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You can “Save Yield Bar” by donating to its GoFundMe campaign

June 8, 2016

// Last month, we were sad to break the news that Yield Bar had abruptly closed its doors with no notice, following 11 years in business. Yesterday, news that a cocktail and ramen establishment called Yokoh...

First Impression: Wy’east Pizza

Todd Lazarski

June 8, 2016

// 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...

Tucked Away: East End Cafe

Matt Wild

June 7, 2016

// Between beloved and well-established local staples and a steady wave of new bars and restaurants popping up in and around Milwaukee almost every week, worthwhile dining and drinking gems can occasionally...

Music review: The organist at Organ Piper Pizza

Tyler Maas

June 3, 2016

// For more than 40 years, metro Milwaukee has been fed and entertained by Organ Piper Pizza, a one-of-a-kind restaurant and music palace buried deep in the guts of Greenfield. As the name suggests, Organ P...

We had Masked Intruder’s Officer Bradford eat and review a dozen Honeydip Donuts

Tyler Maas

June 3, 2016

// Today is National Donut Day. Though virtually everyone is prone to enjoying the sugary breakfast pastry from time to time, no group is more aligned with the donut—for better or worse—than police officers...

I ate Dave Begel’s “Top 10 Milwaukee foods to eat while you are driving” while I was driving

Kevin Mueller

June 2, 2016

// A growing (yet still rarely followed) tenet of internet culture is that you should avoid spreading articles you don't like on social media. A comically oblivious article can generate more traffic through...

Yield Bar has closed

Tyler Maas

May 27, 2016

// After more than a decade in business, Yield Bar screeched to an abrupt stop at bar time this morning. According to sources within the business, Thursday night (or bar time Friday morning) was the end of ...

First Impression: Karl Ratzsch Restaurant

Tommy Ciaccio

May 26, 2016

// It seems silly and even a little arrogant in 2016 to be writing up a First Impression for an institution that predates the first World War, but the newest iteration of Karl Ratzsch's, and how it came to ...

Tuk’s Thai Kitchen is closed

Tyler Maas

May 24, 2016

// As first reported by OnMilwaukee, Tuk's Thai Kitchen—the latest in a long line of restaurants to try their luck at 1000 E. Locust—has closed its doors for good. The restaurant was opened in July of 2014 ...

Bounce Milwaukee is offering non-English-speaking customers a free scoop of Purple Door Ice Cream

Matt Wild

May 19, 2016

// In the wake of Leon's Frozen Custard's controversial "English-only" policy (and threatened alley fight), many Milwaukeeans are up arms, taking to the Internet to voice their pleasant, sensible, and toler...

Nick’s House is having a going-out-of-business “yard sale”

Matt Wild

May 16, 2016

// Earlier this month we brought you news that Nick's House—the former Y-Not III that was given a Bar Rescue overhaul in 2014—was, in the parlance of Bar Rescue host John Taffer, SHUTTING IT DOWN. Now, the ...

Urban Bay View will open next weekend

Tyler Maas

May 14, 2016

// Last May, we broke news that Tonic owner Paul Jonas would be opening a new Bay View bar called UC Jonas' in the site Gerry’s Diamond Tap (939 E. Lincoln Ave.) had occupied from 1987 through 2014. More th...

Help Purple Door Ice Cream and Bounce Milwaukee name new flavor

Tyler Maas

May 11, 2016

// Ever since Bounce Milwaukee opened two years ago, Purple Door has been the Bay View-adjacent inflatable fun zone's exclusive ice cream provider. Evidently the bond between the two young businesses is str...

Bar Rescue seemed to actually work for Campbell’s Irish Pub

Tyler Maas

May 9, 2016

// As we reported last week, Nick's House—the East Side dive formerly known as Y-Not III until Bar Rescue turned it into a '70s-themed bar and Smirnoff vodka emporium—closed its doors for good in the wee ho...

Bar Rescue can’t rescue Nick’s House from Bar Rescue

Tyler Maas

May 6, 2016

As first reported by OnMilwaukee.com last night, Nick's House is closing. Back in September 2014, we broke news that popular SPIKE TV "reality" series and thinly veiled Smirnoff commercial Bar Rescue was com...

Tucked Away: The Big Eazy

Tommy Ciaccio

May 3, 2016

// For much of the country, New Orleans is a city with an identity that lands somewhere within well-worn stereotypes of the glittery debauchery of Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras and the well-publicized tr...

Board game bender: 5 places to enjoy a game and a drink on International Tabletop Day

Rob Wieland

April 27, 2016

// Not long ago, playing a board game at a bar was an exercise in sadness. It was usually some beat-up old copy of Trivial Pursuit with 90 percent of the questions about Richard Nixon or Mork & Mindy. B...

Tracklist: 16 quintessential Milwaukee patios

Milwaukee Record Staff

April 20, 2016

// If we Milwaukeeans seem overly patio-happy come springtime, can we really be blamed? The weather finally starts to get its shit together, the previous 8,000 years of winter begin to fade away, and the on...

First Impression: Wauwatiki

Tyler Maas

April 19, 2016

// Wauwatosa nightlife is changing. After long existing as Milwaukee's quiet and kind of uptight neighbor, recent years have seen the suburb's dining and drinking identity improve mightily and grow exponent...

Quintessential Tour brings world-class winemakers Milwaukee’s way

Kyle Johnson Cherek

April 18, 2016

// There was a time when Milwaukee was derided for its lack of culinary depth. We were long on Germanic food, nailed knackwurst, eintopf, and kartoffelpuffer, but according to the national food press, short...

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