Featured bartender: Zaysha Sandwick of Scaffidi's Hideout
Published June 10, 2013
OnMilwaukee.com recently stopped into Scaffidi's and chatted with Zaysha Sandwick about math, Sheboygan, ceiling mirrors and her first bar fight.
Published June 10, 2013
OnMilwaukee.com recently stopped into Scaffidi's and chatted with Zaysha Sandwick about math, Sheboygan, ceiling mirrors and her first bar fight.
Published Jan. 22, 2013
With more than 450 available cocktails and no drink menu, Bryant's Cocktail Lounge isn't a typical bartending job. "This is not a position you'll find advertised on Craigslist," says server Leah Delany. "It requires so much of the razzle and the dazzle."
Published June 22, 2012
Milwaukee Brewers closer John Axford has done it all, having tended bar, cleared tables, sold data packages, started post-graduate work, starred in a music video and become a mustachioed folk hero. OnMilwaukee.com caught up with him as he still searches for his big screen big break, speaks about the city, education and the hardest drinks he ever had to make.
Published Feb. 24, 2012
Bar month has me gooey and nostalgic over a really great time in my life. All too long ago ... in actuality (gulp) an entire decade heretofore ... I was in the throes of the service industry, living life as a Milwaukee bartender. The years spent slinging booze behind the bar are some of the fondest, most carefree and lucrative of my life.
Published May 7, 2011
Don't let the scowl fool you. First of all, it's not a scowl. Second, Marty Jackson is a pretty nice guy once you get to know him. And many of us in Milwaukee have. Jackson has spent the last 32 years (his anniversary was late last week) behind a bar, first at the famed Avalanche and later at O'Donoghues on the Marquette campus. He's spent the last 14 years at Flannery's, where he's happily still serving up drinks and dominating at bar dice.
I've been bartending since I was 18, for 9 years now. Since I graduated from college, I only bartend once a week in addition to my "day" job. I love the extra money and it is a great way to socialize and meet cool people. Lately though it seems like things have slowed down. It is unders...