While icehouse culture has been a longtime part of San Antonio, the city’s experienced an upswing in far fancier places to drink. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX SanAntonioNightlife ThingsDoTOInSanAntonio
The Friendly Spot is one of roughly 30 venues participating in the inaugural San Antonio Icehouse Week.Before refrigeration, the neighborhood businesses stored and distributed massive blocks of the cold commodity, supplying nearby families so they could prolong the life of the meat and produce in their iceboxes.
Are the Alamo City’s icehouses on their way out as community gathering spots? Local owners think the culture is still alive and that their businesses have more than a fighting chance. Oliver has owned and operated The Dakota, located minutes from the Alamodome, since 2018. A former director of operations at Rio San Antonio Cruises, the entrepreneur opened the spot in a 2,000-square-foot former icehouse in hopes of replicating the feel of an old-school neighborhood fixture.
Some worry that unprecedented expansion of San Antonio will fuel the gentrification already going on in its near-downtown neighborhoods. “[The buyers] don’t understand that there’s not an H-E-B or Target right around the corner,” she said. “Exploring the area and taking advantage of the smaller neighborhood tiendas that really strive to cater to their neighbors, their immediate community, is so important. But that kind of insider information takes time to gather. And I’ve seen that [San Antonio] transplants just don’t get that.
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