First Impression: Cafe India
If the name of Milwaukee’s newest Indian restaurant sounds familiar, it should. Perhaps you noticed the Cafe India sign while gassing up at the Walker’s Point Mobil station. Maybe you even threw caution to the ...
Bar Rescue is rescuing Y-Not III this week
A few months ago, we told you that popular SPIKE TV series Bar Rescue was in town scouting Milwaukee locations to, well, rescue. Yes, one lucky Brew City bar was being considered for Jon Taffer’s unique brand o...
We ordered Burger King delivery because that’s a thing you can do now in Milwaukee
Back in 2012, fast-food giant and all-American tax-dodger Burger King rolled out a new, terrifying service: home delivery. No longer would slovenly and undiscriminating eaters in selected cities have to suffer ...
First Impression: Story Hill BKC
Joining the fashionable deep-fried downhome-ness of Maxie’s and the hash brown-y over-popularity of Blue’s Egg comes Story Hill BKC, restaurant number three from owner Dan Sidner and chef/owner Joe Muench. Here...
Changing of The Vanguard
As part of this weekend’s Bay View Bash, highly anticipated specialty sausage bar The Vanguard will be selling cased meats in front of its yet-to-be-completed property. The pop-up sausage station will grant eag...
Mike Brenner vs. Milwaukee
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Last month, upstart beer baron and longtime provocateur Mike Brenner (you may know him from such films as The Great Bronze Fonz Dust-Up Of 2007) stayed true to his shit-starting ways by penning a doozy o...
First Impression: Refuge Smoothie Cafe (Bay View)
Bay View's a-changing. It's hard to muster vitriol against the outstanding restaurants popping up (and those soon to open) in the transitional southeastern Milwaukee neighborhood, but some longtime residents st...
First Impression: Tuk’s Thai Kitchen
The foodist winds of fate have not blown kind on the corner building at 1000 E. Locust Street. Native Riverwesterners scoff at the patchy history, and inactive Facebook pages whisper of yesterday’s discarded cr...
Tracklist: 9 excessive drink garnishes
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Lately, your Facebook feed has undoubtedly been cluttered with eulogies for Robin Williams, reactions to the abuse of power in Missouri, and videos of people courageously dousing their head with cold wat...
First Impression: Holey Moley Coffee + Doughnuts
Tiny dogs, shiny Beemer's, yoga pants, ballroom dancing, something called Zumba–fat guy fried dough and to-the-thighs icing might seem out of context in the pummeling, snowballing yuppification of the Old Third...
Milwaukee beer gardens serve up beer (and big-ass pretzels)
Barhopping on Water Street can be fun—in moderation. Watching freshly turned 21-year-olds stumbling from bar to bar, or groups of tone-deaf girls belting out Katy Perry songs can be highly entertaining, but it ...
Last Impression: VIA Downer
More often than not, a restaurant closure comes as the result of some combination of factors like poor sales, health violations, or an irreparably bad reputation, or as a reaction to stiff competition sprouting...
First Impression: Goodkind
If the concept of a musical supergroup can be ported over to the world of food and drink, then the newly opened Goodkind (2457 S. Wentworth Ave., 414-763-4706) certainly fits the all-star bill. Owned and operat...
Defying “Dirty Dining” at No. 1 Chinese
By the time you finish reading this sentence, you will have ingested 20 milligrams of fecal matter. Okay, maybe that’s not accurate (THAT’S A HARD MAYBE!), but there’s no denying that most of us consume some pr...
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...