At Random is for sale
At Random—known for its specialty cocktails, surly servers, and sporadic hours of operation—is usually nestled somewhere between Bryant’s and (insert other local bar du jour) on the onslaught of online “Best Ba...
First Impression: Van Buren’s Whiskey Bar And Grill
With the recent wave of theme bars, lounges, dance club/pizza restaurant hybrids (RIP, Crisp!), and national beer bar franchises (Don't RIP, World Of Beer!) sprouting up on and around the already night life-equ...
First Impression: Binary: Games, Food & Spirits
Milwaukee is known for having a bar on every corner, with many of those bars featuring a theme. Sports bars work because it’s awesome to share the thrill of victory with a room full of fans. Irish bars offer a ...
Hey Food Dude brings drive thru to you
Whether you work a third shift job, you drank too much to drive, or you're without wheels and just can't justify calling a Lyft to bring you to the Taco Bell drive thru at 1:30 a.m. on a Wednesday, Jeff Lampton...
Attention beautiful people: It’s time to save the Uptowner
When it comes to beloved Milwaukee neighborhood dive bars that stubbornly refuse to go gentle into that gentrified good night, the Uptowner is one of the finest. Located on the northwest corner of Center and Hu...
First Impression: Strada Pizza
For whatever reason, the piece of property at the bustling corner of Lincoln and Howell Avenues has been known to attract a particular type of business: Mexican restaurants. After serving as Taqueria Azteca's b...
Meat, er, Meet The Vanguard in Meet Milwaukee’s latest video
Hey! You hear about this Vanguard place? Of-fucking-course you have. Since soft-opening late last October, the Bay View bar and sausage purveyor has been lauded by numerous Milwaukee publications (present compa...
First Impression: Xankia
One of the boons to living anywhere long enough is getting to know the hidden gems. Settle for a decade in even a mediocre food ’burg and you should be able to impress dates and out-of-towners with ethnic pearl...
First Impression: Junior’s Hook
As unfair as it is, any business that opens shop at 1517 S. Second Street will inevitably draw comparisons to a legendary former tenant of the understated Walker's Point site. In early 2012, Bomb Shelter was fo...
The age of Enlightened: Milwaukee’s newest, smallest brewery now on tap
There's an unwritten rule that's well-known but rarely followed that prohibits discussing matters of politics, religion, and philosophy when alcohol is present. Combining suds or spirits with spirited debate al...
First Impression: Nourri
When Odd Duck opened to buzz and critical acclaim in 2012, drawing favorable comparisons to Senora Small Plates herself, La Merenda, it typified a fully shifted caloric paradigm. The restaurant was right on the...
First Impression: Daddy’s Soul Food & Grille
It’s easy to forget that we live in the most segregated city in the country. But cruise west out of Downtown on Wisconsin Avenue and there exists a microcosm of Milwaukee’s racial and economic divide: the plush...
Geeks rejoice! 42 Ale House is coming to St. Francis
Since it opened two years ago, 42 Lounge has been a bastion for all things geek in Milwaukee and has served as a sort of embassy for gamers, cosplayers, anime fans, and Doctor Who aficionados amid a cluster of ...
First Impression: Meraki
On first glance, there isn’t a lot to distinguish Meraki, the new venture from Chad Meier, former chef at Blue Jacket. It’s doing the same thing, in the same neighborhood, as most of the rest of the Milwaukee r...
First Impression: The Pub Club
Isn't it strange how a bar can have an identity? Depending on any combination of factors like the decor, the selection, the neighborhood, the clientele, the type of music that's played, and innumerable other in...
Traveling Beer Garden Tour to return in 2015
There's truly nothing like drinking outside. If you don't recall, "outside" is that place between your home and car that you run through while muttering obscenities about four months of the year. Fortunately, M...
First Impression: The Brown Bottle
To those of a certain late-20s/early-30s bent, the newly re-opened Brown Bottle harkens memories of a former downtown bastion of Thursday night specials and college-y underage drinking. To those of a different ...
The longest brunch: Bottoming out on bottomless mimosas
Everybody loves brunch, right? Even the most hateful soul or jaded downer who vehemently abhors anything the vast majority of the population enjoys can’t resist the appeal of rolling out of bed naturally on a w...
First Impression: Red Lion Pub
In 2011, a little British pub called Three Lions Pub popped up in the northern part of Shorewood. A safe haven for soccer hooligans and an occasional karaoke host with traditional British food and a fun-loving ...
First Impression: The bar where Screech allegedly stabbed some dude on Christmas
Perhaps “Second Impression” would be a more accurate phrase for this piece, as readers throughout Wisconsin and the world as a whole initially became acquainted with Grand Avenue Saloon (550 W. Grand Ave. in Po...