Tag: West Allis

El Impostor will bring tacos and tequila to West Allis this fall

August 17, 2026

Have you been hankering for a new tacos and tequila place in West Allis? How about a tacos and tequila place in West Allis that has an elaborate backstory involving a world-traveling luchador and the culinary d...

Neon sign outside Mama Mia's in West Allis, Wisconsin

Sunday Sauce: Mama Mia’s serves up history, chicken parm, serious garlic bread

Mitch DeSantis

July 26, 2026

Sunday Sauce is a monthly Milwaukee Record series about the area's Italian food, the places, the people, and the traditions that make a meal feel like home. I'm chasing how these restaurants, grocery stores, ev...

A store in West Allis only sells Rice Krispies treats. We sampled some of its most unusual flavors

Tyler Maas

May 18, 2026

Welcome to Food/Drink Week at Milwaukee Record, brought to you by Woodman's Markets. From May 11 through May 18, belly up and enjoy adventurous, odd, and elaborate coverage of all things edible and drinkable...

Here’s the music lineup for West Allis’ Food Truck Friday

Tyler Maas

April 27, 2026

West Allis rules. Beyond being the host city for Wisconsin State Fair, the misunderstood and maligned Milwaukee suburb is also home to some great bars and breweries (including one that makes our new beer!), som...

Indoor pickleball facility The Picklr will open in West Allis on April 11

Matt Wild

April 7, 2026

One year after it was first announced, indoor pickleball facility The Picklr is set to open in West Allis. The Picklr, a.k.a. "North America's fastest-growing and largest indoor pickleball franchise," will c...

Caulfield’s has closed

Tyler Maas

March 28, 2026

Following a 15-month run in West Allis, Caulfield's (7413 W. Greenfield Ave.) has closed. Owner Casey Rataczak announced the sudden closure of the wine bar on restaurant on social media Saturday night. The post...

The City of West Allis wants YOU to vote on names for its snowplows

Tyler Maas

January 13, 2026

UPDATE (1/20/26): After a week of voting and more than 3,400 submissions, the winning plow names have been picked. Drum roll please... Ctrl-Salt-Delete Chicken Plow Mein Plowie McPlowface *** In the past m...

26 photos of West Allis’ new Slingshot Bar, where you can shoot slingshots in a bar

Matt Wild

October 10, 2025

Ready...aim...fire! Slingshot Bar—a.k.a. Bars & Recreation's new activity bar at 6325 W. National Ave. in West Allis—is open for business! Just be sure to wear proper eye protection (provided) and sign a wa...

Jungle-themed Slingshot Bar will open in West Allis in October

Matt Wild

September 23, 2025

Back in April, ever-busy "experiential entertainment" group Bars & Recreation announced the impending opening of a slingshot bar called, well, Slingshot Bar, at 6325 W. National Ave. in West Allis. Now, the...

From biking to baking: The Bread Pedalers bring flour power to West Allis

Tyler Maas

July 3, 2025

For years, West Allis existed as a regional punching bag that was primarily known for being the birthplace of Liberace, home to Wisconsin State Fair, and a misunderstood suburb that many loved to judge but few ...

Here are music lineups for West Allis’ Food Truck Friday and Summer Concert Series

Tyler Maas

April 8, 2025

West Allis rules. Beyond being the host city for Wisconsin State Fair, the misunderstood and maligned Milwaukee suburb is also home to some great bars and breweries, some excellent restaurants, and two places t...

West Allis is getting an indoor, 10-court pickleball facility

Matt Wild

April 3, 2025

It was just yesterday that we brought you the news that West Allis is getting a slingshot bar. (Yes, a slingshot bar.) And now, perhaps inevitably, we're here to report that the city is set to get an indoor pic...

Here are music lineups for West Allis’ Food Truck Friday, Farmers Market, and Summer Concert Series

Tyler Maas

June 6, 2024

West Allis rules. Beyond being the host city for Wisconsin State Fair, the misunderstood and maligned Milwaukee suburb is also home to some great bars and breweries, some excellent restaurants, and two places t...

Enjoy Every Fish Fry: West Allis’ Steak House 100 pairs timeless ambiance with great fish

Caleb Westphal

December 8, 2023

Caleb Westphal hasn't missed a Friday fish fry since 2013. Follow his never-ending adventures HERE. This week: fish fry #518, Steak House 100 in West Allis, Wisconsin. On Sunday, September 20, 2015, I attend...

The last word on Archie’s Flat Top, a soon-to-be West Allis standby

Tyler Maas

October 10, 2023

Damn. Where did summer go? As always, the season was a crazy, busy, plan-filled blur that flew by in what seemed to be an instant. Now that fall has emphatically announced its presence and the action has (mostl...

The City of West Allis announces Food Truck Friday dates

Press Release

May 16, 2023

THE CITY OF WEST ALLIS ANNOUNCES FOOD TRUCK FRIDAY DATES FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – May 16, 2023 – WEST ALLIS, WIS – Celebrate summer with a unique dining experience in the City of West Allis! Food Truck Fridays ...

I found another West Allis restaurant that makes gigantic mozzarella sticks

Tyler Maas

February 17, 2022

It happened again. I went to West Allis this week and I came back with some laughably large mozzarella sticks. Before I get to that, let's go back in time a little bit. In October 2020, I wrote an article en...

Here are some of our favorite West Allis bar names

Tyler Maas

August 12, 2021

The Wisconsin State Fair is now in full swing. Every August, the multi-day event brings folks from all over the Midwest to West Allis for oodles of interesting and indulgent foods, live performances, rides and ...

West Allis is going all in on the regional-inside-joke bar and brewery names

Matt Wild

March 11, 2021

To paraphrase Agent Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks: When two separate West Allis drinking establishments, both with names that play on regional inside jokes, get profiled by two separate Milwaukee publications on ...

A West Allis pizzeria makes the biggest mozzarella sticks I’ve ever seen

Tyler Maas

October 14, 2020

If you're reading this article, that means you decided to click on the story. Unless you did so by accident, I'm willing to bet you opened this link because you wanted to see exactly how massive the mozzarella ...

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