Each week on This Bites, dining critic Ann Christenson from Milwaukee Magazine and Radio Milwaukee’s resident foodie Tarik Moody dig into the city’s culinary and restaurant culture to help you find new spots, old favorites and the best ingestibles around Milwaukee.
Covering all the food news happening around Milwaukee sometimes means talking about food news happening … not in Milwaukee. It seems contradictory but will make more sense as we get into our lead item from this episode: farm dinners.
In case you didn’t notice, not a lot of farms in Milwaukee. So if you’re looking to get involved with this trend of enjoying a meal among the barns and cows and horsies and whatnot, getting out of an urban setting is required. In that way, you’ll be following the example of celebrated Milwaukee chef Kyle Knall, who in just a couple weeks will take his significant skill set to Ridgeway, Wisc.
This village of a little more than 600 people in Iowa County was established in 1881 and apparently has a “Famous Ghost,” but on July 24 it’ll have a famous chef (James Beard nominated and all that) cooking a four-course meal at Meadowlark Farm & Mill. The feast is part of a traveling experience called Outstanding in the Field that in just the last few weeks alone has gone from California to the Pacific Northwest to the Rockies. The Midwest is next, with the meal in Ridgeway being its first stop in the region.
No word on what diners will actually be enjoying that evening, but we do know the experience will set you back $385. Gotta keep those horsies well fed, I guess. Based on Outstanding in the Field’s tour schedule, these things almost always sell out. So if you don’t make it to the table for this one, there’s a more geographically and financially friendly option happening this Saturday in Fond du Lac, as well as a big-tent version at Mequon Nature Preserve on Aug. 18.
We’ve got other happenings to cover in this episode, including:
- Another event way outside the city limits, this one on the shores of Lake Superior as James Beard-nominated Ojibwe chef Bryce Stevenson and Korean chef Jenny Lee fuse their culinary cultures.
- Much, much closer to home, a new Burmese restaurant in Bay View’s KinetiK Apartments will target a September opening.
- The City of Milwaukee’s Fresh Food Access Fund awarded $100,000 in grants to seven local groups this week.
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