Best Chicken Parm in San Antonio, TX

Chicken parm in San Antonio, TX: our top picks

San Antonio’s Italian story is older than most visitors guess. Italian immigrants began arriving in the 1870s, and by 1890 several families had built a neighborhood northwest of downtown and chartered the Christopher Columbus Italian Society. Their church, San Francesco di Paola, was dedicated on May 1, 1927, on what is now Piazza Italia, a short walk from the center of town.

The city’s best-known red-sauce name came later. Joe Cosniac moved here from Canada in 1968 and opened the first Paesanos with his partner Nick Pacelli on McCullough Avenue in 1969. That original room is gone, but the Lincoln Heights flagship on East Basse Road carries on, and so does Shrimp Paesano, the lemon-butter shrimp the restaurant has never taken off the menu. The eggplant parm keeps it company.

Little Italy Restaurant & Pizzeria, off West Avenue near Blanco on the North Side, belongs to the Visocaro family. They came from Palermo, ran a pizzeria in New York starting in 1969, and opened here in 1983; Angelo and Paola Visocaro’s recipes are still in use, and their son Dominick runs the place now. Expect Southern Italian plates alongside New York-style pizza.

Out on the West Side, La Sorrentina is a smaller family-run room where chef-owner Juan "Pepe" Rangel, who moved here from Chicago and learned Italian cooking in other people’s San Antonio kitchens, now runs his own place. The newcomer is Mare e Monte ("sea and mountain") on Huebner Road near the Medical Center, which held its grand opening in November 2024. Between them you get the whole range: a 1969 institution, a 1983 family pizzeria, a chef’s own neighborhood spot, and a dining room still being broken in.

1. La Sorrentina Italian Restaurant (San Antonio) — Parm Score 88. Chicken parm comes up in 2 of the recent Google reviews we sampled, and the tone is positive. It is on the menu, too. 4.5 on Google across 1,730 reviews.
2. Little Italy Restaurant & Pizzeria (San Antonio) — Parm Score 87. Chicken parm comes up in 2 of the recent Google reviews we sampled, and the tone is positive. It is on the menu, too. 4.4 on Google across 2,593 reviews.
3. Mare E Monte Italian Restaurant (San Antonio) (San Antonio) — Parm Score 77. Chicken parm comes up in 1 of the recent Google reviews we sampled, and the tone is positive. 4.9 on Google across 5,667 reviews.

We ranked 14 restaurants within 10 miles of San Antonio, TX. 9 of them have the parm confirmed, by reviewers or on their own menu, and Parm Scores run from 55 to 88. Confirmed places rank first; the rest are well-reviewed Italian spots where the parm is not yet confirmed, and pizzerias and steakhouses need a mention to appear at all. How Parm Score works.

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