{"id":772,"date":"2015-06-08T19:37:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T19:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=772"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:27:00","slug":"look-what-the-tide-brought-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"Look What the Tide Brought In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve driven down South First hundreds of times and one of my favorite stops on the way home used to be\u00a0the El Chile restaurant on the corner of SoFi and Mary. I always enjoyed a chelada and the\u00a0chicken enchiladas with green sauce. But no more! Alas, out with the Mexican plates and in with coastal flair. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alcomaratx.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alcomar<\/a> has burst onto the food scene with a very big splash and a wildly divergent menu form the former offerings.<\/p>\n<p>I loved the place \u2013 albeit a tad too loud\u00a0for my comfort. The food was great, the atmosphere festive and calming, the cocktails delicious and the service very agreeable. The Gulf Oysters were served ice cold with tasty\u00a0sauces. The rest of my meal consisted of random\u00a0appetizers; the snapper ceviche, I believe. I like a bit of heat\u00a0in my ceviche and this was on the less spicy side, but it was very fresh and well presented.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to the team for another great place to join the family that includes; El Alma, El Chile, El Sapo and now Alcomar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve driven down South First hundreds of times and one of my favorite stops on the way home used to be\u00a0the El Chile restaurant on the corner of SoFi and Mary. I always enjoyed a chelada and the\u00a0chicken enchiladas with green sauce. But no more! Alas, out with the Mexican plates and in with coastal flair. Alcomar has burst onto the food scene with a very big splash and a wildly divergent menu form the former offerings. I loved the place \u2013 albeit a tad too loud\u00a0for my comfort. The food was great, the atmosphere festive and calming, the cocktails delicious and the service very agreeable. The Gulf Oysters were served ice cold with tasty\u00a0sauces. The rest of my meal consisted of random\u00a0appetizers; the snapper ceviche, I believe. I like a bit of heat\u00a0in my ceviche and this was on the less spicy side, but it was very fresh and well presented. Kudos to the team for another great place to join the family that includes; El Alma, El Chile, El Sapo and now Alcomar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13,40],"tags":[201,202,39],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dining","category-entertainment","category-lifestyle","tag-alcomar","tag-seafood-austin","tag-sofi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3046,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/3046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}