Clean Initiative
Cleanliness is next to.… fit-liness? This might ring familiar from the Dish column on November 29, 2011: Sarah Dusseau, the very fit owner of Menomonee Falls-based Fit Food Trainer, and her latest fit project, Cafe One24 Wine Bar and Grill. Back in November, Dusseau was, er, firming up the menu – a menu devoted to “clean eating” (foods free of processed ingredients, trans fats, preservatives, etc.). Dusseau opened the doors to this Brookfield restaurant last week. She has enlisted local businesses to supply some of the ingredients – Wisconsin Grass Fed Beef Co-op, Empire Fish, Growing Power and Cybros Sprouted Bakehouse. If you have food allergies or follow a gluten-free or plant-based diet, she’s got your back. What delights await you at Cafe One24? For starters: steamed Prince Edward Island mussels, Wisconsin cheese plate, seared flank steak salad, grilled vegetable quinoa salad ($7-$16). Beyond that: blackened tilapia po’ boy; black and blue burger; seared scallops with mango and grilled corn salsa; chicken roulade over sweet potato mash; and herb-crusted flank steak ($8-$23). Hours: Tues-Thurs 4:30-10 p.m.; Fri-Sat 4:30-11 p.m. (3705 N. 124th St., Suite 400, Brookfield, 262-781-1662)
Rolling in Foam
Take this beer and drink it. Looking ahead for the next few weeks, the crystal ball is showing a nice trio of beer dinners in MKE. Make that reservation now.
• Lakefront Hunters Beer Dinner. Five courses, including rainbow trout en papillote, venison cassoulet, and smoked boar sausage. Beers provided by Lakefront Brewery. Jan. 18, 7 p.m. $50 per person (or $90 per couple). INdustri Cafe (524 S. Second St., 414-224-7777)
• Best Of Milwaukee Beer Dinner featuring five local chefs – including Sanford’s Justin Aprahamian, Hinterland’s Dan Van Rite and Rumpus Room’s Andrew Ruiz. Each chef’s course will be paired with a craft beer from a Midwest brewing company. Example: Roots Restaurant’s John Raymond and Dan Jacobs, and Founders Brewing in Grand Rapids, Mich. Feb. 7, 6:30 p.m. $95 per person. Location: Hinterland Erie Street Gastropub (222 E. Erie St., Suite 100). Call Hinterland: 414-727-9300. Note: This is part of a larger beer dinner series you’ll hear more about later.
• Potosi Beer Dinner, five courses and six Potosi beers. Courses include: Panama Cobia with butter-crushed spaghetti squash and watercress pesto; and roasted pork medallions with house-made pork and fig sausage and risotto-style pearled barley. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to a wounded soldier from Potosi, Wis. Jan. 12, 7 p.m. $65 per person. Smyth (Iron Horse Hotel, 500 W. Florida St., 414-831-4615)
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