Tuesday, June 11, 2013

koppa's fubeli deli

after visiting lakefront brewery, we circled back to koppa's afterward...which is directly across the street from the comet cafe and where our car was parked at.  this place is a corner store with a deli and are supposed to be really famous for their sandwiches.
the uranus (hehe): corned beef, horesradish, swiss, alfalfa, red onions on rye
inside is really...interesting. there are old couches, an atari set, and animal heads along the walls. although "interesting", not really the most comfortable place to want to eat at/i don't know if you can eat there??? so we ended up bringing our sandwich back to the hotel. we had to check in anyways lol

in normal swong fashion, i had more places to eat at to than meals available and had to have the boy split a sammy with me.

for $5.99, it's was pretty good. at first i thought it was kind of expensive, but the boyf rationalized it saying it's close in price at potbelly's but with more interesting/better ingredients. goood point.  and i guess the deli guy knew we were splitting because he packed two pickles and two crybaby gumballs with our sandwich. extra like!


Friday, June 7, 2013

lakefront brewery

after brunch at the comet cafe, we took a walk over to lakefront brewery which took about 20 minutes.
sign by their bottling station
everyday they have tours for $7, which includes:
  • 4 6oz pours (aka 2 full beers)*
  • a very entertaining tour
  • a pint glass
  • a coupon for ANOTHER beer from a list of restaurants**
*only used 3/4 tokens because i'm a loser
**didn't use because reason of above :(  

this was our second time visiting/doing the tour. and i would totally go back again. in addition to having delish beers (their organic ESB is drewsy's all time fave), it's a great place to hang out and daydrink at.  they have a huge room w tons of windows and it's located on the river. also  - reddit/yelp/the bloggies say that their fish fries on fridays are pretty great. sadly our hotel was for sat-monday and we missed out this time :( 

hanging out in their hall while waiting for our tour
beers we tasted on this visit: 
  1. fixed gear, red ale
  2. fuel cafe, organic coffee stout
  3. rendezvous, biere de garde
  4. riverwest stein, amber lager
  5. local acre 100% wisconsin grown, imperial pilsner
  6. *unnamed*, IPA (which they're not sure they're going to bottle)

IDK WHO THIS PERSON IS
even though we had done the tour before, it was still a total blast. the tour guide was super entertaining and even referenced falcon punch. waayyy worth the $7. i'm down for going back -- esp on a friday to check out their fish fry. (maybe summerfest weekend? eh? eh??)