Food/Drink

The Phoenix Cocktail Club will rise in Cathedral Square on New Year’s Eve

December 15, 2016

This December 31, many people in Milwaukee will bid farewell to 2016 with a drink in hand. Over in Cathedral Square, The Phoenix Cocktail Club (785 N. Jefferson St., 414-539-5918) will be saying a long-overdu...

Milwaukee mouthfeel: 2016 drinking, dining, and patio recap

Tyler Maas

December 14, 2016

While so many have already declared 2016 to be a down year in, well, years to be alive, at least Milwaukee can take solace in knowing there has maybe never been a better time to eat or drink delicious things ...

Summon the dead (and living) to partake in all things agave at Cempazuchi

Ross Salchow

December 12, 2016

Brady Street—and the Lower East side as a whole—is filled with unique shops, bars, and restaurants. It probably isn't exactly fair to single out Cempazuchi as the brightest flower in the field, but it is inhe...

Third Space Brewing will start offering public tours December 10

Tyler Maas

December 5, 2016

In a year that found close to 10 breweries either opening in or relocating operations to Milwaukee, Third Space Brewing could very well be the best of the bunch. With its small-but-sturdy batch of West Coast-...

The Jazz Estate returns as a resurrected classic

Matt Wild

December 2, 2016

Hollywood has spent the past decade perfecting the art of the "soft reboot." Films like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Trek, and Jurassic World all essentially function as reboots of their respective long...

Here are the best beer names at every brewery in Wisconsin

Tyler Maas

November 30, 2016

Thursday night, Milwaukee Record will be releasing our very own beer into the world. Our collaboration with Company Brewing combines the Riverwest microbrewery's already delicious Night Rye'd Porter with caca...

Try Milwaukee Record’s new beer and support local organizations

Tyler Maas

November 23, 2016

Hey! Guess what. Milwaukee Record has its own beer!In effort to raise more money for our upcoming Local Coverage benefit (January 13 at Turner Hall), we've partnered with Company Brewing to collaborate on...

McDonald’s has cheese curds now (in Milwaukee, at least) and they’re okay

Matt Wild

November 22, 2016

In the whiz-bang and artery-hardening world of fast food, there exist magical places known as test markets. These are cities, or sometimes entire states, that are frequently graced with new fast food menu ite...

Milwaukee Record’s holiday (and holiday-adjacent) beer round-up

Tyler Maas

November 22, 2016

Lowlands Group is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week. Since opening Cafe Hollander on Downer Avenue in 2006, the restaurant group has ballooned to seven locations—with another set to open next year—an...

Vermutería 600 (el bar at Hotel Madrid): An Ernest Hemingway-themed bar comes to Walker’s Point

Ross Salchow

November 21, 2016

It’s about damn time someone opened up an Ernest Hemingway-themed bar. The man is known as much for his literary masterpieces as he is for his drinking prowess. Some of the upper-tier drinking quotes are penn...

Hot ‘n Now or never: Driving thru the edge of extinction

Tyler Maas

November 17, 2016

It's said nothing lasts forever, but that isn't always true.In this insatiable era of nostalgia, reunions, reissues, and arbitrarily-numbered lists of minutia only kids can understand, anything simply ce...

The Randoms 2016: Best new Milwaukee microbrewery (not originally from Milwaukee)

Milwaukee Record Staff

November 15, 2016

broadstreet.zone(54421); With the city currently in the throes of local awards fever, Milwaukee Record presents The Randoms, a series of highly specific and delightfully arbitrary “best of” awards that do away...

The Randoms 2016: Best pizza business inside of a bar (Bay View)

Milwaukee Record Staff

November 15, 2016

1840 Brewing Company to open in Bay View next spring

Tyler Maas

November 15, 2016

At the tail end of an extraordinarily fruitful year for Milwaukee microbreweries, it's looking as if the brewery boom is going to continue into 2017. Soon, 1840 Brewing Company will join local newcomers Good ...

First Impression: Mango’s Cafe

Tyler Maas

November 4, 2016

For a while there, Milwaukee was a one tiki bar town. After Lucky Joe's Tiki closed shop last fall to focus on its Alchemy & Eatery offshoot in Wauwatosa, Foundation was pretty much the only truly dedicat...

Cafe Hollander Downer will undergo renovations to celebrate 10th anniversary

Milwaukee Record Staff

October 31, 2016

For the past decade, Cafe Hollander on Downer Avenue has served as a reliable standby of the East Side's dining scene. Now, the longtime restaurant is planning to celebrate its 10th anniversary with some fres...

First Impression: Third Space Brewing

Tyler Maas

October 31, 2016

It's not outlandish to call 2016 the year of Milwaukee's brewery boom. Following decades with a microscopic microbrewery climate, at least for a metropolis that calls itself Brew City, this calendar year alon...

Here’s what Vanguard’s “Hook, Line & Sinker” Halloween pop-up will serve Saturday night

Tyler Maas

October 28, 2016

About two weeks ago, we alerted you to the fact that Bay View bar, sausage joint, and occasional Kyle Kinane performance venue The Vanguard would be spending the night of Saturday, October 29 dressed up as re...

First Impression: Like Minds MKE

Tyler Maas

October 20, 2016

Stop us if you've heard this one before. A small brewing operation begins in Wisconsin and quickly makes a name for itself among local hopheads. The output (which is contract brewed at a brewery in Green Bay)...

There’s a barrel of great brewery events in Milwaukee this fall

Tyler Maas

October 20, 2016

Tonight marks the first meeting of the Milwaukee Record Beer Club. Basically, we've partnered with Lakefront Brewery to give away free beer for two hours (or while supplies last) at a bar in or around Milwauk...