Instead, the staff expertly toes the line between consummate professionals, enthusiastic sales people and knowledgeable eaters. Otherwise the rest of the offerings include selections from the cold bar, soups and salads, small plates, big plates, sharable sides and signature cocktails.Ī note on the service staff: It would be easy for Silo to hire a slew of uppity, pro-servers, but that's not the case here. Dinner includes a daily prix fixe option complete with a mixed green salad, which includes a Maine lobster roll, Crystal Hot Sauce fried chicken, braised lamb loin, Florida stone crab, and fish and chips. The dinner and lunchtime menus vary slightly. Clearly the kitchen, open and steely, must be doing something right.
Considering how January can often be a slower time for eateries, the bustling scene was encouraging. There was a surprising amount of diners out on a recent Monday night during my initial visit.
The almost freezing temperatures, along with the tiny monster known as cedar pollen kept us from sitting on the covered patio, but come springtime, the space will likely draw a bustling crowd if only for the oysters and sparkling wines. Instead, Silo Terrace Oyster Bar is inviting, cool and comfortable and the scene persists from evening to daytime as the featured lighting keeps things bright at night and sunlight pours into the space during the day. The space, possibly 3,000 square feet of it, is just as posh as its sister locations with tiled walls and floors, which could come off as cold, but don't. It's easy enough to find the entrance-the gleaming walls of wine hold passport into the dining room via a tile-lined elevator. Like its predecessors before it and like its name suggests, STOB features a terrace-level dining experience. Parking is ample on weeknights and during lunch, but I expect that changes come the weekend as neighbor eatery Aldaco's draws in its own set of diners (coincidentally, that's also the third location for the local chain owned by Blanca Aldaco). Immediate notions of stuffy patrons danced through my head, but I wasn't going to stay away from the eatery's selection of freshly flown-in oysters.Īnd to the eatery's defense, this iteration takes on a much more approachable spin. Silo Terrace Oyster Bar, sister restaurant to Alamo Heights' Silo Elevated Cuisine/Nosh and a second eatery off Loop 1604, had a fairly innocuous opening this past November off I-10 and directly across from The Dominion. There were a few reasons why I may have been apprehensive about the Silo family's latest endeavor. Stop in for oysters and stay for much more
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