Bavette La Boucherie - Milwaukee

Interesting and delicious charcuterie. Halibut well prepared. Unusual menu overall, which I liked. Service: Dine in Meal type: Dinner Price per person: $30–50 Food: 5 Service: 4 Atmosphere: 5 Recommended dishes: Charcuterie Board

An excellent place for lunch AND the perfect introductory meal for your first visit to Milwaukee as they prioritize local farmers and purveyors. The shop at the front also has some great upscale food and drink finds for the home and pantry.

Our favorite restaurant in Milwaukee! Hits every time and there is something for everybody. Cocktails are also fantastic! Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5

Bavette may be the first ever butchery fit for the cover of a CB2 magazine. It’s a kind of cafe where class and carnivorousness collide, where you stuff a napkin under your collar so your tie doesn’t get grease stains, where you eat french fries out of a brown paper bag and drink scotch out of a crystal Glencairn glass. It’s the kind of place that serves a corned beef tongue reuben with cheese, spicy sauerkraut, and pickled mustard seed aioli with a side of beef fat fries for 17 dollars. When I ordered this mouthful, I fully anticipated a sandwich with an isolated spotlight on the meat. This place, at its core, is a butcher shop, and three of the four words that make up the name of this sandwich are designated solely to the description of the meat – corned, beef, tongue. I was pleased to discover how wrong I was. The beef tongue was masterful, of course (how could it not be? , but every element of the sandwich made a choice to stand out. I’ve praised sandwiches before for their ensemble-nature of blending into a unique collaborative flavor, but this one was special for its ability to complement without combining. The bread was crisp and distinctly rye, appearing in flavor waves as I chewed. The sauerkraut was almost citrusy and herbal like an alcohol and made for a perfect contrast to the rich oils of the beef fat. Even the cheese was unique enough to inform me if one bite had more or less of it than the last. It felt like every bite was a new take on the same reuben. I finished the sandwich without noticing and began to munch on the beef fat fries. They were unexceptional next to its companion on the plate, but they made for the perfect mindless snack while I zoned out in a euphoric trance recalling the flavors I said goodbye to only 60 seconds prior.

Service: Dine in Meal type: Dinner Price per person: $50–100 Food: 5 Service: 5 Atmosphere: 5 Recommended dishes: Seared Hokkaido Scallops