First Impression: Wy’east Pizza
//When Applebee's announced last month it would be rebranding its 2,000-unit bastion of corporate mediocrity in order to take back respective neighborhoods with a "fire-breathing workhorse" of wood-burning...
First Impression: C-viche
//From Odd Duck to Lazy Susan, Goodkind to Vanguard, to the re-saddled Palomino, many of the big-deal restaurant openings in Bay View over the past few years have mostly kept a pork-bellied hue of New-All-...
First Impression: Easy Tyger
//When Brady Street Hardware shuttered last year and set off a building owner vs. neighborhood association pillow fight over what should fill the space, it highlighted the fact that if the bohemian center ...
First Impression: Supper
//Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Supper (1962 N. Prospect Ave., 414-509-6074), the new venture from Gina Gruenewald, of Wolf Peach ownership and wood-fired deliciousness, offers a contemporary ta...
First Impression: Merriment Social
Hit the Milwaukee Public Market on a Friday afternoon, try the Benelux rooftop or Wicked Hop patio or the new Colectivo on any warm-ish day of the week, and it’s pretty clear the Third Ward is the new Milwaukee...
First Impression: Amilinda
For every thousand or so of the soulless calorie dispensaries that make up the corporeal restaurant world, there’s at least one Amilinda (315 E Wisconsin Ave., 414-369-3683): an ephemeral kitchen presence, lurk...
In search of Milwaukee’s most authentic Mexican restaurants
We’ve all been there: sleeves rolled up, paper napkins scrunched in palm, grease trail trickling dangerously down the forearm as you angle another tortilla torpedo of mystery meat at your mouth, all the time th...
First Impression: Xankia
One of the boons to living anywhere long enough is getting to know the hidden gems. Settle for a decade in even a mediocre food ’burg and you should be able to impress dates and out-of-towners with ethnic pearl...
First Impression: Nourri
When Odd Duck opened to buzz and critical acclaim in 2012, drawing favorable comparisons to Senora Small Plates herself, La Merenda, it typified a fully shifted caloric paradigm. The restaurant was right on the...
First Impression: Daddy’s Soul Food & Grille
It’s easy to forget that we live in the most segregated city in the country. But cruise west out of Downtown on Wisconsin Avenue and there exists a microcosm of Milwaukee’s racial and economic divide: the plush...
First Impression: Meraki
On first glance, there isn’t a lot to distinguish Meraki, the new venture from Chad Meier, former chef at Blue Jacket. It’s doing the same thing, in the same neighborhood, as most of the rest of the Milwaukee r...
First Impression: The Brown Bottle
To those of a certain late-20s/early-30s bent, the newly re-opened Brown Bottle harkens memories of a former downtown bastion of Thursday night specials and college-y underage drinking. To those of a different ...
First Impression: Morel
When chef Jonathan Manyo left his native Milwaukee to cut culinary teeth on the scene in California, Cincinnati, and Portland, Walker’s Point was but a hodgepodge of old Rust Belt decay, gritty artist types, an...
First Impression: Story Hill BKC
Joining the fashionable deep-fried downhome-ness of Maxie’s and the hash brown-y over-popularity of Blue’s Egg comes Story Hill BKC, restaurant number three from owner Dan Sidner and chef/owner Joe Muench. Here...
First Impression: Tuk’s Thai Kitchen
The foodist winds of fate have not blown kind on the corner building at 1000 E. Locust Street. Native Riverwesterners scoff at the patchy history, and inactive Facebook pages whisper of yesterday’s discarded cr...
First Impression: Holey Moley Coffee + Doughnuts
Tiny dogs, shiny Beemer's, yoga pants, ballroom dancing, something called Zumba–fat guy fried dough and to-the-thighs icing might seem out of context in the pummeling, snowballing yuppification of the Old Third...