By Matt Mueller Culture Editor Published May 28, 2017 at 3:01 PM

It's time to start saving some room in your stomach for Downtown Dining Week, returning to several Milwaukee eateries this summer from June 1 to 8.

The seven-day festival of food, created by Milwaukee Downtown, BID #21, allows diners to chow down on pre-selected three-course options – $12.50 for lunch; $25 or $35 for dinner – from a wide variety of Downtown restaurants. 

And here are this year's palate-pleasing participants:

  • Ale Asylum Riverhouse
  • Benihana
  • The Brass Alley
  • The Brown Bottle
  • Brunch
  • The Capital Grille
  • Carson's 
  • Club Charlies
  • Coquette Cafe
  • Distil
  • Hinterland Erie Street Gastropub
  • Indulge
  • Kanpai
  • Kil@wat
  • The Knick
  • The Loaded Slate
  • Louise's
  • Mader's
  • Mason Street Grill
  • Matador
  • Mi-key's
  • Millioke
  • Milwaukee ChopHouse
  • Mo's ... A Place for Steaks
  • Onesto
  • Pastiche at the Metro
  • Pier 106
  • The Pub Club
  • Rare Steakhouse
  • Rock Bottom Brewery
  • Rodizio Grill
  • The Rumpus Room
  • SafeHouse
  • Smoke Shack
  • Swig
  • Third Coast Provisions
  • Trinity Three Irish Pubs
  • Upper 90 Sports Pub
  • Vagabond
  • Ward's House of Prime
  • Water Buffalo
  • Who's On Third
  • Zarletti

In addition to feasting on fine food, four lucky diners will be selected to feast on $500 in dining gift certificates from Milwaukee Downtown, BID #21. Participants can enter the drawing by filling out a survey after their Downtown Dining Week experience. After the festival's all wrapped up, a random drawing will select the four winners. 

To preview the Downtown Dining Week menus being prepped by all of the participating restaurants, visit Milwaukee Downtown, BID #21's website. And bon appétit!

Matt Mueller Culture Editor

As much as it is a gigantic cliché to say that one has always had a passion for film, Matt Mueller has always had a passion for film. Whether it was bringing in the latest movie reviews for his first grade show-and-tell or writing film reviews for the St. Norbert College Times as a high school student, Matt is way too obsessed with movies for his own good.

When he's not writing about the latest blockbuster or talking much too glowingly about "Piranha 3D," Matt can probably be found watching literally any sport (minus cricket) or working at - get this - a local movie theater. Or watching a movie. Yeah, he's probably watching a movie.