Eating Milwaukee: Iron Cupcake: Booze 10.17.10

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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.

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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...

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Iron Cupcake: Booze 10.17.10

Abandoning my Tee-totalling ways, I made the pilgrimage to the latest Milwaukee Iron Cupcake competition to cheer on our friend and yours, Mel from Bites of Life with her Absinthe cupcakes. While we were there, we had the pleasure of rubbing shoulders with Paul from Burp! (Lo, apparently, was under the weather. Feel better!), Neil, and a host of other Milwaukee food bloggers, as well as the royal Ruthie (of Dear Ruthie fame) as Mistress of Ceremonies.

Well, I have absolutely no tolerance left, 'cause about six cupcakes in and I was already buzzed. Maybe it was the Absinthe...

There was a ton of gorgeous little cakes out there, and lots of awesome folks enjoying the Sunday afternoon... too bad it's the last Iron Cupcake of the year!

A few highlights below, but check out the gallery for the whole story!