San Antonio Express-News (Sunday)
Upscale Stout’s Signature near the Tobin Center opens early
In a rare turn of events, the new upscale restaurant Stout’s Signature near the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts is ahead of schedule and opened to the public Thursday — a week earlier than initially planned.
This is the second Stout’s Signature location for owner Jason Stout, who opened the first at Grape Creek Vineyards in Fredericksburg. He also owns Stout’s Pizza Co., which has two locations in San Antonio and one in New Braunfels. The location in the Northwoods shopping center near U.S. 281 and Loop 1604 was rated “a solid neighborhood option” by the San Antonio Express-News
in last year’s 52 Weeks of Pizza series.
The new, 4,500-square-foot Stout’s Signature property downtown accommodates up to 162 diners with seating indoors and on an outdoor patio. It serves eight types of pizza cooked in custom stone ovens, but the menu also features refined takes on beef filet, bone-in pork chops, pasta dishes, risotto and more, including the filet- and sirloinbased Stout’s Burger, which ring up at an impressive $22.
Stout told the Express-News he’s brought on cocktail expert Hector Vargas of Cellar Mixology to run the restaurant’s cocktail program. Stout said guests can expect cocktails themed to the evening’s entertainment at the
Tobin Center. The restaurant includes private lockers for regulars to stash fine whiskeys and other spirits to share with their tablemates.
The Tobin Center project isn’t the last stop in San Antonio for Stout. He plans to open a small, 1,600-square-foot express version of his pizzerias, with seating for about 28 guests, this fall in a shopping center at 10222 W. Military Drive, near Texas 151.
Stout’s Signature, 227 Fourth St., stoutssignature.com, Facebook: @stoutssignature. Hours: 11 a.m to 9 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, with daily hours to follow.