Wolfe’s Inn could have been the setting for a Hallmark Christmas movie but was a real...
What was the name of a restaurant which was located on or near the corner of Wurzbach and Fredericksburg roads? It was set back in a wooded area at that location.It could have been the family business that the heroine of a Hallmark Christmas movie comes home to save — a beloved, rustic restaurant whose wood-burning stoves turn out hearty cooking, served family-style on long tables in a dining room with flagstone floors and an open fireplace.
The long-lived restaurant opened in 1915 as W.W. Wolfe’s Inn Café — then the name on the soon-to-be famous arched “sign of the wolf,” with its representation of the animal — in the converted home of Worthy West Wolfe and his wife, Estelle. Well outside the San Antonio city limits, their property was at the Fredericksburg end of what’s still known as Hamilton Wolfe Road — not named for a South Texas Medical Center dignitary but for two “home places” and the families who lived there.
The menu was enduringly simple. As with most local restaurants of the early 20th century that weren’t limited to short orders, entrees were steak and fried chicken , with biscuits and cream gravy, fried potatoes and fresh vegetables, with house-made pies and cobblers. As owner and operator, Wolfe “personally direct the entire operation of his celebrated tavern, select and every item of goods served at his place and personally supervise its storage, preparation and serving,” says an advertorial published in the San Antonio Express, Nov. 11, 1935.
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