Silver Cloud

We ate dinner at Silver Cloud in Bucktown. We saw this place on Chicago's Best and have seen it in person when we have eaten at other places in the Bucktown / Wicker Park neighborhood (it is a block away from Hot Chocolate).

Basically we went here for the chicken pot pie that was featured on Chicago's Best. They seem to be known for comfort food so we also ordered mac n cheese and tater tots.

This seemed like more of a bar than a restaurant, but we went early on a Wednesday so there more diners were there than drinkers.

Chicken Pot Pie

Chicken pot pie - the crust was pretty amazing, very light and flaky, not heavy at all.  It was baked around a low bowl plate so we picked crust off of the side of the plate to get all the remnants. There wasn't a lot of chicken in the contents but everything was creamy. It came with either a soup or salad.  We ordered a salad, but there was nothing too specal about the salad except that the dressing was great handmade chipotle ranch.(salad not pictured)

Custom Mac n Cheese

Custom mac n cheese - this seemed like a good accompaniment to the pot pie.  We customized the regular mac n cheese by adding the unusual ingredients of pulled pork and caramelized onions.  It ended up tasting amazing - there was a lot of sweetness from the pork and the onions and the regular mac n cheese ended up making the whole concoction rather creamy and flavorful. We don't make a lot of mac n cheese at home, but by adding some different ingredients it really takes the food to a different level.

Tater Tots

Tater tots - nothing special, just sounded like more fun comfort food. They were baked instead of fried so we felt a little better about indulging in them.

Final thoughts on Silver Cloud:

Food - great food for a bar type of establishment, we saw what looked to be locals as the other customers

Service - laid back but prompt when the food was ready

Atmosphere - since we got there before 6 pm on a weeknight there weren't too many people there.  But it looks like it gets happening a bit later. On Thursdays they have trivia night but it doesn't start until 9 pm so that would preclude us from being able to get up for work the next morning. This neighborhood must have a lot of people from Michigan because the employees and customers were looking for the Detroit Tigers game on the TV.  Also the screen saver on the computer was the Detroit Lions mascot and there is a MSU bar right across the street.