Lord have mercy, butter is the dairy queen in Milwaukee! As in, ooooh, a pool of melted butter on a small plate with a deep well. Oozing cheeseburger atop and served while hot.
Have I mentioned that Milwaukee is a great town for eating? One crisp tenner will get you a top notch lunch. Hold the pretension.
Did a weekend slide-in, stand-up to Solly’s in Milwaukee last week.
The sides are nice at Solly’s. Hadn’t had a malt in eons. Used to eat malt powder off the spoon when I was a teenager and always in dire need of calories. Malt is weird, but it sure is good. Who ever thought of adding it to ice cream?!?
Solly’s is not splashy, thank the heavens above, unless you drop your butter burger into the yellow puddle on the plate, sploosh. Eight tablespoons of butter, that would be one whole STICK!, has tsunami potential. That number eight? I did not make it up. That is, PER burger.
Heavens to Betsy (H2B), scootch up to the double loop counter and slip through a lunch with me! Slip and slide and open wide. Yikes, stripes, what a spot. What a SPOT on my shirt. Big ole spot of liquid butter, or hamburger grease, hard to know which. Oh who cares?
Grilled onions on this baby? Oh slay me now.
Buns and butter everywhere and still tidy as a tack. I’m from Wisconsin and I’m PROUD.
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You are right about Milwaukee! Went on a food trip to visit my son and found some great little places! On the way there I was able to stop at Redamak’s, shrimp a licious (the real name), poochie’s, and jalapeno loca while waiting for a friend at the Milwaukee airport. It was a good warm up for Milwaukee! We hit a fish fry at Klinger’s East (blue gill swandwich), the hamburger topped with a bratburger at Shepherd’s in Tosa, a stop at the Michigan St Diner, breakfast at ALterra, lunch at Buckley’s (great place!), another lunch at the home of the butter burger, Solly’s, the Human Torch at Glorioso’s, suds at Sprecher’s, and a short trip to Taqueria El Paisa. A short weekend in Milwaukee is good for the soul. I love the fact that you can get a streeet brat any time after 9:00 PM!!
Next time you go I want to ride shotgun. Quite the marathon. Whoo-ee, I’m so impressed. And envious.
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