Getaways
Milwaukee
You’ll learn a lot about Lakefront Brewery Boone & Crocket is just four years and even more about the brewing process old but is already established as one of and the history of the industry in Milwaukee’s best places for a drink. Be Milwaukee. If you’re lucky, prepared for the hipster you’ll find a spot in the tour vibe amongst the taxidermy, lead by brewery co-founder but like all of Milwaukee, Jim or Russ Klisch, you’ll be welcomed into hilarious guys who love the fold quickly, especially their beer and this city. after sipping on brandy And at the very end Old-Fashioneds oak-aged of the tour, a thrill awaits in barrels suspended above for baseball fans, as the the bar. If you come here original Bernie Brewer hungry, you’re in luck, as chalet from the old Mitch Ciohon is outside at Milwaukee County Gypsy Taco, a food truck Stadium lives on in the built into the bar’s patio. The Milwaukee Art Museum. brewery. The brothers Palm Tavern wears bought the chalet and barrel the look of a 4-tap dive bar when the stadium closed after the 2000 but inside feels anything but, with red season, preserving a piece of city history textured walls warming the room. You’ll in the most appropriate place possible. find an extensive selection of rare beers and liquors you won’t know what to do If you stop in on a Friday, try the fish with, but the bartenders will. fry, one of the best in the city, and the cheese curds are fantastic. If you do hit the tavern crawl, plan on a hefty morning-after breakfast. For this, Classic Pub Crawl you can’t do better than Comet Café and Taverns don’t come any better than Blue’s Egg. Expect to wait for a seat, but those in Milwaukee, which boasts more know it will be worth it. bars per capita than any city in America. Another favorite is Honeypie, tucked If you can get comfortable around Packers into a quiet corner of Bayview, where you and Brewers hats, you can be comfortable can dart across the street for coffee at at a Milwaukee bar, for few waste breath Fuel Café while you wait for your seat on pretension. to open up. Tucked into a jagged side street where If breakfast isn’t your thing but you it blends into the homes surrounding it, need a greasy fix, head to Solly’s Grille Wolski’s is the definition of a Midwestern and plop yourself at the counter for the neighborhood bar with great bartenders, Solly burger — a third pound of ground free popcorn and real dart boards. If sirloin mixed with butter, cooked in you’re still around at closing time, you’ll butter and placed on an onion roll take home the iconic “I closed Wolski’s” with butter. bumper sticker from a bar repeatedly Finally, before you leave the city, hailed as one of the best in America. make a pitstop for a Wisconsin must-have If you’re in the mood for a classic — frozen custard. Some will point you cocktail, you’ll have plenty of options. to Gilles, others to Leon’s, and those are Bryant’s is Milwaukee’s oldest cocktail both fine choices, but the recommendation lounge — dating to 1938 with a feel to here is Kopp’s, where you can watch the match — and offers $5 Old Fashioneds custard ooze out of the machine like and other specials from 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. concrete, teasing you into thinking you on weeknights. can eat more than is possible. n 24 JUNE 2016 | WWW.WESTSUBURBANLIVING.NET | WEST SUBURBAN LIVING
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