Nao Latin Gastro Bar is a student staffed restaurant at The Culinary Institute of America San Antonio located at the Pearl. Students do the cooking for lunch menus under the supervision of instructors so they can get real life restaurant experience. The menu features Latin American dishes rooted in tradition but reinvented using a variety of ingredients and techniques and includes seasonal and progressive Latin food. The Culinary Institute of America at San Antonio recently made the announcement that their new fall menu is now available at Nao Latin Gastro Bar. This new menu is for dinner only, is run by a professional staff and features starters, grill items and specialties that showcase fall flavors. (Nao Latin Gastro Bar, 2016)

The fall menu consists of:
Starters to share – Empanadas with corn, salsa blanca and ají verde, Burrata and Charbroiled Beets with basil and orange and Pork Belly Skewers with chicharrón ají verde and cilantro.
Grill options – Double Cut Pork Chop with fall flavors like mustard seeds, apples and turnips, a Filet served with Malbec glaze, potatoes,creamed leeks and spinach and a Mixed parrillada for two with NY steak, hanger steak, blood sausage, Argentinian chorizo, charred peppers, onions, potatoes and chimichurri.
Specialties – Seared Scallops with vatapá sauce, crispy yucca and sweety drop peppers, Braised Lamb Shank with squash, peas and dried fruit and a Daily Seafood Catch served with tomatoes, olives and capers.
Fall specialty beverages – Chicana 75 with Ancho Reyes, Campari, strawberries, lime and brut sparkling, the Tito’s and Hootch with Tito’s vodka, house made tepache, rosemary, lemon and salt and the Desert Rose made with sotol, Punt e Mes, Cocchi Americano and Aperol.

Nao Latin Gastro Bar is open for lunch Monday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., for dinner Tuesday to Thursday from 5:30 to 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 5:30 to 10 p.m. and for brunch on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Nao Latin Gastro Bar
312 Pearl Parkway
San Antonio, TX 78215
(210) 554-6484