Looking for a roundup of Milwaukee food and drink news? Then take a bite of our cleverly titled, bi-weekly Food/Drink Roundup! This week: Midwest Sad!
• Okay, try to follow along here: Milwaukee comfort-food bakery Midwest Sad opened in April 2024 in the lower level of 770 N. Jefferson St. in downtown Milwaukee. (You know, the same lower level as Shah Jee’s!) In February 2025, owner Samantha Sandrin announced she would soon be opening a new Midwest Sad at 601 S. 6th St. in Walker’s Point. It was supposed to open in April 2025. General hurdles of opening a new business pushed that opening to this weekend. But, thanks to some plumber drama (read all about it HERE), the new Midwest Sad is still waiting for its official opening date.
So what’s an increasingly harried bakery to do? Debut its new menu in its old location, of course!
Here’s the latest message from Sandrin:
We’re doing something a little wild and pivoting to opening new sad @ old sad! This process of this plumbing situation is making our lives hard and it sucks! People have reached out and asked how they could help; this is how. Show up at our already open location tomorrow [Friday] for our classics, and then this weekend for a full food menu preview including some new additions and some throw backs! Share this with everyone ya know, people ya don’t know, scream it at people, tell your local pharmacy tech, idk everyone. We really hope to see ya, we can’t wait to see ya at Walker’s Point but that’s gonna have to wait till next week.
Oh, and you can donate to an ongoing Midwest Sad GoFundMe HERE. [Instagram]
• A new Latin American bar and restaurant, Banderas, is open now at 408 W. Florida St. in Walker’s Point. [OnMilwaukee]
• A new juice bar, The Canteen, is open now at 3040 S. Delaware Ave. in Bay View. [Urban Milwaukee]
• 41Fork Hospitality is closing its concepts in the Associated Bank River Center, 111 E. Kilbourn Ave. Knockbox Coffee, Toro Tacos & Bowls, and On Rye Deli will close August 15; Vault Cocktail Bar will close August 30. [OnMilwaukee]
• But don’t worry! The Marcus Corporation will take over food and beverage operations in the building and open similar concepts! [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
• A new bar, Foy’s, is open now in the space of an old bar, Belmont Tavern, 784 N. Jefferson St. [OnMilwaukee]
• Coming soon to 2213 N. King Drive: an ’80s-themed bar called Summer Of ’85! [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
• The new top-flight coffee partner of the top-flight Pabst Theater Group and its collection of top-flight venues? Discourse! [OnMilwaukee]
• New boba place. [Urban Milwaukee]
• Pop’s Custard, N87W16459 Appleton Ave. in Menomonee Falls, will close August 31. Damn. [TMJ4]
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