Your 2026 Best of the Burbs Readers’ Choice Winners
Milwaukee has 36 suburbs. Here are the places our readers love within them.
Your 2025 Best of the Burbs Readers’ Choice Winners
The results are in: Milwaukee’s suburbs rock – and these restaurants, shops and other attractions are why. The great stuff you voted for in our annual Readers’ Choice survey are some of our editors’ favorite things, too, so we just had to chime in as well.
Your 2024 Best of the Burbs Readers’ Choice Winners
We asked and you answered. From the northern reaches of Cedarburg, down to the southern shores of Oak Creek and west to Waukesha, these are the top restaurants, shops, parks and more, as chosen by our readers. You’ll find some old favorites and some new upstarts in all categories – check them out here!
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Our annual Best of the Burbs is here!
A Bunch of Reasons to Love Milwaukee’s Suburbs
Checking the pulse of our suburban residents reveals a love for not just community but communities, as well as abundant nature and places for the pooches. A little extra elbow room doesn’t hurt, either.
Your 2023 Best of the Burbs Readers’ Choice Winners and Runners-Up
Any Savvy local resident knows Milwaukee’s suburbs are loaded with great food, drink, businesses and experiences. For the first time, we asked our readers to pick their Best of the Burbs, and the results – the top three finishers in each category – are a veritable bucket list of memories just waiting to be made!
34 Reasons to Visit Milwaukee’s Northern Suburbs
There’s a lot to love in the communities of Bayside, Brown Deer, Butler, Cedarburg, Fox Point, Germantown, Glendale, Grafton, Mequon, Menomonee Falls, River Hills, Shorewood, Thiensville, Whitefish Bay.
40 Reasons to Visit Milwaukee’s Western Suburbs
There’s a lot to love in the communities of Pewaukee, Oconomowoc, Genesee Depot, Wauwatosa, Delafield, Hartland, Brookfield, Waukesha, West Allis, Elm Grove, Wales, Okauchee, Nashotah and West Milwaukee.
38 Reasons to Visit Milwaukee’s Southern Suburbs
There’s a lot to love in the communities of Cudahy, Franklin, Greendale, Greenfield, Hales Corners, Muskego, St. Francis, South Milwaukee, New Berlin and Oak Creek.
3 Local Notables on Why They Live in the Burbs
Paul Bartolotta, Kendra Whitlock Ingram and Steve Scaffidi chat about the opportunity, community and charm of the burb life.