The Wolf On Broadway Restaurant Will Anchor Kinn Guesthouse
Downtown restaurant planned by Uncle Wolfie's owners.
The Wolf on Broadway logo.
A new restaurant is coming to downtown Milwaukee as part of the development of the Kinn Guesthouse hotel.
The owners of Uncle Wolfie’s Breakfast Tavern will open The Wolf on Broadway on the first floor of the new hotel, 602-606 N. Broadway. Husband-and-wife team Wolfgang and Whitney Schaefer hope to open the business later this summer.
Three Sixty will design the restaurant interior according to an Instagram post.
The 32-room hotel is expected to open later this year. Owner Charles Bailey announced plans for the hotel in 2019. It’s his second Milwaukee hotel, following his “wildly successful” Bay View operation. The downtown project includes the redevelopment of a four-story office building originally constructed in 1868.
The Schaefers opened Uncle Wolfie’s in 2018 in a restored historic tavern 234 E. Vine St. It also includes a boutique store, Orange and Blue Co. The restaurant is one of only a handful in Milwaukee to require vaccination for dine-in eating.
In 2019, Bailey said he was drawn to the location for its proximity to the Historic Third Ward, the lakefront and streetcar line.
The new restaurant could help pull the energy of the Historic Third Ward to the north towards Wisconsin Avenue. Both Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen & Bar and Central Standard Craft Distillery‘s Crafthouse & Kitchen opened last year along E. Clybourn St. a block to the south. The Hilton Garden Inn, across from the new hotel, also rebranded its in-house bar and restaurant as The Social American Tavern.
August 2021 Construction Photos
