Dan Van Rite News Today

After batting zero in the James Beards in 2023, Minnesota is back to claim another Best Chef Midwest Award.

Plus: Summerfest adds food vendors; new Japanese restaurant; 3rd Street Market Halls changes.

Dozens of new eats for this years festival, including birria bao, yakisoba noodles and boba tea.

The list of 15 include a boba cafe, sandwich shop and Thai restaurant.

Many openings and few closings this past month in Milwaukee restaurant news.

James Beard Award nominated chefs Dan Jacobs and Dan Van Rite will reopen their high-end tasting menu concept, EsterEv, on April 17 in Milwaukees Bay View neighborhood.

The upscale tasting-menu restaurant will begin serving diners on April 17.

The new brick-and-mortar restaurant gives voice to the concept in a new way.

While Wisconsin has been gaining national recognition as a culinary destination, “Top Chef: Wisconsin” will further elevate the state’s foodie status.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WFRV) - Two chefs at a popular restaurant in Wisconsin have been nominated for the 2024 Restaurant and Chef Awards from the James Beard Foundation. Dan Jacobs and Dan Van Rite from EsterEv in Milwaukee will go against four other chefs to compete for the Best Chef in the Midwest Regi