First Impression: MobCraft Beer
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While historians are quick to acknowledge the role beer played in establishing Milwaukee as a world-renowned utopia of yeast and barley beverages, there was a stretch when the "Brew City" moniker didn't ...
La Perla leaves its mark on Walker’s Point
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Last night, word came that after 21 mostly-fruitful years in business, La Perla was sold, and the restaurant will be closing its doors for good this weekend. By closing time on Saturday night, the Mexica...
Make these fancy craft cocktails using Hi-C Ecto Cooler
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Friday brings the long-awaited release of Ghostbusters to theaters everywhere. In preparation for the highly anticipated and/or dreaded reboot of the legendary 1984 film, geeks and nerds and dogs and cat...
Enlightened Brewing Company readies taproom for late July open
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Almost three years ago, Tommy Vandervort and James Larson moved their small arsenal of brewing equipment to a small, secluded room in an upper level of Lincoln Warehouse that had space for about 10 peopl...
First Impression: Urban Harvest Brewing Company
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Once regarded for such amenities as its good-to-great Mexican restaurants, sustaining a pocket of night clubs, and, well, being pretty close to 2nd Street and all its nightlife, 5th Street in Walker's Po...
There will (technically) be a bar in the basement of Grand Avenue
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When the Applebee's on Wisconsin Avenue tragically closed last month, the chain restaurant's departure didn't just leave the already-ailing Shops Of Grand Avenue with one fewer occupant, it also cost the...
We ate all the new “food items” at Summerfest
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A few weeks before the start of Summerfest 2016, the Big Gig released a list of new vendors and food items. The announcement didn't quite approach the time-honored ridiculousness of the Wisconsin State F...
Nick’s House / Y-Not III has been demolished
The building of the former Nick's House—the ultimately ill-fated Bar Rescue experiment that turned the Y-Not III into a '70s-themed bar—has been demolished. Per a photo from Urban Milwaukee, the property at 185...
Yield Bar still seeking new home, will not replace The Hotel Foster
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At 1:30 a.m. on May 27, Yield Bar's 11-year run came to a quiet and abrupt end when the beloved East Side bar closed without notice. That unexpected end turned out to be just the beginning of a different...
Colectivo Coffee is opening a Chicago cafe
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Doesn't it usually seem to work the other way around? Instead of freaking out about coming to , this time it's a Milwaukee-based business that's expanding across state lines and opening a location in th...
First Impression: Lost Valley Cider Co.
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Much like the rampant expansion craft brewing has experienced recently, the world of hard ciders is bursting with exponentially more brands that are creating exciting and new concoctions in effort to kee...
Here are the new vendors and food items coming to Summerfest 2016
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Summerfest 2016 is exactly two weeks away. The full schedule has been released, the promos have been announced, and Recorded Music is currently gearing up for another great year. But what about the food?...
We tried (and failed) “Wisconsin’s Largest Pizza Challenge” at Pizza Shuttle
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Milwaukee's East Side is changing. Though the historic neighborhood is becoming cluttered with cookie cutter apartment complexes, rent is on the rise, and chain restaurants continue to move it, a few bus...
Compliments to the chef: Area gourmets serve up cross-kitchen love
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Today marks the final day of Downtown Dining Week and, with it, the conclusion of Milwaukee Record's unofficial Food Week-type thingy we tried to do. Over the last seven or so days, we featured some Milw...
Nomad’s biergarten is now open
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Last year we hipped you to a handful of Milwaukee patios that "make you feel like you're not in Milwaukee." Entering the mix this year is Nomad World Pub's long-awaited, world-flavored outdoor biergarten...
You can “Save Yield Bar” by donating to its GoFundMe campaign
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...