Milwaukee restaurateur Valdemar Escobar says he likes to bring new ones to Milwaukee. Now he is about to complete his new place, Asadero Fiesta Garibaldi, describing it as a high-end Mexican steakhouse.
It will open at 3086 S. 20th St. on West Oklahoma Avenue. It is the former site of Fritz’s Pub, a relative tavern circle offering Serbian dishes and a popular fried Friday that closed its doors in October 2019, after 41 years of activity.
Asadero will continue to serve Fritz’s fry on Fridays: Escobar bought the proceeds with the building, and Djuric’s recently retired circle of relatives showed up to help with the fry for the first month when the place to eat opens, he said.
But the main objective of Asadero will be steaks and the incorporation of other cooking strategies and presentations: fillets in salt blocks, fillets on wooden boards. “We’ll check to use the meat,” as well as the local beef, Escobar said.
The steaks will be seasoned for 24 hours and cooked on a grill, he said.
Guests will be greeted at the table with miniature quesadillas filled with cincho cheese from the Escobar circle of the family cheese factory in Mexico, served with various types of sauce.
The menu will be brief, but the place to eat will offer daily specialties and seafood that can be ordered in mixture with steaks as well as pasta.
Escobar also hopes to open the place for lunch, serving panini, salads with organic ingredients and tacos enriched with bone marrow. “We’ll specialize in this,” he said. “When the waiters serve you tacos, they’ll put them right in your tacos for that special flavor.”
An exhibition of Mexican wines, home to the first vineyards in North America, will be one of the first things consumers will see when they enter the restaurant. The giant bar, with a capacity for 35 to 40 seats, will buy a wide variety of mezcal and tequila, he said.
You’ll have cocktails like mezcal, freshly squeezed orange juice, onion, pepper and new lime juice, such as Micheladas and other beverages.
Escobar: owner of brunch Fiesta Cafe at 1407 S. 1st. St., Fiesta Garibaldi at 821 W. Lincoln Ave., Fat Valdy’s Bar and Grill at 5108 W. Blue Mound Road, and various places of Chicken Palace and La Michoacana Glaciers – prefers to open Fiesta Garibaldi’s Keeper Keeper once visitors can dine indoors.
The latest public order of physical fitness from the City of Milwaukee stipulates that restaurants must submit a COVID-19 protection plan; If plans are accepted by the Department of Health, restaurants can run 100 percent of their capacity.
Asadero plans to install visitors on any of the construction floors. Most of the seats are in the bar; Escobar plans to use the two floors of the construction as it cannot accommodate more than 12 tables in the dining rooms, just six.
He also installed an open kitchen for visitors to see chefs in the paintings and got rid of the hanging ceilings, among other modifications to the 1908 building.
Meanwhile, Barbecue Asadero, a food truck, serves takeaways such as sandwiches and ribs from the restaurant parking lot, Escobar said. It is open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday.
Fiesta Garibaldi’s Asadero will probably be open every day.
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