Yelp Roulette: Prodigal Gastropub
For those who can’t handle the responsibility of perfectly catering to the differentiating palates of a group of people, choosing a restaurant can be a crippling experience. Many times in life, when faced with ...
I failed Red Rock Saloon’s “Unforgiven Challenge”
I’ve always been able to eat a lot. Even before I was a love-handled and beer-gutted walking (with some discomfort) Wisconsin male stereotype, I could always put away more food than those around me—usually at a...
Plastic tray dining: A tour of Milwaukee’s downtown cafeterias
When people talk about Milwaukee’s “downtown dining” scene, they’re usually talking about upscale restaurants that wouldn’t feel out of place in a tourism video scored by Peaches’ “Downtown.” Millioke, Carnevor...
Tracklist: 11 Milwaukee restaurants we wish were still open
Milwaukee is in the throes of Downtown Dining Week. From June 5-12, “Milwaukee’s Favorite Feast” gives diners an incentive to try downtown restaurants, as 40 cafes, bars, bistros, grills, and gastropubs scatter...
Tracklist: 11 Milwaukee bars that could use rescuing
Last week, we revealed that Spike TV mainstay Bar Rescue is scouting a Milwaukee location to salvage with its tried and true bar-saving formula of screaming at people and using high-end technology given to them...
Bar Rescue is scouting Milwaukee locations
According to a Redditor called Drunk Jesus, popular SPIKE TV series/thing you reluctantly watch when you’re still up at 4 a.m., Bar Rescue, was recently at longstanding North Avenue-adjacent tavern Y-Not III. F...
First Impression: Rocket Baby Satellite Café
It usually works the other way around. Traditionally, restaurants and bars test their mettle within Milwaukee's stringent city limits before casting franchise feelers to the suburbs. Bel Air Cantina opened in '...
New festival is the taco the town
The taco is a food that's deeply connected to Milwaukee's rich and distinct culinary tradition. With that in mind, Swarmm Entertainment Group—whose mission statement is "to ignite and fulfill the human imaginat...
Milwaukee’s best: Talking beer with local musician-bartenders
For many Milwaukee musicians, pursuing their passion isn’t enough to pay the bills—an additional day and/or night job is needed. (Note: This is true for most non-musicians, as well.) So what better gig to pursu...
Tracklist: 10 beers* to avoid during Milwaukee Beer Week
Unofficially, every week of the year is Beer Week in Milwaukee. Between the staggering number of drinking establishments, ever-present standing among the drunkest cities in America on inane lists, rampant local...
First Impression: Who’s On Third
If Research & Development Pub taught us nothing else, we learned that sometimes a bar can overcome a stupid-ass name to prove itself a worthwhile establishment for one to spend time and money. April 19 mark...
First Impression: Cream City Swirl
Bay View is in the midst of a restaurant renaissance. The chunk of southeast Milwaukee—which already has such feathers as Odd Duck, Guanajuato, both DeMarinis, Palomino, Classic Slice, and Hué proudly stuck in ...
First Impression: Wild Bill’s Sports Saloon
Milwaukee’s south side isn’t for want when it comes to chain restaurants. The airport-adjacent slice of the city has no shortage of dining establishments to welcome visitors to town with a corporately standardi...
First Impression: R&D Pub
What’s in a name? When it comes to the means of identifying an establishment that specializes in the sale of items customers ingest, quite a lot. An appetizing name is key. That failing, nomenclature that’s at ...
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