September Restaurant News – Shepherd Express

Openings

Curry & Momo Home Himalayan Restaurant (6969 N. Port Washington Rd., Glendale) opened to a flurry of company wanting to attempt genuine house fashion recipes from the Himalayan Area of Nepal and India. Specialties embrace the MoMo, a Nepali dumpling. In keeping with a put up on the restaurant’s web site, it serves dinner Tuesday by way of Sunday from 4 to 9 p.m. and can increase service after they rent extra workers.

MilTexKitchen, positioned contained in the Paper Desk Co. digital meals corridor (733 N. Milwaukee St.), touts it’s “the place Milwaukee meets large Texas taste.” Menu gadgets embrace large brisket burgers alongside Wisconsin staples like fried cheese curds. There’s additionally Friday barbeque and Soul Meals Sundays. Proprietor and chef Raven Bivens Gee was born and raised in Milwaukee and lived in Houston, the place she began a catering enterprise.

Paper Desk Co.’s idea is just like a ghost kitchen that helps foodie start-ups. Clients can order by way of GrubHub, UberEats and Door Sprint.

Discourse, the experimental espresso purveyor based in Door County, has opened a second Milwaukee location inside the Milwaukee Artwork Museum. Search for drinks such because the Beetnik, a sous vide espresso that includes candied pistachio milk, apple-beet powder and edible flowers, and In Bloom’ Crenn, a jasmine tea based mostly drink with lemon juice, lavender and cured sumac.

Donut Monster will open a 3rd location at W62 N634 Washington Ave., in Cedarburg. The restaurant options scratch-made doughnuts, breakfast sandwiches and occasional.

Maggio’s Wooden-Fired Pizza will open at 7212 W. North Ave., Wauwatosa, within the former Tosa Bowl and Bun and Venturi’s Market. Proprietor Jeremy Maggio began the enterprise in a wood-fired pizza trailer in 2017.

The Related Financial institution River Middle (111 E. Kilbourn Ave.) will associate with F Avenue Hospitality to open a bar, a number of quick-service eating choices and a espresso store of their riverfront workplace tower behind the Saint Kate Arts Lodge. The undertaking is anticipated to be accomplished by spring 2023.

Reopening

Palomino (2491 S. Superior St.) has reopened for drinks, scratch-made bar snacks and treats, with service every Friday and Saturday from 5 p.m. to midnight, and Sunday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The total kitchen stays quickly closed.

This and That

Robots proceed to assist fill staffing shortages within the service trade. Among the many newest Milwaukee space eateries to deliver a Servi robotic server/busser on board is State Avenue Pizza Pub. The workers at State Avenue Pizza Pub wish to rename Servi and is taking strategies from clients. Submit an thought together with your pizza order; in case your suggestion is chosen, you’ll obtain free pizza for one month.

A brand new a bimonthly dinner sequence referred to as Chef Paul Funk: Unframed debuts at Saint Kate on Oct. 20. The sequence showcases Chef Funk’s tastes and culinary abilities to supply one-of-a-kind experiences to company. The primary dinner, Angels & Cowboys—A Wine Dinner, will function a five-course meal with wines from Angels & Cowboys vineyard, in Sonoma County. A Farm to Desk dinner follows Dec. 2, and the Valentine’s Day-themed Love within the Darkish rounds out the sequence Feb. 10.

Wisconsin’s oldest restaurant, Pink Circle Inn (N44 W33013 Watertown Plank Street, Nashotah), has been acquired by Geronimo Hospitality Group. The restaurant and occasion venue, based in 1848, has has been owned by the likes of Fredrick Pabst and Aat Groenevelt, the proprietor and founding father of Provimi Veal. Geronimo owns different companies within the Lake Nation space, together with hospitality manufacturers in Beloit., Boise and Indianapolis.

Bartolotta’s Lake Park Bistro has introduced again its broadly fashionable à la carte menu with basic favorites comparable to Soupe a l’Oignon (basic French onion soup), Moules Marinières (steamed mussels in white-wine cream broth), Escargots à la Bourguignonne (Burgundy snails with Pernod garlic-parsley butter beneath flaky puff pastry crust) and Pâté de Campagne (nation pork pate served with cornichons, Meaux mustard and heat baguette).

Jackson Grill has gained a 2022 Consultants’ Selection Award, an accolade based mostly on skilled evaluations from greater than 100 publications comparable to journey guides, magazines and newspapers.

Benson’s Restaurant Group has named Rik Acken as normal supervisor and Steve Gustafson as government chef of The Bridgewater Fashionable Grill, which can open in October alongside the Kinnickinnic River at 2011 S. 1st St., within the Harbor District.

Closures

Polonez Polish restaurant (4016 S. Packard Ave., St. Francis) served their final pierogi Sept. 28. The Milwaukee space’s final remaining Polish restaurant, recognized for potato pancakes, Polish sausage, cabbage rolls and different Polish and Japanese European cuisines, first launched practically 4 a long time in the past within the shadow of the Basilica of St. Josaphat, within the outdated Polish South Facet neighborhood, earlier than relocating to St. Francis in 2001. House owners George and Aleksandra Burzynski plan to retire.

After 9 years in enterprise, Riverwest Filling Station (701 E. Keefe Ave.) closed. The venue was recognized for its craft beer choice, together with a menu of pub staples and globally influenced delicacies.