Category Archives: Milwaukee

Eastsider | Oakland and North, Milwaukee

By pdo | Published: January 21, 2010
Shot, bar dice, shot, bar dice, shot, bar dice, shot.  There’s a group at the other end of the bar that’s getting serious about this drinking thing.  We’re waiting at the Eastsider for a table at the soon-to-burn Pizza Man Restaurant and Wine Bar nursing beers in anticipation of its mega wine list.  They’re settling [...]
Posted in Milwaukee | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Dammit, the Pizza Man Wine Bar and Pizza Place Burned Down in Huge East Side Fire | Milwaukee

By pdo | Published: January 19, 2010
A few weeks ago, I was in Milwaukee and had a night free.  I had heard good things about the Pizza Man (an “East Side institution”) — good wine list, great pizza, fun atmosphere — and it was all true.  A great place.  And today it burned down.  Damn! I barely knew it and I [...]
Posted in Milwaukee | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Pfister Lobby Bar | Milwaukee, WI

By pdo | Published: April 5, 2009
I think it’s because hotel bars can charge more, and because of the lack of crowds or the land-locked clientele, they have to or they can.  But the service seems better, more attentive.  The assumption, perhaps, is that you’ve already dropped $200 a night on a room, so the drink you just ordered had better [...]
Posted in Milwaukee | Tagged | Leave a comment

Brocach Irish Pub | Milwaukee, WI

By pdo | Published: January 27, 2009
I don’t even know where to start, so I ask Lisa, “Where do I even start?” She says, “Well, the service sucked.” So I’ll start there… The service sucks. We arrive and the place is empty. It’s zero out and we’ve been walking. We’re frozen and ready for a drink. We ask for a table. [...]
Posted in Milwaukee | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Sprecher Brewery | Milwaukee, WI

By pdo | Published: January 24, 2009
So, not exactly a bar, but you drink beer here, so I think it counts… Sprecher Brewery was started in 1985 after Randy Sprecher returned to Wisconsin after being stationed militarily in Germany. He brewed some beers for Pabst, returned to UC Davis for further study, returned to Wisconsin for more brewing, contemplated a California [...]
Posted in Milwaukee | Tagged , | 2 Comments

The Safe House | Milwaukee, WI

By pdo | Published: January 24, 2009
The first time I went to the Safe House I was obsessed with James Bond and probably around 13. My grandma got one of their signature drinks in one of their to-keep glasses. I called my then-girlfriend from the phone booth and told her I was at a tennis match (because the booth had sound [...]
Posted in Milwaukee | Tagged | 1 Comment

Club Brady | Milwaukee, WI

By Ben | Published: January 5, 2009
My wife, her brother and I walked across the street to Club Brady from The Nomad for a number of reasons: the music at The Nomad was so loud we couldn’t talk, there were a number of drunks singing along to the music and dropping bottles, and they had apparently not cleaned up from New [...]
Posted in Milwaukee | Tagged , | 2 Comments

Nomad World Pub | Milwaukee, WI

By pdo | Published: December 9, 2008
Attributed by many, incorrectly, to be Ben’s favorite bar. But I can see why. The place has a good vibe. Kind of transient but with regulars — the world-weary mingle with the never-been-out-of-towners. Grab a stool at the chipped granite bar and you’ve got a temporary home. If you tour the Lakefront Brewery, you’ll get [...]
Posted in Milwaukee | Tagged , | 2 Comments