We had dinner last night at Roots, a relatively new restaurant on Brewer’s Hill here in Milwaukee. Here’s a clip from their website:
Roots restaurant will reflect, from scratch, American regional cookery with contemporary world-fusion cuisine celebrating the seasons. Emphasis will be on organics and seafood.
I had an appetizer of Morale Mushroom and Duck Confit ravioli - topped with cheese and baked, served on a bed of vinagrette drizzled greens. Very tasty. My dinner was a soy grilled Tilapia, also quite good. I don’t quite remember the exact wine we had, but it was an organic Syrah from Sonoma, which had an aftertaste very much like a barely-ripe plum. Judy had a Shrimp and Scallop pasta dish, and Rajan and Tora both had the Salmon, although I don’t remember how it was prepared.
The restaurant itself is quite nice. The dining room is split in half by a bar — one half overlooks a great view of the city skyline, and the other half has view of the kitchen. I guess you could call the decor “modern” - mostly cherry-colored wood, very sleek lines, tall ceilings.
The lower level of the restaurant is a bar called the Root Cellar. It looks like there will be a patio just off the bar with the same great view of the city. Inside the bar, the walls are all slick concrete, and the area just above the bar has a drop ceiling made of a semi-translucent paper or plastic, with very soft lighting. I was surprised at how warm it was down there - it’s not a basement (or cellar), it’s just the lower leverl. Looks like it will be a nice cocktail hour place.
I made a comment at dinner which I think bears repeating here. As I was getting ready to go out last night, I thought to myself how lucky I am to be living in the “golden age” of dining in this city. I can’t count the number of great restaurants that have opened in the last few years. It’s a good thing I like to eat…
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