Travel Reference
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Coffee and Tea
Those with a java fixation should head for the Brady Street area (
www.bradystreet.org
),
where you'll find an inordinate number of coffee shops of every possible variety.
Watts Tea Shop
(761N.JeffersonSt.,414/291-5120,9am-4pmdaily,tea2:30pm-4pm)
heads the list for afternoon tea and homemade everything, from scones to chicken salad.
The shop is ensconced in the ritzy Watts store, purveyor of prohibitively fragile china, sil-
ver, and crystal.
Steak Houses
StayingintheHiltonMilwaukeeCityCenter?Gonofartherthanyourestablishment's
Mil-
waukee Chop House
(633N.5thSt.,414/226-2467,5pm-10pmMon.-Sat.,$18-68);inad-
dition to luscious steaks, the bone-in rib eye is likely the best in Milwaukee.
Visit
Butch's Old Casino Steak House
(414/271-8111,
www.butchssteakhouse.com
,
5pm-close Mon.-Sat., $20-40) for its throwback-to-bygone-days atmosphere.
Romantic
A lovely lake view comes at
Coast
(931 E. Wisconsin Ave., 414/727-5555, dinner Tues.-
Fri., seasonal Sun. brunch, $8-20), offering absolutely superb vistas of the Milwaukee Art
Museum'snewCalatravaadditionandLakeMichigan.Pan-Americaninscope,thecreative
foodsherearesuperblymadebut,aswiththecomfortablydesignedinteriors,unpretentious.
Seafood
Milwaukee's downtown place for creative and solid seafood has for years been
Bosley on
Brady
(815 E. Brady St., 414/727-7975, 4pm-10pm Tues.-Sat., 4pm-8pm Sun., $17-33),
which describes itself as seafood with a Key West attitude.
OflateBosleyonBradyhashadplentyofcompetitionfromafabulousnewcomer,
Har-
bor House
(550 N. Harbor Dr., 414/395-4900, lunch and dinner daily, $17-50), just north
of Discovery World. The fare changes with the season, but whether it's dreamy lobster pot-
pie or pan-seared Great Lakes walleye, it's outstanding, as are the sublime water and city
views.
Fine Dining
Nouvelle cuisine is done magnificently at
M
Sanford
(1547 N. Jackson St., 414/276-9608,
5:30pm-9pm Mon.-Thurs., 5pm-10pm Fri.-Sat., $30-70), one of the state's most original
and respected innovators of cuisine and definitely a place to cook up an excuse for a
splurge.It'sfetedbynationalfoodiemediaandhasgarneredawallfullofawards.
Gourmet