Published March 28, 2025

It was the 10th SMART Awards Gala Dinner, the time when we honor and toast the San Miguel de Allende restaurants that subscribers to Don Day in SMA vote as their favorites.

The routine is pretty much the same. The winner of the previous year’s top award welcomes guests to an ultra special, multi-course dinner and I do an old-fashioned AM radio-style top ten countdown.

I started the 2025 edition with a little history that shows how much our treasured little town has exploded in the last decade. At awards time in 2015, Trip Advisor showed that there were 233 restaurants in San Miguel. Today, there are a staggering 648.

Of that extraordinary number only 104 restaurants received any votes at all in this year’s voting.

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