My brother and I try to get together at least once a week for dinner and a drink. Our favorite destination of late has been the Palonimo. Nothing beats it’s bar food and drink specials. On previous visits - Wednesday night $2.00 Lakefront taps, Thursday night 2.50 Mexican beers & tacos as the food special. [...]

Hector’s, one of Milwaukee’s premier Mexican joints outside of the 5th and National area, which is conveniently located in my ‘hood, seemed like a good place to meet Connie and her friend Martha out for dinner and drinks after work last night. I arrived before they did so I took a seat at the bar [...]

I was lucky to have the opportunity to get out and see some really great live music last year. Here’s a list of what I saw.
Winter’s almost over and it looks like there are quite a few good shows coming to Milwaukee this spring.
Here’s what’s on my radar:
Black Lips - March 15th @ Turner [...]

Connie and I celebrated Valentine’s Day with dinner at one of the newer restaurants on the west side, Juniper 61. Being fond of the previous tennant, Shiraz, we were interested to see what they did with the place. They completely gutted it, which was a great idea considering how dated the interior had been. Not [...]

Man, I love this place. It was my first choice for lunch yesterday, but a big crowd and long wait threw a wrench in my plan. I woke up early this morning still having the itch to eat there, so I made it my breakfast and coffee destination. On previous visits I’ve usually ordered the [...]

I was running errands downtown this afternoon. It was around lunch time, so I needed to grab something. I stopped at Beans and Barley. It was packed and there was a wait. I drove down Farwell with the intention of going to Comet when I remembered that there was a newer Indian restaurant in the [...]

Reading a newspaper over breakfast and coffee is one of my favorite things to do. Changing work locations over the past few months has left me looking for a new spot.
Thanks to a recent write up in onmilwaukee.com, I decided to check out The National.
It’s such a fantastic little cafe with cool [...]