Burek in Milwaukee

A friend is going to Milwaukee which reminded me that I’d love to visit that city again – I was there in, um, 2006 or so, and stayed at the grand old Pfister Hotel (on the company’s dime). Highlights were roaming around the old Third Ward district downtown (where I ate good french food at the Coquette Cafe), visiting Usinger’s sausage shop, visiting the art museum with its fantastic Santiago Calatrava architecture and eating burek (akin to Greek Spanakopita – or spinach-and-cheese-pie) in the Old World atmosphere of  Three Brothers, a Serbian restaurant. The burek was huge and took awhile to make so I brought much of it home on the plane with me. I also remember being struck by how lovely and undeveloped the city’s lake-shore was.