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Mandatory Milwaukee: Koppa’s combines tasty sandwiches, taxidermy, Atari

January 9, 2017

Some places come and go, while some places become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples with fresh eyes, and explore how they might figu...

The Philly Way wants to reopen, starts GoFundMe campaign

Tyler Maas

January 6, 2017

Last July, 2nd Street cheese steak stalwart The Philly Way was forced to close its doors after 16 years in business. Owner Dave London said the 405 S. 2nd Street property was sold and the building's new owner...

Midwest Diner has closed

Tyler Maas

January 2, 2017

Though Midwest Diner is open 24 hours Tuesdays through Sundays, the venerable restaurant typically locks its doors and turns off its open sign until 6 a.m. Mondays. Today was no different, except that once 6 ...

A certified sommelier’s guide to bargain basement wine

Tyler Maas

December 29, 2016

With New Year's Eve on the horizon, the probability of there being at least one more holiday gathering on your itinerary, and the likelihood of occasional dinner parties thereafter, you're bound to find yours...

Miller High Life releases limited edition champagne bottles

Tyler Maas

December 26, 2016

For more than a century, Miller High Life has been marketed as "The Champagne Of Beers." Now, that assertion is more accurate than ever. Recently, Miller's flagship brew was made available in special collecto...

Milwaukee winter cocktails that will warm your soul

Stacy Tornio

December 20, 2016

Let's not even get into what qualifies as a polar vortex—it's cold, people. And if you're going to go to the trouble of bundling up and braving the treacherous roads and the conditions to get out of the house...

Here’s everywhere you can buy Milwaukee Record’s “Re-Porter” beer

Tyler Maas

December 16, 2016

Have you heard the news? Milwaukee Record has its own beer. It's pretty damn good, and we aren't the only ones who think so. Since its December release, the spiced rye porter we brewed in collaboration with C...

The Phoenix Cocktail Club will rise in Cathedral Square on New Year’s Eve

Tyler Maas

December 15, 2016

This December 31, many people in Milwaukee will bid farewell to 2016 with a drink in hand. Over in Cathedral Square, The Phoenix Cocktail Club (785 N. Jefferson St., 414-539-5918) will be saying a long-overdu...

Milwaukee mouthfeel: 2016 drinking, dining, and patio recap

Tyler Maas

December 14, 2016

While so many have already declared 2016 to be a down year in, well, years to be alive, at least Milwaukee can take solace in knowing there has maybe never been a better time to eat or drink delicious things ...

Summon the dead (and living) to partake in all things agave at Cempazuchi

Ross Salchow

December 12, 2016

Brady Street—and the Lower East side as a whole—is filled with unique shops, bars, and restaurants. It probably isn't exactly fair to single out Cempazuchi as the brightest flower in the field, but it is inhe...

Third Space Brewing will start offering public tours December 10

Tyler Maas

December 5, 2016

In a year that found close to 10 breweries either opening in or relocating operations to Milwaukee, Third Space Brewing could very well be the best of the bunch. With its small-but-sturdy batch of West Coast-...

The Jazz Estate returns as a resurrected classic

Matt Wild

December 2, 2016

Hollywood has spent the past decade perfecting the art of the "soft reboot." Films like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Trek, and Jurassic World all essentially function as reboots of their respective long...

Here are the best beer names at every brewery in Wisconsin

Tyler Maas

November 30, 2016

Thursday night, Milwaukee Record will be releasing our very own beer into the world. Our collaboration with Company Brewing combines the Riverwest microbrewery's already delicious Night Rye'd Porter with caca...

Try Milwaukee Record’s new beer and support local organizations

Tyler Maas

November 23, 2016

Hey! Guess what. Milwaukee Record has its own beer! In effort to raise more money for our upcoming Local Coverage benefit (January 13 at Turner Hall), we've partnered with Company Brewing to collaborate on...

McDonald’s has cheese curds now (in Milwaukee, at least) and they’re okay

Matt Wild

November 22, 2016

In the whiz-bang and artery-hardening world of fast food, there exist magical places known as test markets. These are cities, or sometimes entire states, that are frequently graced with new fast food menu ite...

Milwaukee Record’s holiday (and holiday-adjacent) beer round-up

Tyler Maas

November 22, 2016

Lowlands Group is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week. Since opening Cafe Hollander on Downer Avenue in 2006, the restaurant group has ballooned to seven locations—with another set to open next year—an...

Vermutería 600 (el bar at Hotel Madrid): An Ernest Hemingway-themed bar comes to Walker’s Point

Ross Salchow

November 21, 2016

It’s about damn time someone opened up an Ernest Hemingway-themed bar. The man is known as much for his literary masterpieces as he is for his drinking prowess. Some of the upper-tier drinking quotes are penn...

Hot ‘n Now or never: Driving thru the edge of extinction

Tyler Maas

November 17, 2016

It's said nothing lasts forever, but that isn't always true. In this insatiable era of nostalgia, reunions, reissues, and arbitrarily-numbered lists of minutia only kids can understand, anything simply ce...

The Randoms 2016: Best new Milwaukee microbrewery (not originally from Milwaukee)

Milwaukee Record Staff

November 15, 2016

broadstreet.zone(54421); With the city currently in the throes of local awards fever, Milwaukee Record presents The Randoms, a series of highly specific and delightfully arbitrary “best of” awards that do away...

The Randoms 2016: Best pizza business inside of a bar (Bay View)

Milwaukee Record Staff

November 15, 2016

broadstreet.zone(54421); With the city currently in the throes of local awards fever, Milwaukee Record presents The Randoms, a series of highly specific and delightfully arbitrary “best of” awards that do away...

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