PNO: Silo

Instead of blogging about a great meal I made this weekend, instead I'll share a great meal we enjoyed for Parents' Night Out.

This past Friday, Paul and I enjoyed the best perk of daycare: Parents' Night Out. One night a month, the daycare will keep the kids until 11:30 so we can go out on a date. Like grown-ups.

I like to take full advantage of PNO and go somewhere we can enjoy fancy grown up stuff like foie gras or pretty much anything that doesn't come with a side of fries (unless, of course, it's the delicious pommes frites at Bistro Vatel!).

This weekend, we decided to go to Silo. Their tag is "elevated cuisine," and their gimmick is that the restaurant is upstairs so you take an elevator from the bar and the hostess greets you by name at the top.

We arrived a few minutes before our reserved seating but declined to wait in the bar. (I think their bar is kinda creepy, and they allow smoking inside, which I think is disgusting.) Instead, we went up to our table and enjoyed a pre-dinner drink there. Paul had a Heineken, and I had their signature cosmo, which was so smooth it could be very dangerous if consumed in quantity.

We skipped appetizers since neither of us were extremely hungry and, instead, preordered the molten chocolate cake for dessert.

Paul had the surf-and-turf special with a petite filet and lobster tail. Both just melted in your mouth. The steak was beautifully rare and had the perfect amount of smoky flavor. (Wood-firing is big here in San Antonio.) The lobster tail was served split and was sublime.

I started with the spinach salad, which was perfection. It featured dried apricots and cranberries plus a dressing that I could bathe in. For my meal, I chose the foie gras special appetizer. It was Heaven on a plate! It was perfectly seared and served on toasted brioche with a rich demi glaze.

And, of course, that warm chocolate cake was the sweet ending to a great night out.

Sad to report that I was at the daycare to pick up the boys before 9 o'clock!