Let's start with this admission - L'Etoile is one of my all-time favorite restaurants. Over the last 25 years, L'Etoile in Madison and Sanford in Milwaukee have defined the best of dining in the state of Wisconsin. In 2005, Tory Miller moved from chef de cuisine to owner of L'Etoile and has wonderfully nurtured the [...]
Category: Restaurants
New Restaurant Added – The Old Fashioned, Madison, WI
When we add a new restaurant to our Restaurant page, we choose a representative dish which best captures the Great Lakes Cuisine concept on the currently offered menu. With The Old Fashioned in Madison, WI, we could have easily listed the entire menu. This is an updated take on all that is best of the [...]
New Restaurant Added – Odd Duck
Odd Duck in Milwaukee, WI is an absolutely wonderful little restaurant. If this were a restaurant review, I would gush about the diversity of the menu, the inventiveness on display in nearly every dish, the brilliant execution on each small plate presentation. But this is not a restaurant review so our focus here is on [...]
Definitions and the Occasional Odd Duck
This post will be a bit longer and more esoteric than many of our posts as we attempt to lay-out a fundamental problem at the very core of our efforts here. A recent video discussion between Kyle Cherek and Ardent’s chef/owner Justin Carlisle was featured here recently as something of a raison d'être for this [...]
New Restaurant Added – Ardent, Milwaukee WI
A recent review of Justin Carlisle's new venture, Ardent in Milwaukee, WI, Carol Deptolla of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel expressed her appreciation this way: "Ardent's inaugural menu in particular said Wisconsin to me, with some dishes that evoked supper clubs, if their chefs had put in time at the Greenbrier in West Virginia, Gramercy Tavern [...]
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