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Burgers
Not a greasy spoon per se,
M
Kewpee
(520 Wisconsin Ave., 262/634-9601, 7am-6pm
Mon.-Fri., 7am-5pm Sat., $1 and up) rates a nod as the best burger joint in perhaps all of
southernWisconsin.DevoteesregularlycomefromasfarawayastheWindyCity.Decades
old (it started in 1927), this erstwhile teen hangout doesn't have much in the way of ambi-
ence now.It'sasfastasfastgrubgets,butyoucan'tbeat theburgersormalts. It'sstanding-
room-only at lunchtime.
Kringle
Racine is still lovingly called Kringleville, for good reason. Almost all travelers leave town
withwhitewax-paperbagsstuffedwith
kringle,
aflaky,ovoidkindofcoffeecakefilledwith
a variety of fruits and almond paste or pecans. Family bakeries vie annually for top honors
of best
kringle,
and they still make it the Old World way, with some taking three days to
prepare the dough alone. Aficionados say: 1) pecan
kringles
are best; and 2) always go for
thethinnestsliceontheplate,sinceitalwayshasthemostfilling.AnotherDanishhighlight
is
aeblewskiver,
a lovely spherical waffle.
O&H Danish Bakery
(1841 Douglas Ave., 262/637-8895, 5:30am-6pm Mon.-Fri.,
5am-5pm Sat.) does the most advertising and probably ships the most
kringles,
and Pres-
ident Obama did make a stop here in 2010. But most readers have opined that
M
Larsen
Bakery
(3311 Washington Ave., 262/633-4298, 6am-5pm Mon.-Fri., 6am-4pm Sat.) or
M
Bendtsen's
(3200 Washington Ave., 262/633-0365) have the best.
