Tag: Wonder Bar

Saying goodbye to Wonder Bar (and hello to Biersal Tavern)

March 5, 2024

The liminal edge between Wauwatosa and Milwaukee is getting a new bar. Well, it's an old bar getting a major upgrade. A 100-plus-year-old building at 5520 W. Vliet St. will soon reopen as Biersal Tavern. It ...

Wonder Bar has closed

Tyler Maas

July 17, 2023

UPDATE (7/18/23): As expected, 5520 W. Vliet will be the new site of Biersal, a bar for which service industry veteran Eric Gutbrod was recently raising funds to open in Washington Heights. Read more about Gutb...

Milwaukee will try to break the Guinness record for “simultaneous beer can opening,” which seems doable

Matt Wild

August 20, 2018

Despite the occasional "Oof, we've gotta slow down," Milwaukeeans love to drink. Is that a good thing? It can be. Is that a bad thing? It can be. Can we use our drinking prowess for good and break the Guinness ...

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