Skip to main content Currently Reading 10 of the best chili recipes, from the Instant Pot to chili from Mi Tierra and chili made with venison and also chicken FacebookTwitterEmail San Antonio made chili famous. In the decades that followed the fall of the Alamo and the beginning of Texas independence, the public plazas of San Antonio, including Alamo Plaza, were filled with outdoor vendors offering wares that included hearty fare of enchiladas, frijoles and giant pots of chili con carne, served by the women who became famous as the chili queens, who operated open-air stands until they were regulated out of existence by the 1940s.