I’m beginning a new, spring and summer series of restaurant reviews. I’ll begin with something that, itself, is new: the restaurant at 841 Milwaukee Street, having opened at the beginning of the year. The 841 Brew House is a sports bar and restaurant, and differs notably and favorably from the predecessor establishment at that location. …
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Restaurant Review: Rick’s Eastside Pub & Grill
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
Whitewater’s a small Midwestern town. Part of the charm of that way of life is finding a simple, small-town grill. Nothing fancy, nothing pretentious – all very traditional, familiar, and comfortable. Rick’s Eastside Pub & Grill is that sort of place: pub food, beer on tap, in an open, rectangular dining room. What will you find? You’ll enter on the right, with the grill…
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Restaurant Review: China House
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View Larger Map China House, along West Main Street in Whitewater, sits in the city’s most visible retail district. It’s a restaurant with both take-out service and eat-in seating. It’s not an easy establishment to review, and part of the reason is that China House is really only one kind of establishment – a take-out…
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Review: Jessica’s Family Restaurant
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
View Larger Map Warm & Welcoming Sign A quick and happy declaration: I really love diners, their food, their atmosphere, their very American tradition. There’s a way of defining a diner that requires that it be a freestanding establishment, but to me, Jessica’s Family Restaurant at 140 West Main Street is a diner. It’s a…
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Review: Taco Fresco
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
Whitewater has a few Mexican restaurants, and now has another: Taco Fresco, at 175 W Main Street. For those who are wondering whether Whitewater can have too many Mexican restaurants, I’ll suggest that the answer’s no, as long as the restaurants are good ones. Taco Fresco is a new one, and happily a good one.…
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Recap: Restaurant Reviews, February to June 2013
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New reviews begin, with the new season, next week. Here’s a recap with links to previous reviews. Restaurant Review: Los Agaves Taqueria RATING: Recommended — 3 of 4. Restaurant Review: The Black Sheep RATING: Recommended — 3.75 of 4. Restaurant Review: Randy’s Restaurant and Fun Hunter’s Brewery RATING: Fair 2 of 4.…
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Restaurant Review: Los Agaves Taqueria
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On the west side of Whitewater, near Daniels Sentry, one finds the Los Agaves taqueria truck. It was gone for a bit, not long ago, but it’s back regularly now. It’s a simple white truck with Mexican fare: tacos, tortas, burritos, tostados, sincronizadas, chiminchangas, gorditas, and quesadillas among one’s choices. Most of these selections have…
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Restaurant Review: The Black Sheep
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
I wrote two weeks ago that I’d review two restaurants in succession, and Chef Tyler Sailsbery’s Black Sheep, at 210 W. Whitewater Street along Cravath Lake, is the promised second of those two reviews. And yet, it’s odd to write about Whitewater’s Black Sheep as the second of a series – it’s a fine establishment…
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Restaurant Review: Randy’s Restaurant and Fun Hunter’s Brewery
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
View Larger Map Randy’s Restaurant and Fun Hunter’s Brewery – Randy’s to anyone who has been in Whitewater longer than twenty-four hours – is a big, traditional American-cuisine restaurant on Whitewater’s eastside. First, what one sees: Everything about Randy’s is big – the dining room (with anterooms), the tables and chairs, the building, even the…
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Restaurants: Quick Observations and Upcoming Reviews
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I’ve upcoming reviews next Wednesday and the week thereafter of the Black Sheep and Randy’s Restaurant & Fun Hunter’s Brewery. I’ve completed both, but still each leaves me with points to consider, of establishments that are different in just about every way. For today though, two observations about what matters for a restaurant or restaurant…
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Restaurant Review: Cozumel
by JOHN ADAMS • • 4 Comments
View Larger Map Whitewater has more than one Mexican restaurant, and when there are at least two, there’s bound to be a question of which is authentic, genuine, somehow true to Mexican cuisine, etc. It’s not the only question, though: a necessary, preliminary question is whether the restaurant serves enjoyable fare. Ask that initial question,…
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Restaurant Review: The SweetSpot
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
View Larger Map Located along Whitewater Street, near the Cravath lakefront, is Whitewater’s principal coffee shop: The SweetSpot at 226 West Whitewater. There are other places in town for coffee, and until recently there were even more, but The SweetSpot now occupies a preeminent place. So what shall one simply say about this much-touted coffee…
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Restaurant Review: Karina’s Mexican Restaurant
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
View Larger Map Karina’s Mexican Restaurant sits on the corner of Main Street in downtown Whitewater. As one sees from the street view above, patrons enter on Main, with seating to both the left and right of the entrance. It’s a large space, and for the occasions when I visited (lunch, dinner), larger than the…
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Restaurant Review: Tokyo
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
View Larger Map Tokyo is a family-run, Japanese-cuisine restaurant, of modest size, and a relaxed atmosphere. It’s situated on a prominent corner in downtown Whitewater, along Main Street. That first sentence establishes the perspective from which one should consider Tokyo: it’s a small, family-run Japanese restaurant. It’s a pleasant surprise, and happily recommended. Across America,…