RESTAURANTS

A SELECT LIST OF MILWAUKEE’S BEST DINING ESTABLISHMENTS.

BY NEIGHBORHOOD

DOWNTOWN/THIRD WARD/CENTRAL Alem Ethiopian Village Amilinda Bacchus Bavette La Boucherie Buckley’s Restaurant and Bar Carnevor Coquette Cafe County Clare Dandan Restaurant Dream Dance Steak Elsa’s on the Park Harbor House Jing’s Chinese Restaurant Mason Street Grill Merriment Social Milwaukee Chophouse Pastiche Bistro & Wine Bar Peking House Stella Van Buren (Westin Hotel) Third Coast Provisions Tre Rivali Zarletti

EAST SIDE/RIVERWEST/BREWERS HILL Ardent Balzac Wine Bar Beerline Cafe Café Corazón Café at the Plaza Carini’s La Conca d’Oro Casablanca Middle Eastern Restaurant Centro Cafe Ethiopian Cottage Restaurant FreshFin Poké Good City Brewing Lake Park Bistro Pizza Man Red Light Ramen by Ardent Rice ’n Roll Bistro SALA Sanford Restaurant Supper Tess Wolf Peach Zaffiro’s

NORTH SIDE The Tandem SHOREWOOD/NORTH SHORE (INCLUDING MEQUON) Cloud Red Crave Bar and Food Mr. B’s– A Barolotta Steakhouse Pastiche Bistro & Wine Bar Zarletti Mequon

SOUTH CITY (INCLUDES BAY VIEW) C-viche

Café Corazón Goodkind Hello Falafel Honeypie

Iron Grate BBQ Co. Lazy Susan Odd Duck Palomino Polonez Taqueria El Cabrito Three Brothers Bar & Restaurant Triskele’s Vanguard Bar

S./S.W. SUBURBS Fujiyama Jackson Grill Kyoto

Pizza Man

WALKER’S POINT Bodegón (Hotel Madrid)

Bowls Restaurant Braise Restaurant c.1880 Crazy Water La Merenda Morel The National Screaming Tuna

WEST CITY/WAUWATOSA/WEST ALLIS Blue’s Egg The Fitz (Ambassador Hotel) India Garden Irie Zulu Kegel’s Inn Le Rêve Patisserie & Cafe Maxie’s Pizza Man Ristorante Bartolotta Story Hill BKC Wy’east Pizza OZAUKEE COUNTY Twisted Willow

WAUKESHA COUNTY Bass Bay Brewhouse

Café Manna Fujiyama I.d. at the Delafield Hotel

Jake’s Restaurant Mr. B’s– A Bartolotta Steakhouse Tofte’s Table

BY CUISINE

AFRICAN Irie Zulu

AMERICAN Bass Bay Brewhouse Bavette La Boucherie Blue’s Egg Café at the Plaza Crave Bar and Food Elsa’s on the Park Good City Brewing Engine Company No. 3 Goodkind Jackson Grill The National Palomino Story Hill BKC The Tandem Triskele’s

AMERICAN NOUVEAU Ardent Bacchus Balzac Wine Bar Bodegón (Hotel Madrid) Braise Restaurant Buckley’s Restaurant and Bar c. 1880 Crazy Water The Fitz (Ambassador Hotel)

Honeypie Lazy Susan Mason Street Grill Merriment Social Morel Sanford Restaurant Supper Tess Tofte’s Table Tre Rivali Twisted Willow Wolf Peach

BAR Cloud Red

BBQ Iron Grate BBQ Co. Maxie’s

BREAKFAST Blue’s Egg Café at the Plaza Engine Company No. 3

BOWLS (POKE, SMOOTHIE, GRAIN) Bowls Restaurant FreshFin Poké

BURGER Elsa’s on the Park

CAJUN/CREOLE Maxie’s

CHINESE Dandan Restaurant Jing’s Chinese

Restaurant Peking House

ETHIOPIAN Alem Ethiopian Village Ethiopian

Cottage Restaurant

FRENCH Coquette Cafe Lake Park Bistro Le Rêve Patisserie & Cafe Pastiche Bistro & Wine Bar GERMAN Kegel’s Inn

INDIAN/PAKISTANI India Garden

IRISH/AMERICAN County Clare

BY NAME

ALEM ETHIOPIAN VILLAGE

307 E. Wisconsin Ave., 414-224-5324. Ethiopian Entrées are served on a wafer-thin, spongy pancake made of teff. Here, diners are encouraged to eat with their hands. The beef and lamb stews are especially good. $$

ITALIAN Carini’s La Conca d’Oro Centro Cafe Ristorante Bartolotta SALA Stella Van Buren (Westin Hotel) Zarletti Zarletti Mequon

JAMAICAN Irie Zulu

JAPANESE Fujiyama Kyoto Red Light Ramen by Ardent Rice ’n Roll Bistro Screaming Tuna

MEXICAN Café Corazón Taqueria El Cabrito

MIDDLE EASTERN Casablanca Middle Eastern Restaurant Hello Falafel

PERUVIAN C-viche

PIZZA Pizza Man Wy’east Pizza Zaffiro’s

POLISH Polonez

SANDWICH Bavette La Boucherie Elsa’s

SAUSAGE Bavette La Boucherie Vanguard Bar SEAFOOD Harbor House Maxie’s Third Coast Provisions

SERBIAN Three Brothers Bar & Restaurant

SPANISH/PORTUGUESE Amilinda

STEAK Carnevor Dream Dance Steak Jake’s Restaurant Milwaukee Chophouse Mason Street Grill Mr. B’s– A Bartolotta Steakhouse Stella Van Buren (Westin Hotel)

SUPPERCLUB Jackson Grill Supper

TAPAS/SMALL PLATES I.d. at the Delafield Hotel Balzac Wine Bar La Merenda Odd Duck

THAI Rice ’n Roll Bistro

VEGAN Beerline Cafe Café Manna

VEGETARIAN Beerline Cafe Bowls Restaurant Cafe Manna Cloud Red Hello Falafel