Carryout Chronicles: Classic Slice
It’s an unprecedented and incredibly difficult time for restaurants right now. It’s especially tough for restaurants in Wisconsin, where COVID-19 numbers are currently off the charts. Wanting to highlight local...
Centraal Grand Cafe & Tappery installs outdoor “streetcar” seating
What happens when you combine restaurants, winter, a pandemic, and heated outdoor seating partially inspired by Milwaukee's favorite form of public transportation? "Streetcar on Lincoln," of course, an outdoor ...
Ray’s Wine & Spirits will make 2021’s Wückfinter into “a virtual Wückening”
In early 2019, Wauwatosa beverage bastion Ray’s Wine & Spirits and Indiana's 3 Floyds Brewing joined forces to help metro Milwaukee battle the winter blues with an outdoor celebration of beer in defiance of...
Yep, a honky tonk bar called Nashville North is coming to the former Up & Under, and nope, we don’t know anything else about it, either
As first reported by Urban Milwaukee and then reported by OnMilwaukee and now reported by us, a honky tonk bar called Nashville North is apparently coming to the former Up & Under Pub, 1214 E. Brady St. "Co...
X-Ray Arcade is going to offer pizza bagel and virtual concert “combo meals”
Earlier this week, X-Ray Arcade celebrated two years in business. Unfortunately, the Cudahy-based arcade, bar, and music venue has been unable to safely host concerts or allow people inside to play games for ne...
Carryout Chronicles: Bamboo Restaurant
It’s an unprecedented and incredibly difficult time for restaurants right now. It’s especially tough for restaurants in Wisconsin, where COVID-19 numbers are currently off the charts. Wanting to highlight local...
New holiday alert: Celebrate the inaugural Friday Fish Fry Day on February 19
There's a "national day" for just about everything. Isn't it about time that the beloved Wisconsin tradition of the Friday fish fry gets its own day, too? YES. YES IT IS.And so let it be known, fish fry fan...
Carryout Chronicles: Gold Rush Chicken
It’s an unprecedented and incredibly difficult time for restaurants right now. It’s especially tough for restaurants in Wisconsin, where COVID-19 numbers are currently off the charts. Wanting to highlight local...
Mi Pais serves up hot dogs and mini tortas, snacks and shots, more
There are places that feel like home. They make you feel safe, there's food, and there are people who remind you of your own family or warm memories. Mi Pais (1401 W. Greenfield Ave., 414-935-2567) provides all...
Phobruary forges on with “Pho To Go!” format in 2021
Since 2014, VIA CDC (a community organization formerly known as Layton Boulevard West Neighbors) has organized a month-long celebration aimed at highlighting the abundance of excellent Asian-owned eating establ...
Rocky Rococo movie posters, ranked
Thousands of people dying terrible, isolated deaths each and every day as millions of selfish and/or brainwashed Americans blatantly and repeatedly show they simply do not care about others. The probable end of...
WMSE’s 19th annual Rockabilly Chili is coming to a restaurant, cafe, and food truck near you
If our records are correct, WMSE's 18th annual Rockabilly Chili Fundraiser—held on March 8, 2020—was one of the last big things we did before everything went down the drain. Thousands of people packed into the ...
Carryout Chronicles: Transfer Pizzeria Café
It’s an unprecedented and incredibly difficult time for restaurants right now. It’s especially tough for restaurants in Wisconsin, where COVID-19 numbers are currently off the charts. Wanting to highlight local...
Iron Grate BBQ Co. has launched a “South Side Soup MKE” virtual restaurant
In case you missed last week's installment of our Carryout Chronicles series, Iron Grate BBQ Co. is committed to serving up excellent barbecue and incredible southern sides in an exclusively to-go capacity. If ...
Carryout Chronicles: Iron Grate BBQ Co.
It’s an unprecedented and incredibly difficult time for restaurants right now. It’s especially tough for restaurants in Wisconsin, where COVID-19 numbers are currently off the charts. Wanting to highlight local...
Egg & Flour Pasta Bar to open Wauwatosa location in March
Back in early 2019, a new pasta bar concept called Egg & Flour opened its first location in the Crossroads Collective food hall on Milwaukee's East Side. Less than a year after that, the restaurant—which wa...
Mandatory Milwaukee: Bay View Packing Co. has made pickled delicacies for discriminating palates since 1923
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Some places come and go, while some places become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples with fresh eyes, and exp...
Prospect Avenue Colectivo closed “until further notice”
As first reported by OnMilwaukee, the Colectivo Coffee cafe at 2211 N. Prospect Ave. on Milwaukee's east side is closed. A sign on the door says the location is "temporarily on hiatus." (A previous sign stated ...
Snack Boys makes pandemic pivot to “Plant Boys”
For many Milwaukee businesses, 2020 and 2021 will go down as the "pivot" years: Taking once thriving business models and trying something new and different—anything new and different—in order to stay afloat ami...
Milwaukee health order limiting bars and restaurants with previously approved full-capacity safety plans to 50% capacity will expire Friday, thus allowing bars and restaurants with previously approved full-capacity safety plans to return to full capacity
It couldn't be simpler: A Milwaukee health order limiting bars and restaurants with previously approved full-capacity safety plans to 50% capacity will expire on Friday, January 15, thus allowing bars and resta...