For the seventh straight year, October is Dining Month on OnMilwaukee.com, presented by the restaurants of Potawatomi. All month, we're stuffed with restaurant reviews, delectable features, chef profiles and unique articles on everything food, as well as the winners of our "Best of Dining 2013."
I certainly don’t mind ordering just a salad for lunch, but if it’s anything less than spectacular, I find myself regretting the decision until dinner.
Fortunately, there’s a tried and true go-to salad for me at The Green Kitchen in the Milwaukee Public Market. The $7.95 "Pearadise" salad is just about perfect – albeit a little expensive.
Big but not huge, it’s a spring mix with fresh pear, walnuts, Craisins, blue cheese, chicken or garbanzo beans. I don’t care for blue cheese, so I replace it with parmesan. They toss it up for you, and you can eat upstairs.
I’m a big fan of the Public Market, and The Green Kitchen gives me a great and healthy reason to walk there. The Pearadise is great. This Dining Month, give it a shot!
Andy is the president, publisher and founder of OnMilwaukee. He returned to Milwaukee in 1996 after living on the East Coast for nine years, where he wrote for The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau and worked in the White House Office of Communications. He was also Associate Editor of The GW Hatchet, his college newspaper at The George Washington University.
Before launching OnMilwaukee.com in 1998 at age 23, he worked in public relations for two Milwaukee firms, most of the time daydreaming about starting his own publication.
Hobbies include running when he finds the time, fixing the rust on his '75 MGB, mowing the lawn at his cottage in the Northwoods, and making an annual pilgrimage to Phoenix for Brewers Spring Training.
