{"id":477429,"date":"2026-10-26T20:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477429\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T20:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T20:16:06","slug":"franks-pollo-asado-opens-first-universal-city-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/477429\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank&#8217;s Pollo Asado opens first Universal City location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years after chef Johnny Hernandez closed the Dominion location of La Gloria, a new family-friendly restaurant is finally taking up its space. <a href=\"https:\/\/16thstreeticehouse.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">16th Street Ice House<\/a>, located at 21819 I-10 W, launched with a soft opening on October 24.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant has kept mostly hush-hush, but it appears to be from the owners behind <a href=\"https:\/\/taco16thstreet.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Taco 16th Street<\/a>, a tiny chain with outposts in San Antonio and Odessa. The logo \u2014 a rendering of an al pastor trompo \u2014 is nearly identical to the taqueria, and the food at the soft was provided by its taco truck.<\/p>\n<p>The ice house (and a few influencers) have revealed a few more details via social media. The menu expands from tacos to Tex-Mex dishes like enchiladas and fajitas and pub grub like chicken tenders and burgers. A flyer passed out at the soft opening promised beer and cocktails.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps more importantly for Dominion and Boerne families, the spot offers plenty of ways to blow off steam. The compound features a pickleball court, cornhole, and a playscape for the kids. Lounge chairs and a fire pit flank the patio for less active pursuits.<\/p>\n<p>The decor isn\u2019t a far stretch from La Gloria. Although Hernandez packed up his metal mariachi, the property includes an oversized catrina and a painted calavera. Bright orange covers everything from benches to umbrellas.<\/p>\n<p>La Gloria Dominion opened in 2014 as the restaurant\u2019s flagship, taking up twice the square footage of the Pearl original. Hernandez shuttered it in 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/from-la-gloria-to-super-bien-chef-johnny-hernandez-isnt-done-building-his-culinary-kingdom\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">citing<\/a> highway construction and the area\u2019s rapid growth. Those headaches have mostly calmed, although the neighborhood is still seeing plenty of new faces.<\/p>\n<p>16th Street Ice House has not posted regular hours, and its website is still a placeholder. Neighbors can follow along for updates on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/16thstreeticehouse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four years after chef Johnny Hernandez closed the Dominion location of La Gloria, a new family-friendly restaurant is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11957,3587,2874,82,84,83,365],"class_list":["post-477429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-chicken","tag-mexican-cuisine","tag-opening","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-universal-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}