Fat Tuesday is in just a few days, and there’s a way to celebrate it in South Milwaukee style — with paczki!
Wild Flour Bakery makes and sells all their Polish treats at their South Milwaukee bakery at 1205 Milwaukee Ave. Raspberry, bavarian cream, lemon and prune are available for pickup and purchase from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday.
Pre-orders are appreciated. Call 414-571-1298 to place your order or learn more.
Learn more about paczki here. And happy Fat Tuesday!
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Fat Tuesday is tomorrow … why not celebrate with some local paczkis?
Wild Flour Bakery is baking these Polish treats at its South Milwaukee location, 1205 Milwaukee Ave. Paczkis are priced at 79 cents each, $4.50 half dozen, and $8.99 per dozen.
And they are available in raspberry, bavarian cream, lemon, and prune.
Stop by and buy one or a dozen!
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The downtown momentum continues, with some more great news for South Milwaukee’s central business district.
Wild Flour Bakery is set to reopen its storefront retail space by Thanksgiving, according to Jaime Salazar, who will run the store at 1205 Milwaukee Ave.
Hours will be Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 9-4.
Jaime tells me the store will offer baked goods like pastries, breads, cookies and muffins, with the potential of offering hot and cold lunches and other prepared foods in 2015, depending on customer feedback. Customers will also be able to order Thanksgiving pies at the store in coming weeks. And they will offer catering.
The interior (which features a kitchen in the back, where Wild Flour has continued to use even with the storefront closed) will also get a facelift with new paint and decor.
I wish Jaime and the staff at Wild Flour the best of luck — and thank them for continuing to invest in downtown South Milwaukee. I’m excited to see new life for the store that closed more than three years ago, and look forward to even more good news for downtown in coming weeks and months.
From MKE City Sippers to Wild Flour Bakery to Board Game Barrister (opening soon), and more, we’re just getting started when it comes to downtown South Milwaukee!
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The positive momentum continues for South Milwaukee’s downtown with the reopening of the Wild Flour Bakery’s retail store.
You’ll recall that the store at 1205 Milwaukee closed over the summer due to slow sales, but its baking operations remained. See my previous post on that here.
I am told it reopened Tuesday. So I stopped by tonight and picked up some fresh-based raisin bread, cinnamon rolls and Packer-themed cookies. Yum!
Welcome back, Wild Flour!
(And don’t forget that Wild Flour will also be at both South Milwaukee Christmas Markets on Dec. 3 and 10 at Caterpillar.)
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Update: I’ve been told that baking operations continue in the rear portion of the South Milwaukee store for the other Wild Flour locations, farmers’ markets and wholesale customers.
South Milwaukee’s Wild Flour Bakery retail store has closed.
According to the sign on the door at 1205 Milwaukee Ave., posted in the last few days:
Our South Milwaukee retail store has been closed. Our products are available at our three other retail stores and will be available at the South Milwaukee Farmers’ Market in June. We will be at South Shore and many area markets very soon. Please feel free to contact us on our Facebook site and let us know if you would like see this store re-opened. — Thank you! Wild Flour
While I’m glad Wild Flour is still planning to join us at the market this summer, this is another blow to downtown South Milwaukee. And it’s disappointing.
Simply put, we need to do more to ensure businesses like Wild Flour not only want to locate here, but also thrive once they’re in town. That is not the case now.
Yet there is some hope. I am optimistic that the study of our downtown being done by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students will help light our way forward. But it will only be as good as our commitment as community leaders to bring these ideas to life.
You will be able to hear some of those ideas at our next City Council meeting on May 17. That meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. to allow some extra time for the presentation from the graduate students.
I hope to see you there … and to not seeing what happened with Wild Flour repeated.
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