Eating Milwaukee: The inaugural eats...

About Our Methods

At Eating Milwaukee, we try our best to adhere to the ad-hoc Food Blog Code of Ethics, which is itself a version of the very official and very serious (no laughing!) Association of Food Journalists Food Critics' Guidlines. We're very proud of our strong reputation as a fair and honest restaurant-based food blog.

We review restaurants based on a few basic ground rules:

1) No chains.

We will not review chains. We eat at chains, we even like some chains, but we won't review them. Multiple locations of the same small business don't count.

2) Smaller is better.

We like dives. We like clean dives even more.

3) Culture rules.

There is no cuisine that is off-limits with us. We're foodies, we like it all. With a few small exceptions, we'll try almost anything twice.

4) Don't take our word for it.

Get out there and support local Milwaukee businesses!

5) We may inform the folks at the restaurant about the blog -- but, if we can, after we eat. We don't like the idea of anyone knowing about the review before we get our food... in case of, you know... tampering. Although it's pretty hard to keep a low profile when you have a huge camera on the table, and your flash keeps going off taking pictures of the chicken soup...

I have come to a conclusion: I eat too much.

For those of you who have known me for some time, or have seen full-profile pictures of me, this should come as no surprise.

But if I'm going to labor tirelessly over fork and spoon, shouldn't I at least contribute something to the world... isn't there a greater good to be served, particularly when dinner is?

I'm going to food-blog.

I know, it's passé. I'm sure we'll all get over it. Besides... there hasn't been half enough written out there about Milwaukee eating... and I'm talking about the real Milwaukee eating. This is not the Bartolotta Restaurant Group blog, nor is it the Harbor 550 blog. This is the hole-in-the-wall, blue (or azul, or bleu, or however you say it), plate special joints that we all walk past every day, and always note that we should try.

We'll, I've been trying them. And I'm open to suggestions.

In the words of my blue-collar-foodie-dad, "Soup's Up!"