Boiler House At The Pearl

As a 15 year plus downtown resident, this is our backyard. With 30 plus years in the hospitality field (now retired) I feel I can bring you real insight into our locations. The good, the bad and the ugly. If we run across a serious issue, I will always go directly to management and not post it. I truly believe you always must give management an opportunity to correct a serious issue. If not corrected and or just ignored, then I feel it is correct to inform the public - professionally. No establishment is perfect. I will bring to you smaller hiccups we may have come across. I will rarely comment on the taste of food - being bad, as that is a very personal thing. My wife and I disagree on taste of food and wine, no one is wrong or right. Now if the food is on fire, burned, under/overcooked to our requests, that would be mentioned.Had an event to see at the STABLE in the Pearl. We picked the Broiler House. It's been about 5 years since our last visit. Just like the last time mmm mmm mmmm. Service was great, happy faces welcomed you as you came in and a goodbye and thanks for dining when you departed. I'm a bit of a Sangria snob, having dual citizenship. Dang it was good, refreshing! We brought a couple with us, first time for them and they also gave it a thumbs up. No issues at all talking with all four of us. If you have never gone, peek upstairs at the private glass room you can reserve! Thank you, Broiler house, for consistently being good and great service. PS, Cindi is a 40 year plus vegetarian, no issues for her for options.

We popped in on New Year's Eve for a drink. It was hopping, but the bartenders said it has been slow lately. Please stop by when you are in the area. We found a spot at the bar and I had a Llano red blend and my wife had the Pearl Parkway cocktail. A lot of imaginative cocktails on the menu. The decor is very industrial as this was the boiler house at the Pearl Brewery. Lots of reclaimed steel parts from the boiler. The best part about sitting at the bar is you are really close to the window where the food comes out. We will be back for happy hour.

Had a fantastic dinner at the Boiler House. Service was great and food/drinks were awesome. We came on a Monday evening and were able to catch the end of their happy hour (ends at 6pm). I ordered the sangria which I absolutely enjoyed!For dinner, we had the burger with fries and brisket grilled cheese with a side salad. The burger was juicy and very unique and the fries were so delicious. Hot, crispy and fresh. The grilled cheese brisket sandwich was good and the house salad was freaking great. I need that salad vinaigrette dressing recipe!The atmosphere in the evening combined with all the Christmas lights is the cherry on top. So lovely and festive. Prices are a bit high but if you can, take advantage of their happy hour! Nonetheless, this is definitely a restaurant to try.

Finally made it to a restaurant week event and it was worth the wait! I've been here before and I love the casual bougieness of this place, which is part of the charm in the Pearl. The hostess and servers were welcoming and attentive. My date and I each had a different prix fixe. My favorites were the beet and berries salad, the tomato romesco sauce served on the sea bass, and the tiramisu cheesecake. It was all beautiful & delightful. Definitely a great place to try!

The Boiler House has a damn good burger. The Big Texan Patriot Burger was big and delicious. I'm not a big fan of onions(I normally hate them on anything).Their crispy onions on the burger were thicker than usual. I tried the burger with the crispy onions anyway and I am glad I did. The crispy onions were very tasty. I also paid an extra $2 to upgrade to the truffle fries. They were very good. I received very good customer service and I wanted for nothing. The decor was nice and it wasn't crowded during lunch time during the week. I highly recommend eating here. You won't leave hungry.

Go here! Such a lovely time! The best food I've had in SA. Attentive staff. But the food is too good never heard a complaint from anyone I take here.

You know it's a great restaurant when the quality of food doesn't decline when you don't visit the place for months and it's still as good as you remember it. On our most recent visit to the Boiler House, we tried the Quail Poppers for appetizer and were amazing! Our waiter, Chris, was very helpful with recommendations and very attentive to our table. The burgers in this place are awesome and kid approved compared to other places in the city. There is a bar area and a dining area that is perfect for a family dinner or relaxing meal with friends plus a lot neat places to see around the area afterwards.

TL;DR - amazing food and service, especially for celiac or gluten sensitive patrons. If I had guided myself by the Yelp rating I may have skipped this place, but I'm glad we went by Google instead. A lot of the complaints I saw in reviews below about having to pay for parking or other comments that were not necessarily up to the restaurant felt unfair and not an accurate reflection of the experience here. My friend found this place while searching for gluten free options for our weekend in San Antonio, and the food and service were both so great that we went back for more on our second day in town. On our first visit we had Chris take care of us. We started with the quail-wrapped bacon appetizer and the truffle fries, and we ordered the salmon and the pollo norteño for our entrees. We went after 2pm, so the happy hour was in place and we also ordered 2 of their happy hour margaritas. The margaritas were the only not great part of our meal, but they were fine. We both finished the apps and entrees and everything was beyond flavorful and delicious. Chris was a wonderful server as well. We sat inside and it was great!So we agreed to go back for round 2. I'm very sorry I can't remember the name of our server for day 2, but he was absolutely wonderful as well. This time we sat outside. Having celiac usually limits the options I can have at most places, but I had the wonderful problem of not knowing what to choose here! So I asked our server for his recommendation between the burger and the lunch specials, all of which sounded great. He mentioned that the burger had won first place during a contest a few months before, and so my friend and I both ordered it (hers with a regular bun, mine GF) and WOW! No wonder it won the contest, there are so many wonderful flavors blended in there and they're so unexpected. We also repeated the quail and truffle fries and were equally delighted by all of it. The truffle fries were so crunchy and delicious, it was inevitable to finish the bowl. For day's 2 drink I went with their version of a Sidecar, which was nothing like a standard one, but still really enjoyed it. All in all, we came here for 2/3 days in town and I'd go back in a heartbeat for our next visit to San Antonio. The food, the service, and the ambiance. All 10/10!

Came here for a girls night with my old military buddy and we had high hopes of this place but it turned out to be disappointing. The waiter was nice but it seems like when we were seated (outside seating), we had a male server but I heard him saying to another waiter to take our table -as if he didn't want to be our server. Disappointing that he felt that way and pretty disrespected as I was there hearing him and looking at us. Anyways, I didn't want to ruin our dinner as I've not seen my friend in over 5 years. Our replacement server came and she was fantastic. I forgot to get her name - but she has short hair and really took care of us. She quickly stated that we had less than 5 min to place an order with happy hour prices so we ordered 2 tropical sangrias, bison balls (sooooo good!), and the crab cakes (2 in the happy hour order). Omgggg both those choices were great! I LOVED THE CRAB CAKES ! Soooo well seasoned and delicious, they didn't cheap out on the crab. For the main course we ordered the ribeye medium well, New York strip medium. green beans, macaroni and cheese, and sides if blue cheese / chimichurri sauce . My ribeye was disappointing- it was waaaay over cooked. I'm addition, it was under seasoned, pretty much didn't taste like anything - BUT THANK GOODNESS FOR THE BUTTER TOPPED AND BLUE CHEESE I added on the top. They were the reason I ate a quarter of it. My friends New York strip looked like it was medium and she said it was good - I didn't want to ask her too much. The sides: greens were cooked perfectly.Macaroni and cheese was dry and lacked flavor we basically took a bite and left it there. Overall, this place is overly priced, ambiance is 7/10. I will definitely come back only for the happy hour menu specify the crab cakes. I won't be bringing my family it will only be a quick bite w my partner. Price I paid (I treated my friend) $240.00 Not sure if warranted but I think Texas Roadhouse would've been the wiser choice (Reference for the picture I added - it was too much verbiage) The spread of what we ordered -front: 16 oz. Prime Center-Cut Ribeye-back: 14 oz. Prime New York StripMacaroni and cheese 2 Crab CakesGreen BeansSide of blue cheese (steak topper)Side of chimichurri (steam topper)

Came here for a Christmas work lunch and it did not disappoint!Great service throughout our meal and they really made the lunch standout ! Always amazing atmosphere and decor - and liked the little extra touches for Christmas.For me the standout was the beet salad appetizer! It was delicious, perfect size and everything about it was fantastic!Don't usually eat burgers and fries - but the opportunity to upgrade to truffle fires sold me and they were great! It was a large dish and I managed to eat the burger sans bun and it was pretty good! A great spot to dine at the Pearl!