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First Impression: Story Hill BKC

Todd Lazarski
Joining the fashionable deep-fried downhome-ness of Maxie’s and the hash brown-y over-popularity of Blue’s Egg comes Story Hill BKC, restaurant number three from owner Dan Sidner and chef/owner Joe Muench. Here...

Changing of The Vanguard

Tyler Maas
As part of this weekend’s Bay View Bash, highly anticipated specialty sausage bar The Vanguard will be selling cased meats in front of its yet-to-be-completed property. The pop-up sausage station will grant eag...

Mike Brenner vs. Milwaukee

Matt Wild
//Last month, upstart beer baron and longtime provocateur Mike Brenner (you may know him from such films as The Great Bronze Fonz Dust-Up Of 2007) stayed true to his shit-starting ways by penning a doozy o...

First Impression: Tuk’s Thai Kitchen

Todd Lazarski
The foodist winds of fate have not blown kind on the corner building at 1000 E. Locust Street. Native Riverwesterners scoff at the patchy history, and inactive Facebook pages whisper of yesterday’s discarded cr...

Tracklist: 9 excessive drink garnishes

Tyler Maas
//Lately, your Facebook feed has undoubtedly been cluttered with eulogies for Robin Williams, reactions to the abuse of power in Missouri, and videos of people courageously dousing their head with cold wat...

Last Impression: VIA Downer

Tyler Maas
More often than not, a restaurant closure comes as the result of some combination of factors like poor sales, health violations, or an irreparably bad reputation, or as a reaction to stiff competition sprouting...

First Impression: Goodkind

Matt Wild
If the concept of a musical supergroup can be ported over to the world of food and drink, then the newly opened Goodkind (2457 S. Wentworth Ave., 414-763-4706) certainly fits the all-star bill. Owned and operat...

Defying “Dirty Dining” at No. 1 Chinese

Tyler Maas
By the time you finish reading this sentence, you will have ingested 20 milligrams of fecal matter. Okay, maybe that’s not accurate (THAT’S A HARD MAYBE!), but there’s no denying that most of us consume some pr...

Yelp Roulette: Prodigal Gastropub

Rachel Seis
For those who can’t handle the responsibility of perfectly catering to the differentiating palates of a group of people, choosing a restaurant can be a crippling experience. Many times in life, when faced with ...

Bar Rescue is scouting Milwaukee locations

Tyler Maas
According to a Redditor called Drunk Jesus, popular SPIKE TV series/thing you reluctantly watch when you’re still up at 4 a.m., Bar Rescue, was recently at longstanding North Avenue-adjacent tavern Y-Not III. F...

First Impression: Rocket Baby Satellite Café

Tyler Maas
It usually works the other way around. Traditionally, restaurants and bars test their mettle within Milwaukee's stringent city limits before casting franchise feelers to the suburbs. Bel Air Cantina opened in '...

New festival is the taco the town

Tyler Maas
The taco is a food that's deeply connected to Milwaukee's rich and distinct culinary tradition. With that in mind, Swarmm Entertainment Group—whose mission statement is "to ignite and fulfill the human imaginat...