First Impression: Company Brewing
When news broke last fall that Company Brewing would be replacing Stonefly Brewing at 735 E. Center St., it was greeted with a fevered enthusiasm usually reserved for new “placemaking” initiatives or Milwaukee ...
First Impression: Colour Palate
There's no shortage of places to eat in Downtown Milwaukee. Shit, there's even a Downtown Dining Week to help tout the myriad of eating options—at least until half of them close at 4 p.m.—in this segment of the...
Table Top Hobby Game Shop won’t stop until the orcs drop
Milwaukee’s nerd community is getting spoiled these days. The city has several excellent comic book shops to help folks keep current on today’s big crossover events that will become tomorrow’s tentpole summer b...
Taco Tuesday Of Reckoning: I ate at every Milwaukee Taco Bell in 8 hours
What constitutes a hero? Heroes aren’t born. Heroes are made. A hero is fashioned from bravery put to use when times get tough, harvested from experience incurred on the field of battle, and nourished by the ad...
7 Milwaukee patios that make you feel like you’re not in Milwaukee
All winter long, Milwaukee waits in chilled anticipation of that first nice day of summer. When the mercury rises to a temperature we haven’t seen in months. When we stumble forth from our homes, drawn into the...
42 Ale House brings extra life to St. Francis
In an alternate timeline, 42 Lounge—Milwaukee’s first and, by general consensus, best geek-themed bar—could have been a massive, 35,000 square-foot nerd embassy marooned way out in Waukesha. The possibility was...
Tonic Tavern owner to open second Bay View bar
Since 1987, Gerry's Diamond Tap—a Bay View gem that was relatively hidden on the quiet corner of Logan and Lincoln avenues—was a quaint and character-laden South Shore dive where a diverse selection of neighbor...
At Random is NOT for sale anymore
Apparently it's a seller's market.
On Wednesday morning, we broke the news that iconic Bay View cocktail lounge At Random was listed for sale by the Boerke Company for a $399,000 asking price. Two days later...
At Random is for sale
At Random—known for its specialty cocktails, surly servers, and sporadic hours of operation—is usually nestled somewhere between Bryant’s and (insert other local bar du jour) on the onslaught of online “Best Ba...
First Impression: Van Buren’s Whiskey Bar And Grill
With the recent wave of theme bars, lounges, dance club/pizza restaurant hybrids (RIP, Crisp!), and national beer bar franchises (Don't RIP, World Of Beer!) sprouting up on and around the already night life-equ...
First Impression: Binary: Games, Food & Spirits
Milwaukee is known for having a bar on every corner, with many of those bars featuring a theme. Sports bars work because it’s awesome to share the thrill of victory with a room full of fans. Irish bars offer a ...
Hey Food Dude brings drive thru to you
Whether you work a third shift job, you drank too much to drive, or you're without wheels and just can't justify calling a Lyft to bring you to the Taco Bell drive thru at 1:30 a.m. on a Wednesday, Jeff Lampton...
Attention beautiful people: It’s time to save the Uptowner
When it comes to beloved Milwaukee neighborhood dive bars that stubbornly refuse to go gentle into that gentrified good night, the Uptowner is one of the finest. Located on the northwest corner of Center and Hu...
First Impression: Strada Pizza
For whatever reason, the piece of property at the bustling corner of Lincoln and Howell Avenues has been known to attract a particular type of business: Mexican restaurants. After serving as Taqueria Azteca's b...
Meat, er, Meet The Vanguard in Meet Milwaukee’s latest video
Hey! You hear about this Vanguard place? Of-fucking-course you have. Since soft-opening late last October, the Bay View bar and sausage purveyor has been lauded by numerous Milwaukee publications (present compa...
First Impression: Xankia
One of the boons to living anywhere long enough is getting to know the hidden gems. Settle for a decade in even a mediocre food ’burg and you should be able to impress dates and out-of-towners with ethnic pearl...
First Impression: Junior’s Hook
As unfair as it is, any business that opens shop at 1517 S. Second Street will inevitably draw comparisons to a legendary former tenant of the understated Walker's Point site. In early 2012, Bomb Shelter was fo...
The age of Enlightened: Milwaukee’s newest, smallest brewery now on tap
There's an unwritten rule that's well-known but rarely followed that prohibits discussing matters of politics, religion, and philosophy when alcohol is present. Combining suds or spirits with spirited debate al...
First Impression: Nourri
When Odd Duck opened to buzz and critical acclaim in 2012, drawing favorable comparisons to Senora Small Plates herself, La Merenda, it typified a fully shifted caloric paradigm. The restaurant was right on the...
First Impression: Daddy’s Soul Food & Grille
It’s easy to forget that we live in the most segregated city in the country. But cruise west out of Downtown on Wisconsin Avenue and there exists a microcosm of Milwaukee’s racial and economic divide: the plush...