Author Caleb Westphal

321 Friday fish frys and counting: Villa Tap (Madison)

February 28, 2020

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion ma...

320 Friday fish frys and counting: Lone Star Tavern (Germantown)

Caleb Westphal

February 21, 2020

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.What happens in Wisconsin when Valentine's Day falls on a Friday? In my mind, all the high-end r...

319 Friday fish frys and counting: Limanski’s Pub (West Allis)

Caleb Westphal

February 14, 2020

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.I glanced around as I walked up to the bar at Tom's Foolery, a pub located in the basement of Ta...

318 Friday fish frys and counting: Husher’s Pub & Grill (Caledonia)

Caleb Westphal

February 7, 2020

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.Wrong turns can be consequential. For example, you may have heard that the assassination of Arch...

MKE Music Rewind: 5 O’Clock Charlie, ‘Not Enough Time’

Caleb Westphal

February 6, 2020

In our MKE Music Rewind series, we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014.The third wave of ska crested in the mid-'90s, when bands like The M...

317 Friday fish frys and counting: The Wicked Hop (Milwaukee)

Caleb Westphal

January 31, 2020

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.A framed still shot of Orson Welles in The Third Man hangs in the second floor dining area at Th...

316 Friday fish frys and counting: Johnson’s Green 7 (Glendale)

Caleb Westphal

January 24, 2020

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.Not long after the U.S. Constitution went into effect, Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter where he...

315 Friday fish frys and counting: Hacienda Beer Co. (Milwaukee)

Caleb Westphal

January 17, 2020

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.Sweat saturated my fingers as I ran them through the hair under my knit cap, the heat on my head...

314 Friday fish frys and counting: TJ’s Roundabout (Muskego)

Caleb Westphal

January 10, 2020

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.Mt. Horeb and Oshkosh are two Wisconsin cities I've driven through where I've had to traverse a ...

313 Friday fish frys and counting: Pat’s Niche Pub and Grub (Milwaukee)

Caleb Westphal

January 3, 2020

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.It was sometime during the summer when the sign caught my eye. Striking, with tones of fuchsia a...

312 Friday fish frys and counting: Final Approach (Milwaukee)

Caleb Westphal

December 27, 2019

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.By the time this gets published, it will be the last Friday of the year, which means we will all...

The best Milwaukee-area fish frys of 2019

Caleb Westphal

December 20, 2019

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. In April 2017, he began writing a weekly column documenting and reviewing his never-ending fish fry adventures. Here are his top places he visited in 2...

310 Friday fish frys and counting: Guzzlers Sports Lounge (West Allis)

Caleb Westphal

December 13, 2019

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.The plan was to get a fish fry at a place called Korbellys. The problem? Well, Korbellys hasn't ...

309 Friday fish frys and counting: Brookwood Inn (Mukwonago)

Caleb Westphal

December 6, 2019

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.There is a yearly Friday tradition in America where people stand outside of stores in the dark a...

308 Friday fish frys and counting: JC’s Pub And Grub (West Allis)

Caleb Westphal

November 29, 2019

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.As I pulled into the Johnny Carson spot at JC's Pub and Grub (8028 W. National Ave.; West Allis;...

MKE Music Rewind: The Shag, “Stop And Listen”

Caleb Westphal

November 26, 2019

In our MKE Music Rewind series, we revisit notable Milwaukee music that was released before Milwaukee Record became a thing in April 2014.When I think of garage rock songs from the 1960s that have a conspic...

307 Friday fish frys and counting: Rainbow Restaurant (New Berlin)

Caleb Westphal

November 22, 2019

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here."We work for in our songs, a sort of a better world, a rainbow world," songwriter E.Y. "Yip" Har...

306 Friday fish frys and counting: Mint Mark (Madison)

Caleb Westphal

November 15, 2019

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.It was 5:55 p.m. when I received a call and heard the words that everyone dreads having to hear ...

305 Friday fish frys and counting: Romey’s Place Bar & Grill (Franklin)

Caleb Westphal

November 8, 2019

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.In Mike Nichols' 1966 film adaptation of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, George a...

304 Friday fish frys and counting: O’Lydia’s Bar and Grill (Milwaukee)

Caleb Westphal

November 1, 2019

Caleb Westphal hasn’t missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here.On the evening of Tuesday May 2, 1967, a tanker truck carrying 6,5000 gallons of gas toppled ove...