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Carryout Chronicles: Taco Moto
It’s an unprecedented and incredibly difficult time for restaurants right now. Wanting to highlight local establishments who are keeping food quality high while also keeping its customers and employees...
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Trixie Mattel’s Chipotle burrito bowl and 13 should-be ‘Drag Race’ fast food...
Not all brand collaborations make sense at first glance. Like Lil Wayne x American Eagle, Cheetos x Forever 21, and Susan G. Komen x KFC before them, the latest collaboration between e.l.f. Cosmetics...
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Egg & Flour Pasta Bar’s Wauwatosa location will open next week
Back in January, Egg & Flour—a pasta bar concept founded by restaurateur Wes Shaver and chef/recent Hell’s Kitchen contestant Adam Pawlak—announced plans to open its third location, and its first...
View ArticleWest Allis is going all in on the regional-inside-joke bar and brewery names
To paraphrase Agent Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks: When two separate West Allis drinking establishments, both with names that play on regional inside jokes, get profiled by two separate Milwaukee...
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McDonald’s brought back Hi-C Orange Lavaburst and it’s finally available in...
The light at the end of the tunnel keeps getting brighter (and oranger). Why? Because MCDONALD’S BROUGHT BACK HI-C ORANGE LAVABUST AND NOW IT’S AVAILABLE IN MILWAUKEE. FINALLY. Yes, according to a Hi-C...
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Carryout Chronicles: Company Brewing
It’s an unprecedented and incredibly difficult time for restaurants right now. Wanting to highlight local establishments who are keeping food quality high while also keeping its customers and employees...
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Ruta’s will bring “lively and fresh Indian-inspired cafe” to Crossroads...
Crossroads Collective (2238 N Farwell Ave., 414-763-9081) will soon feature Indian cuisine. YES. Ruta’s is set to open in the popular East Side food hall on April 8. The self-described purveyor of...
View ArticleSave Our Spots restaurant fundraiser returns
On March 19 of last year, C.J. Krawczyk and his wife Julie celebrated his birthday by organizing a fundraising campaign to give some of their favorite restaurants “a lifeline until government relief...
View ArticleTaco John’s is still planning to open in Milwaukee
Last spring, we alerted you to the uplifting news that Taco John’s—a “West-Mex” fast food chain that has more than 400 locations in 27 states—had announced plans to add 10 to 12 locations in the...
View ArticleMiller Lite is making “Bar Smells” scented candles
As many of us are continuing to remain isolated and socially distant in the (hopefully) late throes of a (hopefully) diminishing pandemic, some surely miss their favorite local bars a great deal....
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Black Husky Brewing will give you a free beer with proof of COVID-19 vaccination
There are countless reasons to get your COVID-19 vaccination. If things like keeping yourself and those around you safe, not needlessly killing any more strangers, restoring a pandemic-addled economy,...
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Here are the participants for WMSE’s 19th annual Rockabilly Chili, “Super...
WMSE’s annual, glorious, can’t-miss, god-we-miss-it Rockabilly Chili fundraiser is going to be a little different this year. From April 5-11, instead of cramming into the MSOE Kern Center, you’ll be...
View ArticleTenuta’s To Go has closed
After nearly to two years of operation on the edge of Bay View at 3902 S. Whitnall Ave., Tenuta’s To Go has closed. On March 27, owner Frank Tenuta made an announcement on the takeout-only restaurant’s...
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Milwaukee bars and restaurants share reopening plans for in-person service
The bars and restaurants are reopening, Milwaukee. While many joints have remained full-on open throughout the pandemic, many haven’t, choosing instead to keep their doors closed to in-person service....
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Nite Owl is open for the season
With the longer days, rising temperatures, and Bob Uecker’s voice on the radio, it’s beginning to feel a lot like spring in Milwaukee. The season technically started 10 days ago, but something was...
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Carryout Chronicles: Hungry Sumo Sushi Bar
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A century of sliders: Celebrating White Castle’s 100th anniversary at the...
There is little awareness of the presence of royalty driving to and through Kenosha. The journey to Wisconsin’s only White Castle (11730 75th St., 262-857-2500) is littered with billboards propagating...
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Hey! Here’s the schedule for the 2021 Traveling Beer Garden
Hey! Do you like drinking? Do you like drinking in parks? Then you’re in luck, because Milwaukee County Parks’ ever-popular Traveling Beer Garden is returning for 2021. YES. The beer/park extravaganza...
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Louie’s Char Dogs & Butter Burgers is open on the East Side and it’s good
Back in February we hipped you to a place called Louie’s Char Dogs & Butter Burgers, opening soon at 2336 N. Farwell Ave.—a.k.a. the little strip mall on the East Side where Blockbuster used to be....
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Shout-out to the old Chancery on Downer, which has been empty for 14 years
On March 31, 2007, the Chancery closed its doors on Downer Avenue. The space that the popular restaurant had occupied, 2575 N. Downer Ave., has been empty ever since. Yep, it’s been empty for 14 years....
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