NW Military Highway, mean Castle Hills diners have not lost their options entirely — even as one of the corridor's longest-running family-run spots has flipped its sign for the last time.
