Chicken tenders to go, outside arena
With no fans in the seats, Fiserv Forum is instead feeding the public at large with its new chicken-tenders-to-go business called Cream City Cluckery.
Fiserv Forum chef Kenneth Hardiman developed the recipes for the pickupand delivery-only business in the Deer District, which launched Wednesday, the Milwaukee Bucks announced. The Bucks own and operate the takeout restaurant; it’s run by the food and beverage staff of Fiserv Forum, separate from the arena’s restaurants.
“We kind of have gotten used to this new world of ordering food online and getting it delivered during the pandemic,” said Justin Green, vice president of hospitality for the Milwaukee Bucks. They considered opening a ghost kitchen of some sort — a restaurant with takeout and delivery but no storefront — and realized there was no fried-chicken tenders operation downtown.
“We really felt it was a missing piece,” Green said.
Hardiman already had a recipe for tenders but made some adjustments — using Milwaukee beer — and added the house sauces, handmade drop biscuits and other items to the menu.
Besides the tenders — which start at $7 for three pieces, up to $25 for 20 — and house-made sauces and biscuits, Cream City Cluckery’s brief menu includes fried chicken sandwiches, macaroni and cheese, and butter cake. The full menu is at
A portion of butter cake sales will go to the Milwaukee Bucks Foundation.
Cream City Cluckery hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Delivery is through GrubHub, DoorDash and UberEats. For pickup, customers order through the website or by phone, (414) 422-6992.
Pickup is at 400 W. Highland Ave., at a sign for the business on the south side of the plaza outside the arena. Customers call to have orders brought to them.
New place for tacos on west side
The makeover of the little 1926 building at 5419 W. North Ave. is complete, and Paloma Taco and Tequila now is open for takeout and dining inside or outside.
Pattie Ford opened her restaurant shortly before the Fourth of July, with a lineup of appetizers, tacos, tostadas, burrito and torta. Prices range from $3 for chips and salsa with free refills to $12 for the burrito or torta.
Besides chicken, chorizo and other meaty options, Paloma has items that feature seafood (like the tuna tostada, $5) and are vegetarian (Brussels sprouts tostada with cotija cheese, $4) and vegan (crispy tofu taco, $4).
The drinks list includes the namesake Paloma ($8, grapefruit juice, lime, tequila and soda), among other cocktails (nonalcoholic versions, $5), as well as bottled Mexican and domestic beers and a few wines.
For the neighborhood dogs, the menu has the Fat Puppy, a flour tortilla with peanut butter and banana for $3, and a tie-up is on the exterior for dogs whose people enter the restaurant.
Besides colorful picnic tables on the sidewalk (6 feet apart for social distancing), the restaurant has a walk-up window for picking up takeout and curbside service, as well.
Diners can call in orders for takeout: (414) 810-0404. The website,
lists hours for Paloma’s kitchen as 4 to 9 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 4 to 10 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday (the menu includes a breakfast taco for weekend mornings).
Betty’s coming soon to Brady
Betty’s Burgers and Custard, a counter-service restaurant selling a variety of sandwiches, expects to open as soon as Wednesday at 1233 E. Brady St.
It’s owned by brothers James and Anthony Roufus. They had planned to open a similar restaurant called Hot Box Burger Shop at the other end of Brady last year, but that location fell through.
The brothers hope to re-create a family-friendly vibe like the Milwaukee area’s old-school burger-and-custard stands, such as Kitt’s, Kopp’s and Gilles’.
Betty’s will have single, double and triple butter burgers, several kinds of taquitos sold in threes, and sausages made by Foltz’s Family Market in the Third Ward — hot Hungarian, Polish and bratwurst served County Stadium style, with sauce.
Other sandwiches will include summer sausage and the pepito, a Venezuelan rib-eye sandwich.
A “secret” menu will have items like a Toledo-style Hungarian hot dog with a sloppy joe topping, and zapiekanka, an open-faced baguette with mushrooms, onions, melted cheese and ketchup that’s street fare in Poland.
“Our goal was to do a lot of street food prevalent in the cultures we interacted with growing up” on the south side, James Roufus said.
Betty’s will make shakes and sundaes, and it will have fountain sodas like Coke along with Wisconsin’s revived Jolly Good brand.
The number for takeout will be (414) 249-4972, or customers can walk in to order. Betty’s will have rails and hightop tables where customers can stand to eat inside, and it’s expected to have benches where people can sit outside.