After 29 years, the Silo Alamo Heights restaurant on Austin Highway has moved to the downstairs level of the building it shares with La Fogata Mexican Cuisine and changed its name to Silo Oyster Tavern.
The move makes way for what owner Patrick Richardson describes as an upcoming “white-tablecloth” version of his other concept, the Italian restaurant Nonna Osteria, led by chef Luca Della Casa.
The reimagined ground-floor Silo Oyster Tavern takes over a space that once housed a Humble gas station and later a gourmet food store called Farm to Market. From 2012 to 2020, this same building hosted the now-closed Italian precursor concept to Nonna Osteria called Nosh, also led by Della Casa. The Nosh space became one of three La Fogata Mexican Cuisine locations in 2022. That La Fogata location remains unchanged.
Silo Oyster Tavern is now open for dinner at 5 p.m. seven nights a week, with plans to add lunch next week, Richardson said. When that happens, the new hours will be 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
The new menu adds a daily slate of fresh East Coast oysters, along with Silo’s chicken-fried oysters, mussels, lobster mac and cheese, a lobster roll, a burger, blackened redfish, Parmesan-crusted chicken, beef tenderloin and shrimp and grits.
The 90-label wine list that helped propel Silo to the Express-News rankings of the Top 10 restaurants in the 78209 ZIP code will stay in place. Silo also has three other locations: the Top 50 Silo Oyster Terrace at Dominion Ridge, Silo 1604 on the North Side and the steakhouse Silo Prime at The Fairmount Hotel downtown.
Richardson also owns Nonna Osteria locations at The Fairmount and 1604, along with two other La Fogata locations at Vance Jackson Road and Dominion Ridge.
Silo Oyster Tavern, 1133 Austin Highway, 210-824-8686, silosa.com
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