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242 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: Jim Dandy’s (Oak Creek)
Caleb Westphal hasn’t missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. Villa Vista, Embassy, Skyway, Oakwood Lodge—the motels zipped past me as I headed...
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R.I.P. the dumpy Cousins Subs on the corner of Oakland and Locust
Fact #1: Cousins Subs is the best locally-owned-but-everyone-always-forgets-it’s-locally-owned sub place on planet Earth, and don’t let anyone tell you different. Better bread! Better subs! Fact #2:...
View ArticleGreat Job, Milwaukee! Gwyneth Paltrow’s awful “Goop” website likes our food
Here at Milwaukee Record, we employ a sentient machine known as the Great Job Milwaukee Bot to keep track of the city’s many appearances on dopey online lists, as well as any time a national...
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243 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: Landmark Inn (Mequon)
Caleb Westphal hasn’t missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. You’ve probably had similar thoughts. You’ve driven past a place that looked...
View ArticleHeeeere’s the theme for Odd Duck’s 2018 Halloween Feast
Some quick, obvious, and fun facts: Halloween is great. Odd Duck is great. Halloween at Odd Duck is really great. Past Halloweens have seen the ever-busy Bay View restaurant go all out with themed,...
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Food (including Friday fish fry) is coming back to Pabst Milwaukee Brewery...
It’s been a wild ride for the Pabst Milwaukee Brewery and Taproom. Since opening in April 2017, the microbrewery/taproom has revitalized a 144-year-old building in the once-shuttered Pabst Brewery...
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244 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: 5 O’Clock Club (Pewaukee)
Caleb Westphal hasn’t missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. At 4 o’clock this past Friday, I found myself seated—not at a restaurant waiting for...
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Guy Fieri was in Pewaukee last night, ate pizza (Update/Correction: Nope!)
UPDATE/CORRECTION: Welp, this is embarrassing! With numerous readers challenging the original claim made in this post, we did some digging and can now say with certainty that Guy Fieri was not at Doc’s...
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We went to a Big Boy Restaurant
Big Boy still holds a special place in Milwaukee’s heart. At one point, the classic burger chain and diner boasted more than 1,000 locations nationwide, and over 60 of those were Marc’s Big Boy...
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Relive 25 years of Colectivo with this illustrated timeline
Milwaukee is in the throes of change: new buildings replacing old buildings, new businesses replacing old businesses, new spaces “activating” old spaces. It’s a lot to take in. For decades, however,...
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Here are 15 more patios to enjoy in the last 10 days of summer
Over the last three-plus years, we’ve listed seven patios that make you feel like you’re not in Milwaukee, 16 quintessential Milwaukee patios, then 13 more goddamn patios. After that, we rounded up...
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245 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: Crawfish Junction (Milford)
Caleb Westphal hasn’t missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. I may have eaten a fish fry on every Friday for the past 245 weeks, but I have also...
View ArticleSafeHouse, AJ Bombers, country prepare for National Cheeseburger Day on...
Today—Monday, September 17—is…let’s see here…International Country Music Day! Fun! Go out and enjoy some country music (and ask us about a killer country ballad we once wrote called “Bar Dice”)!...
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FYI: Only three restaurants remain in the Grand Ave. food court
The last time we dropped by the ever-emptying Shops of Grand Avenue, we said goodbye to Boston Store. A few months before that, we paid our respects to the recently closed Rocky Rococo. Only four...
View ArticleNew Turner Hall restaurant, Tavern at Turner, set to open October 3
For more than a decade, Turner Hall Ballroom has been a gem of a venue, hosting bands and events (like our own Local Coverage!) both big and small. And for more than a decade, the restaurant on the...
View ArticleA West Allis bar will sell everything for $1 this weekend
Last month, we were excited to tell readers about The Drunk Uncle‘s unique weekend-long special, in which the West Allis bar sold “one of the greatest beers ever made” for 50 cents until bar close....
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Our Milwaukee Record Re-Porter beer is coming back (and is available in cans)
The end of summer is nigh. While the conclusion of Milwaukee’s best season is a sad occasion, it’s not all bad. The Packers are back, the Brewers are poised to make a playoff run, and another Bucks...
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246 consecutive Friday fish frys and counting: St. Paul Fish Company...
Caleb Westphal hasn’t missed a Friday night fish fry since 2013. Follow along with his never-ending adventures here. This has probably happened to you more than once. You are driving over the Hoan...
View ArticleSlow cookers and warm hearts: Boone & Crockett will host “Spoon & Crockpot”...
Some of the best aspects of Milwaukee’s amazing and ever-improving culinary scene include willingness of chefs to collaborate, the generosity among restaurateurs, and the city’s steady stream of...
View Article“This building deserves a chance to be one space”: Tavern at Turner coming...
For more than a decade, Turner Hall Ballroom has been a workhorse of the Milwaukee music scene. The Pabst Theater Group assumed operations of the historic venue in the fall of 2007, and quickly...
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