By Jeff Sherman OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writer Published Apr 20, 2007 at 4:30 PM

In an e-mail to customers, Mitchell Wakefield of Tess, 2499 N. Bartlett Ave., says that beginning this weekend its garden room area is open for business.  

Wakefield writes,  "I wanted to take a moment to let you all know that the heated, enclosed patio at Tess will be making it's seasonal debut this weekend.  Starting this evening (Friday, April 20), we will have seating available in our ‘garden room'.  For those of you who have not had the opportunity to dine in this area, this room is fully heated and carpeted with clear, vinyl walls that allow all of the amenities of dining outdoors without the brisk air that Milwaukee spring nights so often bring."
 
As for our outdoor patio, Tess "hopes to have this available by Mother's Day weekend, weather permitting."

Many area restaurants and bars have full outdoor seating already available.  Get out and dine and drink outdoors.

Jeff Sherman OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writer

A life-long and passionate community leader and Milwaukeean, Jeff Sherman is a co-founder of OnMilwaukee.

He grew up in Wauwatosa and graduated from Marquette University, as a Warrior. He holds an MBA from Cardinal Stritch University, and is the founding president of Young Professionals of Milwaukee (YPM)/Fuel Milwaukee.

Early in his career, Sherman was one of youngest members of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, and currently is involved in numerous civic and community groups - including board positions at The Wisconsin Center District, Wisconsin Club and Marcus Center for the Performing Arts.  He's honored to have been named to The Business Journal's "30 under 30" and Milwaukee Magazine's "35 under 35" lists.  

He owns a condo in Downtown and lives in greater Milwaukee with his wife Stephanie, his son, Jake, and daughter Pierce. He's a political, music, sports and news junkie and thinks, for what it's worth, that all new movies should be released in theaters, on demand, online and on DVD simultaneously.

He also thinks you should read OnMilwaukee each and every day.