Wisconsin

Some restaurants feed you once, and some keep you thinking about them long after the trip home. On…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 9

Some cities have one dish that people talk about on the drive home, and in Madison it comes…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 9

Some dinners call for a menu, and some call for a plate and a plan. On the east…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 8

Some Wisconsin dinners start long before anyone picks up a fork, usually with a crowd of hopeful diners…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 8

Some Milwaukee wing spots chase trends with dozens of sauces, but one pub has stuck with a single…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 8

Every city has that one restaurant locals bring up the moment a cousin from another state lands at…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 7

Deer season in Wisconsin is about more than the hunt. It is also about the coolers, the camp…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 7

There is something about a warm bag of kettle corn that turns a plain drive into a real…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 7

The hot beef sandwich is a Wisconsin classic that never really goes out of style. It is simple…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 6

Central Wisconsin holds a working brewery that has kept its doors open longer than almost any other in…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 6

About twenty minutes north of Milwaukee sits a small town where old stone mills still stand along a…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 5

Wisconsin still has drive-ins where a carhop brings your burger to the car window and the root beer…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 5

Some corners of downtown Appleton carry more character in a single room than entire blocks do elsewhere. Tucked…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 4

Tucked into a small Wisconsin town where cheese is practically a way of life, one address has quietly…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 4

There is a small Wisconsin town where century-old passenger cars still roll down a quiet stretch of track,…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 3

Some road trips end with a photo. This one ends with a cardboard boat of hot, squeaky cheese…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 3

Somewhere in southern Wisconsin, a small downtown lined with carved wooden trolls hides a cafe where hand-made chocolate…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 3

Every August, Wisconsin lines up by the thousands for a cream puff at the State Fair, and honestly,…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 2

In Wisconsin, a bratwurst is more than a cookout snack, because it shows up at game days, Saturday…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 2

A Wisconsin apple tastes better when you pulled it off the branch yourself, and I will stand by…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 2

Door County grows a lot of cherries, but only a few places turn a highway stop into a…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 1

Some Milwaukee traditions come with a thick rulebook, and this one fits on a napkin. Park the car,…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 1

Friday mornings in Wisconsin have a funny way of ending with a flat white bakery box on the…

By Ethan Mueller · Oct 1

Some Milwaukee-area restaurants chase trends, and one West Allis dining room has spent more than a hundred years…

By Ethan Mueller · Sep 30

Wisconsin sits a long way from any ocean, yet one dining room near Milwaukee keeps sending crab legs…

By Ethan Mueller · Sep 30

Some of the best fall outings in Wisconsin do not need a map full of stops, a packed…

By Ethan Mueller · Sep 30

Most people do not expect a Wisconsin day trip to end with sand in their shoes and dunes…

By Ethan Mueller · Sep 29

Some Wisconsin road trips start with a map, and others start with a craving that has been passed…

By Ethan Mueller · Sep 29

October in Wisconsin comes with a very specific to-do list, and it usually involves muddy boots, a wagon…

By Ethan Mueller · Sep 28

Some shops sell candy. Others build a whole afternoon around it. On a quiet corner in Appleton, Wisconsin,…

By Ethan Mueller · Sep 28

Some restaurants hope dessert will rescue the meal, but in one Rice Lake dining room, dessert is the…

By Ethan Mueller · Sep 27

Buying cheese in Wisconsin is easy, but watching it get made right in front of you is a…

By Ethan Mueller · Sep 27

Some trails ask for nothing more than sneakers, but this one near Merrimac expects wet shoes and a…

By Ethan Mueller · Sep 26

Most restaurants put their best features on the menu. One spot in Sister Bay, Wisconsin, puts them on…

By Ethan Mueller · Sep 26

Once the first chilly morning shows up in Wisconsin, a lot of us start thinking about warm apple…

By Ethan Mueller · Sep 26

In Wisconsin, Friday night has a standing plan, and it usually involves a basket of golden cod, a…

By Ethan Mueller · Sep 25

Some dinners come with a menu. Others come with a wood fire, a giant kettle, and a countdown…

By Ethan Mueller · Sep 25

Wisconsin Dells is famous for water parks and neon-lit arcades, but the food scene that keeps locals happy…

By Ethan Mueller · Sep 25

Nothing beats a root beer float made the old way, with root beer that the drive-in mixes up…

By Ethan Mueller · Sep 24