Indulge Milwaukee to host exclusive fine dining event at AmFam Field
 
Milwaukee’s food industry is getting a spotlight as the Wisconsin Restaurant Association Education Foundation (WRAEF) is putting on the city’s first exclusive tasting experience on Aug. 20-21.
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Indulge Milwaukee provides an opportunity for top Milwaukee restaurants, national wine and spirits brands as well as regional specialty producers to offer the very best products for tasting. All proceeds of the event will go to WRAEF which oversees workforce development initiatives to attract and train workers for the food service industry.

WRAEF executive director Connie Fedor said the event will be important for the local and regional food service industry, which has suffered greatly through Covid-19.

“This is an opportunity to invest in the future workers of the industry and to attract that pipeline of talent,” Fedor said. “Restaurants serve at the center of our community, and this is a great way for people to support restaurants and ensure that they’re around.”

The event will take place at American Family Field as part of a two-day tasting experience. Indulge Milwaukee has secured 35 Milwaukee restaurants, 60 wine and spirit vendors, and 15 specialty food vendors all offering over 300 tasting opportunities.

With only 4,000 tickets available, the one-day ticket price is $150 with a VIP opportunity at $350 which offers on-field experience with some other exclusive opportunities.

Dan Sidner, who co-owns Milwaukee’s Black Shoe Hospitality, said all of his group’s restaurants and locations will be taking part in Indulge Milwaukee; that includes Story Hill BKC, Blue’s Egg, Buttermint Finer Dining, Maxie’s and Black Shoe Catering and Bakery.

“Our industry is faced with the lowest biggest deficit of employees in our history and we desperately need people not just work in restaurants but to think of restaurants as a career,” Sidner said. “Milwaukee, a community with the culinary caliber it is, should have an event like this. This is the kind of focused opportunity for someone to get hip to the restaurant community in Milwaukee.”

Have you ever wanted to enjoy samples from 35 of your favorite Milwaukee restaurants and dozens of wine and spirit brands all in one place?

And what if that place was in the stands of American Family Field?

If so, Aug. 20-21 is your lucky weekend.

The Wisconsin Restaurant Association Education Foundation and Badger Liquor are hosting the first Indulge Milwaukee food, wine and spirits tasting event at American Family Field.

Inspired by high-end food and beverage festivals like Chicago Gourmet and Aspen Food and Wine, Indulge will bring 35 of Milwaukee's locally owned restaurants and 60 local, national and international wine and spirit brands to the home of the Brewers. 

Additionally, the event will feature samples from 10 award-winning Wisconsin cheesemakers.
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Attendees can also see food and drink demonstrations by industry experts, such as seventh-generation Jim Beam master distiller Fred Noe and Larry O'Brien, one of 269 Master Sommeliers in the world.

A new event celebrating our local food scene is debuting this summer. Indulge Milwaukee is a food, wine and spirit tasting happening Aug. 20-21 at American Family Field (aka, the Milwaukee Brewers stadium).  

Hosted by Wisconsin Restaurant Association Education Foundation, the event includes several spotlighted components:

1. A Grand Tasting Area with food from 30-some Milwaukee restaurants and chefs. Along with the “gourmet bites,” there will be hundreds of wines and spirits sourced from all over the world. Participating restaurants include Antigua Latin Inspired Kitchen, Bacchus – A Bartolotta Restaurant, Bartolotta’s Lake Park Bistro, Blue’s Egg, Carnevor, Onesto, The Cheel, Maxie’s, Mo’s, a Place for Steaks and Ristorante Bartolotta dal 1993.
2.  A Proudly Wisconsin Cheese & Wine Pavilion, featuring award-winning artisanal cheeses paired with wines and charcuterie.
3.  Culinary & Mixology Demos from award-winning chefs, distillers, mixologists and sommeliers 
4. A VIP Experience, which they’re calling a “one-of-a-kind, extraordinary on-field stadium experience at American Family Field.” Spirits, craft cocktails and wine pours will be paired with culinary creations from The Bartolotta Restaurants.

A new culinary festival of food, wine and spirits is coming to American Family Field in August, and tickets are on sale now.

Indulge Milwaukee promises to offer tastings from award-winning chefs, mixologists and wine professionals with 100% of the proceeds to benefit the Wisconsin Restaurant Association Education Foundation, a charitable organization that provides education and training to current and future industry professionals.

The event hours are noon to 5 p.m. Aug. 20 and 21. The cost is $150 for a Grand Tasting ticket, which provides entrance into the Grand Tasting Area, the Wine & Cheese Pavilion, and the Culinary and Mixology Demonstration Area. A limited number of VIP tickets will be sold at $350 each, which give additional access to a two hour on-field stadium experience of tastings, including sitting in the dugout.