” Both burger purveyors have been dutifully building the drama. The show touts this match as a battle between the “old school, established ‘best burger’ in Milwaukee and… the new kid on the block.
If you follow AJ Bombers on Twitter, you couldn’t have missed the barrage of Tweets about “Foods Wars.” Today (Thursday, May 6), tomorrow and Saturday, a crew from the Travel Channel is filming segments for the burger battle between Bombers and Sobelman’s. The menu, too, seems rather complete, with salads and sandwiches to steak, pastas and fresh seafood. Once Harbor House opens in mid-July, it will ostensibly have it all – a 180-seat dining room, two outdoor patios (one, overlooking the lake, will seat 100) and a raw bar (oysters, clams, etc.). You may have an opinion on whether a restaurant is the best use of this space, but it would be hard to think of a local restaurateur better equipped to build a successful dining establishment. The cold calm of sailboats floating on the gray-blue Lake Michigan waves, nearby the piratey masts of the Denis Sullivan. That’s certainly a controversial statement. Joe B has been quoted saying this location offers the best view in the city. Its exterior will be gray cedar shake with white trim. Once completed, the Harbor House, as envisioned by the partnership behind it (Mike Cudahy and Joe Bartolotta) will look like a seafood restaurant from Cape Cod. Except work in progress – men in hard hats, dump trucks and piles of building materials. Right now, as the Harbor House – Pieces of Eight’s replacement – takes shape, there isn’t a lot to see. (When I was a kid, the restaurant’s interior reminded me of the Regal Beagle from “Three’s Company.”) And its old digs are quickly becoming a distant memory.
Harbor Dr.) is becoming a distant memory.
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