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.
One of the reasons Ann and I started this podcast was to help people around Milwaukee expand their palettes and experience all the flavors our area has to offer. That’s as much about culture as it is about cuisine, especially when it comes to events like the one wrapping up this weekend.
Now in its fourth edition, Halal Restaurant Week runs through this Sunday, helping bring awareness to the options around Milwaukee that meet Islamic dietary guidelines while also inviting non-Muslim customers to try halal dining and encouraging restaurants to have halal choices on their menus year-round.
What makes this a unique cultural food event is how it cuts across cuisine. Restaurants like Mr. B’s Steakhouse, Smoke Shack and Allende Cocina Mexicana are all participating this year, along with eight others that represent a nice cross-section of Milwaukee dining. You can get more info over at Eat Halal Milwaukee while you listen to the other tidbits that snuck into this episode:
- Dumpling Fest will once again crown the best dough-wrapped goodness when it returns June 28.
- Riverwest urban farm Crops On Top will welcome guests all summer long to their beer-pairing dinners, garden parties and Detroit-style pizza nights.
- Lupi & Iris will host their fourth annual Domaine de la Romanée-Conti Dinner that pairs high-end wine with a nine-course tasting menu.
- Tree-Ripe Fruit will bring farm-fresh peaches and blueberries to their hundreds of fruit stops, including a couple dozen here in southeastern Wisconsin.
This Bites has been your one-stop-pod for Milwaukee food news for a very long time, and we’ll keep bringing it to you as long as you keep listening. Make sure you subscribe on your platform of choice, and we’d appreciate it if you’d leave us a review while you’re there. Thanks.
