A nice vote of support

Yesterday Milwaukee Magazine released their annual readers choice award results.

Water Buffalo was named best moderately priced restaurant and runner up to Trocadero for best outdoor dining. The real pleasant surprise was Swig being voted in for the Tapas/Small Plate category, we had only been open a month in the new location and closed for 9 months so again, a bit surprised by that one.

Wine Tasting events

This week we have taken the first step at Swig back to our popular wine tasting events. The first step was the re-installation of our weekly feature list, excited vendors take the opportunity to fill that feature list with new and exciting wines and the ones that our guests demand more consistent supply of end up on our main menu and are almost always featured as part of our wine tasting program.

For those of you who don't remember, the wine tastings occur once a month. We taste 2 reds, 2 whites and a sparkling plus you choose one small plate. All for $25 a person. Plus we sell the tasted wine at a discount at the end of the evening.

Look for more details soon.

Every once in a while..

The pieces don't all fit together and play nice. That was our problem tonight, Saturday July 5th at Water Buffalo.
All was fine until the witching hour of about 830pm. We were running a bit short staffed with the holiday and everyone was doing their best to pitch in so as few guests experiences were affected as possible. But, we crashed and burned, I have no excuse, we did all we could to save the ship as she was sinking but to no avail. I'd say about 85% of our guests left pleased tonight and that's pretty far away from making me comfortable. So what's the point of this rant? To say that I'm sorry and we're human and we make mistakes. I hope if you did join us tonight that you either finished your meal very satisfied or at least I got a chance to chat with you for a bit to say I'm sorry for ruining your night. If neither of those two things happened, please visit the home page of this site and send me an email so that I can make it up to you.