Harry’s on Brady is closed after more than three years
Buyer will open Pete’s Pub as ‘a tavern for everybody’
Harry’s on Brady, a second location of Harry’s Bar and Grill in Shorewood, has closed after more than three years on the lower east side. A new business called Pete’s Pub will open there, perhaps as soon as March.
The website for Harry’s on Brady directs customers to visit the Shorewood location, at 3549 N. Oakland Ave. A note on the door of the restaurant at 1234 E. Brady St. says the closure does not affect the Knick restaurant, 1030 E. Juneau
Ave.
All three restaurants had the same owner, Elias Chedid. Chedid said he received an offer he “couldn’t refuse” for the business on Brady.
The owner of the new business is Peter Marshall, who was one of the partners who opened the nearby Jack’s
American Pub in 2013, at 1323 E. Brady. He stepped back from the bar business in 2015 to start a family, and now, he said, “I’m excited to get back into it.”
Marshall, a native of England who moved to Milwaukee in 2008 to pursue his MBA at Cardinal Stritch University, said Pete’s Pub will have “a slight British flair,” but won’t be a British pub.
Pete’s Pub will have “simple American pub fare with great ingredients, is what we’re planning,” Marshall said.
The bar will have some craft beers and a small cocktail menu. “It’s going to be a tavern for everybody, try and cater to all tastes and flavors,” Marshall said.
The configuration of the space will be changed to feel more like a tavern than a restaurant, Marshall said.
“It’s such a beautiful space, though, that there’s really very little to be done,” he said. “We’re going to have a very laidback atmosphere,” probably adding a pool table and games, Marshall said.
“Elias worked really hard to maintain the history of the building,” Marshall said, and he added he would respect that history. For one thing, Marshall said he is keeping the saw-shaped sign, which has been part of the exterior since hardware store days.
The location is the former site of a longtime hardware store that closed in 2015. The building’s developer initially planned to lease the space to a tavern, the Northwoods-themed Camp Bar, but it ran into opposition from the district’s alderman and the neighborhood association. Opponents said Brady Street had enough bars and needed more restaurants or shops.