Dining - Jan. 14, 2008
Meritage serves quality cuisine, fresh atmosphere
Got a tight budget? Former Barossa chef Jan Kelly has created a menu that lets you sample affordable, high-quality cuisine in a fresh, fun atmosphere.
Tags: meritage, vliet street, jan kelly, barossa

Dining - Jan. 3, 2008
Highlands Cafe is small but warm
The other day I went out to find a warm place for a cappuccino and some time to read and I stumbled upon Highlands Cafe on 60th and Vliet Streets, in a small space formerly home to Cafe Caliente.
Tags: highlands cafe, vliet street, cafe caliente

Dining - Nov. 9, 2007
Tazza transforms "the big cup" into pizzeria
To dine at Tazza Pizzeria, 5010 W. Vliet St., is to eat "Pizza at The Cup." Owner Matt Bohlmann introduces his new restaurant to Washington Heights.
Tags: pizzeria tazza, pizza, pizza at the cup, milwaukee coffee compnay, another blessings cafe, vliet street, washington heights, meritage, perpendicular wine bar, matt bohlmann

Dining - Oct. 2, 2007
Vliet Street spot ditches coffee for pizza
I noticed that Another Blessings Café is now a quaint Italian restaurant called Pizzeria Tazza.
Tags: another blessings cafe, blessings cafe, pizzeria tazza, vliet street, times cinema

Marketplace - April 18, 2007
Urban Sense freshens up Vliet Street
Though not yet fully realized, the Washington Heights neighborhood is experiencing high doses of revitalization and culture, and adding to the quality of west side living is a hip little plant, flower and gift shop called Urban Sense.
Tags: Urban Sense, Vliet Street, Chris Dobs, Dan Block, greenhouse, plant store, roses, flowers

Dining - March 30, 2006
Another Blessings Cafe adds to variety on Vliet
Eugene Bonner has never owned a café before. In fact, he doesn't even especially like coffee. But when you walk through the door of Another Blessings Café and he greets you -- all smiles and donning a customer-made coffee cup hat -- you get the feeling that he's in the right business.
Tags: Another Blessings Cafe, Vliet Street, The Flying Hicca, Indigo, Eugene Bonner, coffee, cafe

Dining - March 14, 2005
Indigo brightens up West Side with colorful martini bar, restaurant
When the popular Washington Heights restaurant The Highlander closed last June, Greg Hashek and a few others joined together to create a new martini bar and restaurant. And the new, and decidedly blue, Indigo was born.
Tags: Indigo, The Highlander, Greg Hashek, Vliet Street, martini bar, patio seating

Travel & Visitors Guide - Dec. 13, 2004
Street name origins uncover young Milwaukee
Many Brew City streets have unique name origins. While you can get the full picture on those names in Carl Baehr's great book, in the meantime here's the answer to such age-old questions as, "Mommy, what's a Vliet?"
Tags: Street name origins, Lapham Boulevard, Edison Street, Juneau Avenue, Vieau Place, Kilbourn Avenue, Whitnall Avenue, Fratney Street, Finger Place, Good Hope Road, Calumet Road, College Avenue, Mill Road, Wausaukee Road, Vliet Street, Carl Baehr, Milwaukee