Barbeque continues to gain popularity in this area and not

In recent years, chains featuring Mongolian barbecue have appeared in Glendale and Brookfield. They can be fun, as you choose fresh ingredients, noodles and sauce and then have a chef cook them for you on a large flat-topped grill. The veteran in this field is Wauwatosa’s Genghis Khan (725 N. Mayfair Road)...

Dale’s (6132 W. Capitol Drive), located on a very busy street, has a welcoming façade and a parking lot. Most of the patrons gather in the bar area, a dark room with a few tables, but they come for the food as well as the drinks. The crowd, which tends to be older, finds good value in a menu that...

Finding really good barbecue is a challenge in this area. By “barbecue,” I’m referring to meats that have been wood-smoked, not beef brisket or ribs drowning in an overly sweet, smoke-flavored sauce. In the South, the telltale sign of real barbecue is a wisp of smoke emanating from...

Devotees of the Silver Spur Texas Smokehouse are thanking their lucky stars that the 18-year-old restaurant barely skipped a beat after a fire destroyed its former digs at 19990 W. Greenfield Ave. in Brookfield a year ago. As owners Frank Hornick, Joe Zupan and Sondra Bartolotta sifted through the ashes...