Skylight’s “Taste of the Ward” a delicious fundraiser
The event brings eight Third Ward restaurant to the Broadway Theatre Center for an evening of food and drink samples supporting the Skylight.
Looking for a new way to please your palate this weekend? One new event coming to Milwaukee may have what your taste buds are looking for: Taste of the Ward, a fundraising event hosted by Skylight Music Theatre that gathers eight of the Third Ward’s most well-known restaurants for a unique culinary evening.
While this isn’t the first time “Taste of the Ward” has been thrown around as a dining event – the Historic Third Ward’s Summer Sizzle jazz festival, on hiatus this year, hosted a day-long event by the same name in 2011 – it’s the first such event hosted by Skylight, according to Becca Kitelinger, the Skylight’s development director. She said the event will feature dishes from eight different Third Ward restaurants: Indulge, Club Charlies, Swig, Water Buffalo, Verduras Tea House and Cafe, Coquette Cafe, Smoke Shack, and Kasana Cafe.
While Skylight’s spring fundraiser has historically been a more introverted, low-key wine and cheese tasting event, Kitelinger says she and the company wanted to shift direction this year. “We wanted to change things up,” she said. More importantly, they wanted to include their friends and neighbors in the area, and thought Taste of the Ward was the best way to do that. “This type of a fundraiser is a great way for us to bring many of our Third Ward neighboring businesses together where everywhere can benefit.”
Taste of the Ward will take place Thursday, May 9, from 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m., with a performance of Skylight’s Sing Me A Story immediately afterward. Tickets are $45 per Taste Ticket (per individual) or $135 for two VIP tickets, including tickets for Taste of the Ward and Sing Me a Story (VIP tickets are $67.50 individually). To get tickets, email Becca Kitelinger at beccak@skylightmusictheatre.org, order online or call (414) 299-4962.
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