Braise Restaurant and Culinary School will open in fall 2011. Braise Restaurant will have a commitment to local foods; the menu will change often, featuring seasonal ingredients from Wisconsin farmers. These farmers not only supply all of the ingredients but are also investors in the restaurant.
Located in the Historic and diverse neighborhood of Walker’s Point, the restaurant space consists of two conjoined buildings: a 1907 cream-city brick building and a 1940’s era former bowling alley. Braise will repurpose much of the original building materials; bowling alley lanes, hardwood floors and tin ceilings. The space will include community and traditional seating, a brick oven and a food bar for guests to watch the chefs at work. We will even have an on-site culinary school and our own roof top garden! Braise sample items can include a spring time roasted asparagus and morel mushroom ragout served with a hand-made gnocchi; a late summer heirloom tomato salad; and braised pork belly with winter lacinato kale and beans. We will also feature fresh pastries, condiments and cocktails, including bread, pickled veggies, and fresh fruit-based cocktails made from scratch at the restaurant.
How Can You Get Involved?
We’d love for you to join us and are thrilled to offer memberships to Braise Restaurant and Culinary School, Milwaukee’s first Community Supported Restaurant. This is an exciting new way to get involved while supporting your dining community, combined with the opportunity to partake in a variety of culinary experiences. What is a Community Supported Restaurant? Think CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), which is a way for individuals in the community to support a farm by buying shares upfront and in return being delivered fresh vegetables during the growing season. Take this idea and adapt it for a restaurant, by buying shares (memberships) and in return receiving dinners and/or cooking classes throughout the year.
Every membership level offers vouchers to be used for dinners, cooking classes and events with Braise. Select memberships also include Kitchen Worker Shares, Private Cooking Classes and memberships to the Urban Ecology Center and Family Farm Defenders. You can even get your name inscribed on a vegetable or herb planter in the rooftop garden! As a valued member, you will also be the first to find out about special events and dinners at Braise Restaurant and Culinary School and Braise-on-the-Go.
Membership Program Options
Located in the Historic and diverse neighborhood of Walker’s Point, the restaurant space consists of two conjoined buildings: a 1907 cream-city brick building and a 1940’s era former bowling alley. Braise will repurpose much of the original building materials; bowling alley lanes, hardwood floors and tin ceilings. The space will include community and traditional seating, a brick oven and a food bar for guests to watch the chefs at work. We will even have an on-site culinary school and our own roof top garden! Braise sample items can include a spring time roasted asparagus and morel mushroom ragout served with a hand-made gnocchi; a late summer heirloom tomato salad; and braised pork belly with winter lacinato kale and beans. We will also feature fresh pastries, condiments and cocktails, including bread, pickled veggies, and fresh fruit-based cocktails made from scratch at the restaurant.
How Can You Get Involved?
We’d love for you to join us and are thrilled to offer memberships to Braise Restaurant and Culinary School, Milwaukee’s first Community Supported Restaurant. This is an exciting new way to get involved while supporting your dining community, combined with the opportunity to partake in a variety of culinary experiences. What is a Community Supported Restaurant? Think CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), which is a way for individuals in the community to support a farm by buying shares upfront and in return being delivered fresh vegetables during the growing season. Take this idea and adapt it for a restaurant, by buying shares (memberships) and in return receiving dinners and/or cooking classes throughout the year.
Every membership level offers vouchers to be used for dinners, cooking classes and events with Braise. Select memberships also include Kitchen Worker Shares, Private Cooking Classes and memberships to the Urban Ecology Center and Family Farm Defenders. You can even get your name inscribed on a vegetable or herb planter in the rooftop garden! As a valued member, you will also be the first to find out about special events and dinners at Braise Restaurant and Culinary School and Braise-on-the-Go.
Membership Program Options
| • | Enjoy fresh and delicious culinary experiences |
| • | Save money by buying in advance |
| • | Gain exclusive access to special Braise events |
| • | Participate in fun team-building opportunities for your staff or family with cooking classes and other educational opportunities |
| • | Provide unique, local dining experiences for clients, family and friends |
| • | Support sustainable food growth and local and businesses |
Why get involved?
About Braise Local Foods
Our goal at Braise is to support the community by improving the local food system in numerous ways:
Feed - Restaurant
Providing hand-crafted meals that allow the integrity of local ingredients shine
Educate - Culinary School
Teaching the cooking techniques, and sustainable growing methods, both at our restaurant and through Braise-on-the-Go
Connect - Home Delivery
Delivering farm fresh foods to your front door
Provide - RSA
(Restaurant Supported Agriculture)
Supplying local foods to area restaurants
Our goal at Braise is to support the community by improving the local food system in numerous ways:
Feed - Restaurant
Providing hand-crafted meals that allow the integrity of local ingredients shine
Educate - Culinary School
Teaching the cooking techniques, and sustainable growing methods, both at our restaurant and through Braise-on-the-Go
Connect - Home Delivery
Delivering farm fresh foods to your front door
Provide - RSA
(Restaurant Supported Agriculture)
Supplying local foods to area restaurants
* Only two (2) $100 vouchers may be redeemed per party, per month even if the party receives more than one check. Not valid for taxes or tips. Valid for dine-in only. Kitchen Worker Share and Private Cooking Class participation is limited to availability.
Vouchers and Shares
Kitchen Worker Share - Experience what it takes to cook in a restaurant by spending a day in the kitchen working and learning from professional chefs. Depending upon your level of ambition, you may choose to watch and learn or roll up your sleeves and mix it up with the chefs! Afterwards, sit down, relax, and enjoy dinner for two with a bottle of wine. Approximate value: $500.00
Private Cooking Classes - Enjoy a personalized cooking class for 8 people. This is a demonstration class of the topic of your choosing. All you have to do is sit back, relax and enjoy the food, drink and recipes. Approximate value: $800.00
Special Dinners/Events - Be the first in line for Farmer Dinners, Sunday Suppers and other special events. A definite must for busy calendars.
Urban Ecology Center and Family Farm Defenders Memberships - In keeping with the Braise philosophy of supporting community organizations and learning more about local food systems, we'd like to help you get involved, too. Approximate value: $35.00 annually
Veggie Vanity - Have a friend or family's name (or your own!) inscribed on a vegetable or herb planter on our rooftop garden. The name will be forever associated with that item. Approximate value: Priceless!
What will my membership support?
Your membership will help support some of the programs behind the philosophy of Braise Restaurant:
Vouchers and Shares
Kitchen Worker Share - Experience what it takes to cook in a restaurant by spending a day in the kitchen working and learning from professional chefs. Depending upon your level of ambition, you may choose to watch and learn or roll up your sleeves and mix it up with the chefs! Afterwards, sit down, relax, and enjoy dinner for two with a bottle of wine. Approximate value: $500.00
Private Cooking Classes - Enjoy a personalized cooking class for 8 people. This is a demonstration class of the topic of your choosing. All you have to do is sit back, relax and enjoy the food, drink and recipes. Approximate value: $800.00
Special Dinners/Events - Be the first in line for Farmer Dinners, Sunday Suppers and other special events. A definite must for busy calendars.
Urban Ecology Center and Family Farm Defenders Memberships - In keeping with the Braise philosophy of supporting community organizations and learning more about local food systems, we'd like to help you get involved, too. Approximate value: $35.00 annually
Veggie Vanity - Have a friend or family's name (or your own!) inscribed on a vegetable or herb planter on our rooftop garden. The name will be forever associated with that item. Approximate value: Priceless!
What will my membership support?
Your membership will help support some of the programs behind the philosophy of Braise Restaurant:
| • | 45 - $100 vouchers redeemable for any dinner/cooking class/event with Braise Restaurant |
| • | Urban Ecology Center Family Membership for 3 years |
| • | 2 vouchers for a Kitchen Worker Share at Braise Restaurant with Chef David Swanson |
| • | Name inscribed on vegetable planter on rooftop garden |
| • | 1 Private Cooking Class for up to 8 people at Braise Culinary School |
| • | Family Farm Defenders Membership for 2 years |
Morel: $5,000 ($6,455 value- no expiration date)
| • | 20 - $100 vouchers redeemable for any dinner/cooking class/event with Braise Restaurant |
| • | Urban Ecology Center Family Membership for 2 years |
| • | 1 voucher for a Kitchen Worker Share at Braise Restaurant with Chef David Swanson |
| • | Name inscribed on vegetable planter on rooftop garden |
| • | 1 Private Cooking Class for up to 8 people at Braise Culinary School |
| • | Family Farm Defenders Membership for 2 years |
Tomato: $2,500 ($3,420 value- no expiration date)
| • | 10 - $100 vouchers redeemable for any dinner/cooking class/event with Braise Restaurant |
| • | Urban Ecology Center Family Membership for 2 years |
| • | 1 voucher for Kitchen Worker Share at Braise Restaurant with Chef David Swanson |
| • | Name inscribed on vegetable planter on rooftop garden |
Asparagus: $1,000 ($1,570 value- valid for two years)
| • | 6-$100 vouchers redeemable for any dinner/cooking class/event with Braise Restaurant |
| • | Urban Ecology Center Family Membership for 1 year |
Fiddlehead: $500 ($635 value-valid for one year)
| • | 3 - $100 vouchers redeemable for any dinner/cooking class/event with Braise Restaurant |
Ramp: $250 ($300 value-valid for one year)
Please join us in supporting farm-to-fork eating and savor the best our local bounty has to offer!
For more information and to purchase a membership, go to our online ordering system.
Dave Swanson
Chef/Owner Braise
For more information and to purchase a membership, go to our online ordering system.
Dave Swanson
Chef/Owner Braise
| • | Composting |
| • | Vermiculture |
| • | Rain barrel and water conservation measures |
| • | Rooftop gardening |
| • | Solar hot water system |