Do People From Chicago Really Vacation in Milwaukee? (Mark: best city, safe)

[Chi-town Native]

Originally Posted by cubssoxfan

The Brauhaus closed down its nice/gemutlich bar?! Perhaps you mean they are not exclusively bars. But then if a bar serves burgers or pizza is it also not a restaurant? Went to Goose Island when it first opend and several years after B.S (before suburbs)and I thought of it as a bar & a restaurant.

bingo.

[Vlajos]

Originally Posted by Chi-town Native

bingo.

I think 666 is just trying to be idiotic.

[Chi-town Native]

Originally Posted by Vlajos

I think 666 is just trying to be idiotic.

probably, but as I'm fresh from a weekend playing such lovely tunes as "Roll Out the Barrel" with my dad (he used to sit in with the house band at Zum Deutschen Eck) , I'm feeling my Kraut drinking chops are up to the debate.

[Vlajos]

Originally Posted by Chi-town Native

probably, but as I'm fresh from a weekend playing such lovely tunes as "Roll Out the Barrel" with my dad (he used to sit in with the house band at Zum Deutschen Eck) , I'm feeling my Kraut drinking chops are up to the debate.

Zum Deutschen Eck was the best!

[Chi-town Native]

Originally Posted by Vlajos

Zum Deutschen Eck was the best!

I have always wanted to know the story behind the super-bizarre stained glass scene above the bar - as I recall, it was a traditionally dressed Bavarian type with both of his legs in giant glass steins of beer up to his knees. I asked the bartender once, and he looked at me like I had accused him of murder.

[Tex?Il?]

Originally Posted by neilworms2

Yes it has, and yes you'll see yuppies, but the atmosphere is genuinely German at those bars, as are the beer selections. You can't go wrong at these places for that. There are no true German enclaves left in the US to my knowledge (unless there is some weird NYC neighborhood I don't know about :P) so the best you're going to get is atmosphere and beer selection, not so much German immigrants at these kinds of places.

And tying back to my off topic Cincy comparison, shockingly Cincy only really has 3 places that evoke its German heritage, Mecklenbourg Gardens, Lenhardt's and the Haufbrauhaus in nearby Newport, KY :P. For a city that once was bilingual and had the largest German population in the US (yes larger than Milwaukee) this is pathetic.

While nothing even close to the eastern European immigrant population, there are quite a few German expats working at global companies in Chicagoland (more so than any other country west of the former Iron curtain) and most of them at least know about Lincoln Square and/or have been there.

[666northstate]

Originally Posted by Vlajos

I think 666 is just trying to be idiotic.

The guy I first responded to said:

Originally Posted by neilworms2

You should visit Lincoln Square, plenty of actual German bars that have amazing beer selections

and then you mentioned:

Originally Posted by Vlajos

Yep, and go to the Brauhaus or Mirabell on any given night and you will hear german being spoken by customers.

Of which only one of those restaurants is in Lincoln Square to begin with.

I would love to know the names of the plenty of German bars in Lincoln Square. There really are not that many and the ones that are tend to be over run with yuppies on any given night. Don't believe me?

[Vlajos]

Originally Posted by 666northstate

The guy I first responded to said:



and then you mentioned:




Of which only one of those restaurants is in Lincoln Square to begin with.

I would love to know the names of the plenty of German bars in Lincoln Square. There really are not that many and the ones that are tend to be over run with yuppies on any given night. Don't believe me?

Two things were being discussed. German places in Chicago vs. other cities and drinking establishments. I mentioned two good ones that are very german, more so many places in the US. Sorry it doesn't fit your box.

[Milwaukee City]

As far as Milwaukee German drinking spots I can only think of Old German Beer Hall | German Food and Dining | Beer Steins | Milwaukee and the Schwabenhof, The Bavarian Inn and Mader's Restaurant | Milwaukee Restaurants | German Cuisine Restaurants and then Karl Ratzsch's-Milwaukee's Landmark -German-American Restaurant-Home, Kegel's Inn German Restaurant Milwaukee Wisconsin, Gasthaus Restaurant, Golden Mast Inn, Ritter's Inn, Kochanski's Beer Hall, Bavarian Wurst Haus, House of Hamburg. You know just off the top of me head.

If you ever want to play some Hammerschlagen then go to The Old German Beer Hall. Milwaukee is still the most german city in the US.

[Chi-town Native]

so we are in fact going to take a mini-vacation to Milwaukee this weekend - we're staying at the Ambassador at 2308 West Wisconsin Avenue, any suggestions regarding breweries/brewpubs and decent vegetarian-friendly dining options? the Lakefront Brewery seems to be the winner according to Yelp, and is close to the hotel.

we're not fancy, the standard veggie burger most brewpubs have definitely works.