Downtown Kitchen

Downtown Kitchen offers a variety of options including sandwiches, sushi, pizza, pasta, and tacos. There’s a bakery, a salad bar, and a grab-and-go wall as well. Located in the US Bank building, it’s a short walk from the waterfront, and there are a lot of seating options inside. Most of the stations stop serving at 2:30, though the grab-and-go is available until 4.

I check the specialties often and one of the items I absolutely loved was the shrimp poboy. On warm french bread, they put decent sized breaded fried shrimp, lettuce, tomato and a wonderful aioli. Wouldn't say it was the best poboy I had but was definitely one of the better ones and if it's ever on their specials again I won't care what my work is offer for lunch, I might just have to get that shrimp poboy and save it for dinner later.

Downtown Kitchen has a number of things going for it: hip design, great food selection to suit a variety of appetites, convenient location for US Bank and 833 E Michigan employees/visitors. I chose the soup and salad bar and it was good... although the chicken soup was a little bland. The thing is...I found the prices to be on the high side, and I live/work in Chicago so that's saying something. I don't mind paying more for better quality ingredients and the like, yet I can't say that that equation applies in the case of Downtown Kitchen. My guess is that the higher prices are more to do with a captive audience...there are few (to no) alternatives nearby, And given the colder temps lately, it's unlikely one would venture outside to save a couple bucks. Overall, not bad, and I'll probably return, just a bit surprised by the prices.

The food was pretty good considering it is more of a cafeteria style restaurant located in the heart of downtown Milwaukee. Good food but is self service. We are out of towners, when we went I took my mother and my two children (8 & 6). I didn't see any other kids mostly seems like it is set up to support the people working downtown in the surrounding office buildings.