First Impression: Taco Stop MKE
These days, there seems to be a new Mexican joint popping up every month in or somewhere around Milwaukee. Even when one establishment bows out, another one quickly moves in nearby to take its place. Though...
First Impression: Taco Bandito
Along with the influx of new microbreweries, distilleries, and faceless luxury apartment complexes, Walker's Point has also become a go-to destination for an exciting cast of new restaurants. Following the ...
Holy shit! Here are 15 more Milwaukee patios
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What more can we say at this point? Patios are great and everybody seems to love them. Over the last two years, we've listed seven patios that make you feel like you're not in Milwau...
New bar, music venue opening at site of Hotel Foster (for a night)
Last month, The Hotel Foster closed its doors for good. The five-year-old bar and occasional music venue's unfortunate conclusion put a stop to months of speculation and uncertainty regarding the bar's fate...
MGD Day: In search of a dying domestic beer
Yes, I understand. There is a new brewery going in here. There is a new brewery going in there. Every bar you go to has a long tap list of all the new cool brews they have rotating in from all across the co...
Tin Widow has quickly, quietly become a premier Milwaukee gin bar
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, one of the best is in Walker's Point.
There is also a piano and a man named Sam, but we don't need to keep going down the 1940s pop culture refere...
Cream City Swirl is closed
Following more than two and a half years on the corner of Lennox Street and Kinnickinnic Avenue, Cream City Swirl will no longer be in business, at least not as a traditional shop. The Bay View frozen yogur...
Take a peek at the construction of Nine Below, the “mini-golf tavern” coming to the East Side
On a list of businesses likely to open in the vacant basement space below Beans & Barley, "mini-golf tavern" would land somewhere between "artisanal Lunchables bar" and "High Dive East." And yet a mini-...
Phở King changed its fucking name
If you're a frequent reader of Milwaukee Record, you're surely a mature and well-adjusted member of society who wouldn't lower yourself to acknowledge something as base and childish as wordplay. With that i...
First Impression: Good City Brewing
It's only August and 2016 can already be chalked up as a tough year for bars and restaurants on Milwaukee's East Side. After 11 years on Kenilworth Place, Yield screeched to an abrupt stop in May. Y-Not III's B...
Can you fucking believe it? Here are 13 more Milwaukee patios!
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For whatever reason, Milwaukee can't seem to get enough patios. Maybe the fact that more than half the year is spent hunkered indoors, waiting out the cold, gray, and altogether shitty conditions outside...
Here’s The Vanguard’s new menu
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Since opening in October 2014, The Vanguard has been a boon to Milwaukee dining, while also doubling as a prime place to watch the Packers and pro wrestling, and serving host for a single-day Chinese res...
Bumstead Provisions to bring dining, deli, corner store, mini cocktails, Chris Farley art, and more to Bay View next month
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More than a year after its projected opening date, Bumstead Provisions will finally be in business next month. The Bay View bar, restaurant, corner shop, and deli will have its soft opening September 15,...
Best Pakistani Restaurant In The Basement Of A Downtown Office Building: Shah Jee’s
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Every Friday, Milwaukee Record presents The Randoms, a series of highly specific and delightfully arbitrary "best of" awards that do away with pesky voting and feigned attempts at impartiality. Who will ...
First Impression: Black Husky Brewing
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It's a story as old as time. A young man from a small northwoods town moves to the big city. He meets a woman. They fall in love. After starting a family and spending years in the city they met, the man ...
The Hotel Foster is closing
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Following what's been a summer of speculation, rumors, assumptions, and an overriding sense of uncertainty, The Hotel Foster will be closing Saturday, August 13. Wednesday evening, longtime Foster barten...
Jolly Good soda power rankings
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Last month, news came that Random Lake-based soda pop purveyor Jolly Good had resumed production of the beverage that kept the whistles of cost-conscious consumers in Wisconsin and neighboring states wet...
The MexItalian Food Truck is so random, so awesome
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For a select few hours on sporadic weekdays, a few feet of sidewalk between the Piggly Wiggly and Home Depot parking lots on Chase Avenue becomes the site of something truly special. There, nestled tight...
Pabst will return to Wisconsin State Fair with new beer garden
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The 2016 Wisconsin State Fair is approximately 24 hours away. Yes, beginning Thursday, August 4, Wisconsinites can once again enjoy oodles of farm animals, oodles of racing farm animals, cream puffs, dee...
Great Job, Milwaukee! We’re the 3rd best city for beer lovers
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Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job, Milwaukee Bot to keep track of the city's many appearances on dopey online lists, or any time a national publication deigns ...