Food/Drink

High Dive coming soon to former Impala Lounge

July 22, 2015

Since December 2014, the building at 701 E. Center St.—formerly Impala Lounge, and before that River Horse—has been empty. What was once a lively and quintessentially Riverwest-y Riverwest bar has been little m...

Pabst is coming back to Milwaukee (sort of)

Matt Wild

July 15, 2015

Back in 2014, a grassroots effort sprung up with the aim of bringing Pabst Brewing Co. back to Milwaukee. The so-called “Bring PBR Home” campaign turned out to be more froth than beer, but the dream remained: b...

First Impression: The Thirsty Duck

Tyler Maas

July 9, 2015

For hundreds of years, mankind has willingly left the comforts of home no matter the conditions and resigned itself to the concept of paying inflated bar prices for drinks that sometimes take upwards of five mi...

Bacon Bottom Porker Pizza, “Hot Mess” burger top list of 101 new State Fair food things

Matt Wild

July 7, 2015

Wisconsin is filled with many traditions—the first day of Summerfest, the rubber-duck race at Mayville’s annual Audubon Days—but none reach the giddy and artery-clogging heights of the Wisconsin State Fair. Whe...

23 bread-free Summerfest foods to eat when Smash Mouth plays

Tyler Maas

July 5, 2015

In case you don't recall or if you haven't kept up on the current events of musical footnotes of the late '90s and early 2000s, Steve Harwell—heretofore known as "the dude from Smash Mouth"—flipped the fuck out...

Tracklist: 6 Safe House improvements we’d like to see

Rob Wieland

June 22, 2015

Local movie money moguls Marcus Corporation announced late last week their purchase of perennial tourist bar Safe House for an undisclosed sum. With nerd bars popping up all over the city and kitsch theme pubs ...

In search of Milwaukee’s most authentic Mexican restaurants

Todd Lazarski

June 16, 2015

We’ve all been there: sleeves rolled up, paper napkins scrunched in palm, grease trail trickling dangerously down the forearm as you angle another tortilla torpedo of mystery meat at your mouth, all the time th...

Tracklist: 13 Milwaukee music-inspired beers we’d totally drink

Tyler Maas

June 15, 2015

In one of the cooler and more boozy bits of cross-promotion in recent memory, Sprecher Brewing Company and WMSE recently joined forces to release SMASH Ale. The “single malt and single hop” (the first letters o...

First Impression: Agave Southwest Bar & Grill

Kristina Byas

June 9, 2015

When it was rumored back in January that Espana Tapas House would be replaced by a Southwestern-themed restaurant, many were interested to see just what cuisine the new establishment planned to bring to Milwauk...

Tracklist: 12 unexpected places to get drunk in Milwaukee

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 8, 2015

For better or worse, it’s possible to stand virtually anywhere in the city of Milwaukee, close your eyes, walk 20 paces, and find a place to get a drink. If you can’t find a nearby bar or tavern in Milwaukee, n...

Celebrate the return (and restoration) of Von Trier’s Colnik chandelier

Matt Wild

June 4, 2015

Nestled in the broiling bro-dom of North Avenue is Von Trier, a longtime East Side German-themed bar that boasts an agreeably dim, rustic, and foosball-less ambience. It’s the place you go when you’re too old f...

Milwaukee start-up cocktail company SoulBoxer debuts ready-to-drink Brandy Old Fashioned

Matt Wild

June 1, 2015

Is there anything more sublime, more delicious, more Wisconsin than a Brandy Old Fashioned? Probably not. The drink of choice for craft cocktail enthusiasts and sheepshead-playing grandparents alike, the Brandy...

First Impression: Company Brewing

Matt Wild

May 27, 2015

When news broke last fall that Company Brewing would be replacing Stonefly Brewing at 735 E. Center St., it was greeted with a fevered enthusiasm usually reserved for new “placemaking” initiatives or Milwaukee ...

First Impression: Colour Palate

Tyler Maas

May 22, 2015

There's no shortage of places to eat in Downtown Milwaukee. Shit, there's even a Downtown Dining Week to help tout the myriad of eating options—at least until half of them close at 4 p.m.—in this segment of the...

Table Top Hobby Game Shop won’t stop until the orcs drop

Rob Wieland

May 19, 2015

Milwaukee’s nerd community is getting spoiled these days. The city has several excellent comic book shops to help folks keep current on today’s big crossover events that will become tomorrow’s tentpole summer b...

Taco Tuesday Of Reckoning: I ate at every Milwaukee Taco Bell in 8 hours

Tyler Maas

May 14, 2015

What constitutes a hero? Heroes aren’t born. Heroes are made. A hero is fashioned from bravery put to use when times get tough, harvested from experience incurred on the field of battle, and nourished by the ad...

7 Milwaukee patios that make you feel like you’re not in Milwaukee

Rachel Seis

May 14, 2015

All winter long, Milwaukee waits in chilled anticipation of that first nice day of summer. When the mercury rises to a temperature we haven’t seen in months. When we stumble forth from our homes, drawn into the...

42 Ale House brings extra life to St. Francis

Tyler Maas

May 7, 2015

In an alternate timeline, 42 Lounge—Milwaukee’s first and, by general consensus, best geek-themed bar—could have been a massive, 35,000 square-foot nerd embassy marooned way out in Waukesha. The possibility was...

Tonic Tavern owner to open second Bay View bar

Tyler Maas

May 6, 2015

Since 1987, Gerry's Diamond Tap—a Bay View gem that was relatively hidden on the quiet corner of Logan and Lincoln avenues—was a quaint and character-laden South Shore dive where a diverse selection of neighbor...

At Random is NOT for sale anymore

Tyler Maas

May 1, 2015

Apparently it's a seller's market.On Wednesday morning, we broke the news that iconic Bay View cocktail lounge At Random was listed for sale by the Boerke Company for a $399,000 asking price. Two days later...