Milwaukee Downtown Dining Week Starts Tomorrow
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The single greatest week of eating in Milwaukee starts tomorrow. The fifth edition of Downtown Dining Week will kick off on June 3rd and run through June 10th. Lunch meals are available for $10, and dinner is available for $20 (or $30 at a handful of places) at numerous downtown restaurants. If you’re looking to sample a lot downtown eateries, this is your week. All meals are three courses.
Please remember to tip your servers, as food heaven for you is frequently food hell for them.
Where will you eat?
Participating Restaurants
* denotes $30 dinner
- Benihana
- Bistro 333
- Buca di Beppo
- Butch’s Old Casino Steak House
- Cafe Calatrava
- Cafe at the Pfister
- Capital Grille*
- Charro Tacos & Tequila
- Club Charlies
- Coquette Cafe
- Eagan’s On Water
- Indulge
- Joey Buona’s Restaurant
- Karl Ratzsch’s
- Kil@wat
- Knick
- Libiamo
- Louise’s
- Mader’s*
- Mason Street Grill*
- Milwaukee ChopHouse*
- Mi•Key’s*
- Molly Cool’s Seafood Tavern*
- Osteria del Mondo*
- Palms Bistro*
- Red Accordion
- RipTide Seafood Bar & Grill
- Riverfront Pizzeria
- Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery
- Sabor*
- Sake Tumi
- Swig
- Third Ward Caffe*
- Tulip
- Umami Moto*
- Ward’s House of Prime*
- Water Buffalo
- Zarletti
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OK, In general I love working and eating out downtown, but Downtown Dining Week is a joke for the most part. In general over the last handful of years I think 4 of 5 Downtown Dining Week specials have had crummy food, poor service and a long wait. There are some standouts each year, like Karl Ratzsch’s and Coquette Cafe, but in general I have been disappointed. I find it odd that restaurants put out iffy to bad food just to make money the one week a year they can tempt workers away from their corporate cafeterias.
@Dave Schlabowske The complaint I normally here is from staff about poor tipping this week… Interesting.
I am trying it for lunch tomorrow so we will see. I make sure to tip well;)