This Is Precisely What a Brunch Buffet Should Look Like

This Is Precisely What a Brunch Buffet Should Look Like
And of Course We’ve Got Another Holiday Party for You
By Sarah Freeman

Wednesday

Thursday

DOUBLE SHOT

            A Tale of Two New Coffee Shops

The Milwaukee coffee invasion continues with a new Logan Square outpost of Colectivo. Big ole sunny patio
included. Meanwhile, after five years of roasting coffee in Logan Square, Halfwit has a namesake café to
call its own. In conclusion: caffeine.

Friday

ROLL IT UP

            A Handsome Box of Cigars for Your Last-Minute Gifting Pleasure

There are last-minute gifts, and then there are last-minute gifts filled with Romeo Y Julieta cigars and
steak rub from Prime & Provisions. Be the person who gives the second one.

Saturday

BRUNCH OF CHAMPIONS

            This Is Precisely What a Brunch Buffet Should Look Like

A pancake station, a mac and cheese bar, an omelet station, a chili bar, a hot dog station and a Bloody Mary
bar. Those are some of the fantastical things that await you at Brickhouse Tavern’s new brunch. Other than
that, pretty restrained brunch.

WHISTLE STOP

            Still Holiday Party Season. Just Is.

Tis the season to drink some Caramelized Chocolate Churro Baltic Porter margaritas and dance the night away
to the deep cuts of local DJ and record collector, Joe Bryl. It’s all happening at the Whistler’s annual
Christmas party, which is really the only reason we mentioned that stuff up there.

Sunday

ACED IT

            Eggnog Soufflé and the Griswolds at City Mouse

On Christmas eve (or Christmas day, for that matter), you can either enjoy some herb-roasted beef ribeye at
home, or you can enjoy it with a side of eggnog soufflé and a screening of Christmas Vacation at
City Mouse at Ace Hotel. Or you can do both because obviously you’re going to do both.

What Else Is New

WHAT ABOUT BOB

            The Trump Administration Panic Power Rankings Are Back

Find out who (or what)
nabbed the top spot. Then, if you feel so inclined, read about the most
perfect union between Sufjan Stevens’s music and Oscar frontrunner, Call Me By Your Name. Oh,
and here’s a
Shakespearean sonnet composed for the drunken goddess of MTV’s Floribama Shore. It’s the first
of its kind. And probably the last.

Sarah Freeman is often accused of hiding secrets in her hair. She can make any cocktail, as long as that cocktail is a rye Old Fashioned, and has never met a saison she didn’t like.

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