First Impression: Daddy’s Soul Food & Grille

Todd Lazarski
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...

First Impression: The Brown Bottle

Todd Lazarski
To those of a certain late-20s/early-30s bent, the newly re-opened Brown Bottle harkens memories of a former downtown bastion of Thursday night specials and college-y underage drinking. To those of a different ...

Ale Asylum Riverhouse preps for December 22 open

Tyler Maas
Milwaukee has no shortage of local beer. With the abundance of breweries in town, the Brew City moniker is well-deserved. So with the sheer volume of suds produced within the city limits, it was an interesting ...

First Impression: District 14 Brewery & Pub

Tyler Maas
For every Milwaukee-area restaurant that promptly opens without warning or anticipation, approximately one dozen land nowhere near the neighborhood of their projected launch date. It’s not as much a Milwaukee-s...

First Impression: Morel

Todd Lazarski
When chef Jonathan Manyo left his native Milwaukee to cut culinary teeth on the scene in California, Cincinnati, and Portland, Walker’s Point was but a hodgepodge of old Rust Belt decay, gritty artist types, an...

First Impression: Story Hill BKC

Todd Lazarski
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...