Dining - Oct. 17, 2009
Milwaukee's best pizza, 2009: Zaffiro's
Milwaukee is home to a bevy of great pizzerias, but OnMilwaukee.com readers picked Zaffiro's as the top pie maker. The mom-and-pop pizza place has been in the same East Side location since 1951. Today, the restaurant is owned by Mike Zaffiro, the son of the original owner.
Tags: pizza, zaffiro's, pizza man, balistrieri's, brick 3 pizza, transfer cafe, olive pit, rustico, classic slice, pizzeria piccola, louise's trattoria, oakland trattoria, meglio pizzeria

Dining - Sept. 1, 2009
Palermo's Pizza gets "Unwrapped" Sept. 14
Milwaukee's Palermo's Pizza makes its national television debut on the Food Network's "Unwrapped" show. The episode, titled "The Big Chill," airs at 8 p.m. on Sept. 14 and gives audiences a peek inside Palermo Villa, the company's facility in the Menomonee Valley.
Tags: Unwrapped, Food Network, Palermos, TV, tours, Menomonee Valley, Gaspare "Jack" Falluca, Rustico, Primo thin, Palermo's, pizza, Chris Dresselhuys

Arts & Entertainment - March 19, 2009
Wenhardt paints serenity in the Third Ward
Watercolor's complexity and challenge sustains Wenhardt's interest in the medium. Spending years learning the characteristics of washes and how to anticipate color bleeding, Wenhardt acknowledges there is no chance to re-do or go over watercolor work. Instead, he's confident from start to finish with the possibility of what he refers to as "happy accidents."
Tags: steve wenhardt, rustico, gallery night, door county, watercolor, painting

Dining - Jan. 27, 2009
One space, two radically different dining experiences
The last time I set foot inside the building that now houses Rustico was during the week or so that it was a now-departed Mexican restaurant called Borrego's. Last night, I returned for a social/work dinner, and the experience couldn't have been more different.
Tags: rustico, riverwalk, borrego's, onyx

Dining - Aug. 28, 2008
A pizza takeover?
Within the last year and a half I have witnessed four new pizza places open up within a five-minute bike ride (less than a mile) of my Walker's Point home.
Tags: pizza, classic slice, marchese's olive pit, transfer, times square bistro & pizzeria, rustico

Dining - July 6, 2009
Happy Birthday Rustico Pizzeria!
There are advantages to getting older; you become wiser, more comfortable in your own skin, more confident in your abilities and develop loyal friends. Zartletti’s Rustico Pizzeria has done just that. Since my first visit last summer when it had just opened, it seems as though Rustico has r...
Tags: Rustico, pizza, riverwalk