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Best bar on / near Water Street, 2007: Bar Louie
Water Street welcomes Bar Louie to the block.  
By Julie Lawrence RSS Feed
OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writer
Photography by Erin Calfa, Front Room Photography
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Published Nov. 21, 2007 at 5:20 a.m.
Tags: bar louie, bayshore town center, water street

The votes are in and the winners have been selected for OnMilwaukee's Best: Eat & Drink, 2007. The results of this readers' poll, including an editors' pick, are available in this series of articles that run all month long in the Bars and Clubs section of OnMilwaukee.com.

Bar Louie Milwaukee, 1114 N. Water St., is the 20th location, nationwide, of the popular Chicago-based chain, and offers a variety of fairly-priced signature sandwiches, appetizers, deluxe burgers and entrees as well as everything that gives it its bar title -- handcrafted specialty cocktails, martinis and mojitos, and more than 20 domestics, imports and microbrews.

Sure, it's a chain, but it certainly does fit in well with Water Street's "drinking destination" reputation. Bar Louie also recently set up shop at the Bayshore Town Center, although OnMilwaukee.com food writer Amy Carlson says the two locations are vastly different:

"The Water Street Bar Louie location is distinctly a bar that serves food, while the Glendale location is distinctly a restaurant that also has a bar," she says.

"In other words, Bar Louie did its homework. Water Street does a great professional Downtown lunch crowd but at night, as we well know, it becomes more of a nightlife/bar crowd. Many of the eating options on that strip of Water Street rightfully cater to a drinking clientele, while Glendale caters to families and singles who are stopping for dinner after a long day of shopping."


OnMilwaukee.com's editor's choice: The Lodge

Runners-up:
2. The Harp
3. Safe House
4. McGillycuddy's
5. Rock Bottom Brewery
6. Rosie's Waterworks
7. Water St. Brewery
8. The Lodge
9. Fitzgibbons
10. Tequila Rita's
11. The Corner
12. Brothers
13. Scooter's Pub
14. Duke's on Water



More Information ...
Bar Louie
1114 N. Water St.
Milwaukee, WI 53202
(414) 847-1492

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Teagen Bar Louie is one of the worst bars in Milwaukee. Was there twice. When I flirted ...
jakeyd The service is always horrible. The staff is unattentive, uninformed and unmotivated. ...
applefreak WOW!..Bar Louie has some of the worst food and worst service i have ever had ...
OlderWiser Of all the options available when attending a performance at the Marcus Center, ...
MILWIRISH IF YOU ENJOY BAR LOUIE I KNOW YOU THINK OLIVE GARDEN IS A GREAT ITALIAN EATERY, ...


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