Cafe at The Pfister News – The Pfister Hotel https://media.thepfisterhotel.com Press Room Thu, 13 Jun 2019 13:43:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 THE CAFÉ AT THE PFISTER NOW SERVING DINNER https://media.thepfisterhotel.com/?p=1243 Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:03:51 +0000 http://pfistermedia.wpengine.com/?p=1243 The Café at The Pfister®, pharm located inside the lobby of the historic Pfister® Hotel, which is owned and managed by Marcus® Hotels & Resorts, is now open for dinner, in addition to serving breakfast and lunch. The café’s all-new dinner menu features home comfort favorites and suppertime classics.

The dinner menu offers everything from soup, generic salad and sandwich options to “Breakfast for Dinner” and a special children’s menu. The stars of the dinner menu are the “Home Comfort Classics,” which range from New York Strip and Low Country Meatloaf to Herb-Baked Half Chicken and Garlic Shrimp Linguini, each served with the soup du jour or house salad. The lobby-level café, formerly known as the Hotel Pfister Café and The Greenery through the early 1900s, discontinued dinner service in 2008.

“Both our guests and our staff are thrilled to once again offer dinner in the café,” said Tim Smith, general manager of The Pfister. “We feel it will offer our guests and the downtown community great food with quality ingredients at an affordable price point. We hope those who’ve dined with us in the past will come back and resume their dinner tradition and our guests who haven’t had a chance to experience dinner in the café will create new memories here.”

The Café at The Pfister will serve dinner Tuesday-Thursday from 5:00 – 9:00 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 5:00 – 10:00 p.m. It will be closed for dinner on Sundays and Mondays. The Cafe will continue to be open for breakfast and lunch and the barista counter and patisserie counter will still offer Starbucks® coffee on-the-go and freshly baked-in-house pastries, gourmet desserts and other items until 8:00 p.m. each day.

For more information on the latest news and updates from Marcus Hotels & Resorts, please visit: http://media.marcushotels.com.

About The Pfister Hotel

The Pfister Hotel has been the premier hotel in downtown Milwaukee for over 120 years.  Originally built in 1893 by businessman Guido Pfister, it was the most lavish hotel of its time. The hotel’s storied elegance had faded following World War II, until 1962, when Ben Marcus, founder of The Marcus Corporation, purchased this grand hotel out of bankruptcy.  The Marcus family renovated and restored the hotel to its original glory, adding convention facilities, a parking garage and 23-story guest tower. The Pfister Hotel remains home to the largest collection of Victorian art of any hotel in the world, and recently unveiled an interactive augmented reality tour of pieces in this impressive collection.

Today the Pfister Hotel continues its tradition of gracious service and impeccable style, and has been recognized for 39 consecutive years by AAA as a Four-Diamond property.  The hotel is also an ongoing member of two prestigious organizations, the Historic Hotels of America and Preferred Hotels & Resorts Worldwide. The Pfister Hotel is located at 424 E. Wisconsin Ave. in downtown Milwaukee. More information and updates on the hotel can be found on Facebook at www.facebook.com/thePfisterHotel and on Twitter (@PfisterHotel).

About Marcus Hotels & Resorts

Marcus Hotels & Resorts, a division of The Marcus Corporation (NYSE: MCS), owns and/or manages 20 hotels, resorts and other properties in 11 states.  A force in the hospitality industry, Marcus Hotels & Resorts provides expertise in management, development and historic renovations.  The company’s portfolio includes a wide variety of properties including city-center meeting hotels, upscale resorts and branded first-class hotels.  For more information on the latest news and updates, please visit: http://media.marcushotels.com and follow the company on Facebook and Twitter.

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Afternoon Tea Service Returns to the Pfister https://media.thepfisterhotel.com/?p=477 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:50:16 +0000 http://pfistermedia.wpengine.com/?p=477 Original article by: Evan Rytlewki for expressmilwaukee.com

It’s never easy to upset a decade’s old tradition, prescription particularly one as deep-rooted as afternoon tea, but several years ago, after decades of hosting winter tea service in its grand Lobby Lounge, the Pfister Hotel moved the service upstairs to its 23rd-floor Blu Lounge. “We heard some negative reactions from longtime patrons who were used to having their tea in the lobby by the huge Christmas tree, click ” explains Juan Rodriguez, who began serving as the hotel’s tea butler in 1983. “But once they got up to Blu and experienced its beautiful atmosphere and its view of the lake and the city, they just loved it.”

With its modern décor and a striking color scheme that lends the lounge its name, Blu may be an interesting setting for an otherwise traditional tea service where tea is served in 18th-century replica self-tipping silver pots, but it’s a fittingly comfortable environment for a ritual predicated on relaxation.

The service begins with a tableside presentation during which Rodriguez introduces each tea, explaining its ingredients, its origins and how it was harvested. Most of the nine varieties come from Sri Lanka. “We pass the jars around to people so they can smell their aromas, which makes it easier for them to select the teas they’ll be drinking,” Rodriguez says. “It’s a lot more informative smelling them than it is reading about them on a menu.”

The Pfister offers several packages of sweets, sandwiches and cheeses to accompany each tea selection. The $18 sweets package includes chocolate-dipped strawberries, shortbread cookies, madeleines and macaroons, an opera torte and scones with mascarpone, lemon curd and strawberry preserves. The $30 Victorian tea package includes those sweets and adds a feast of Scottish smoked salmon, herb-roasted turkey pinwheels, curried quail eggs and other savory snacks. And for kids 12 and younger, there’s a tea-free option with hot chocolate, cider or milk that includes ham and cheddar finger sandwiches, peanut butter and jelly scones and madeleines. Some of those kids will grow up to become annual guests, Rodriguez says.

“I recall some kids who could barely crawl on the couches, and now they come back and they have gone to college and some even have children of their own,” Rodriguez says. “We have regulars who have been coming for tea service for over 20 years; they like to keep the tradition.”

The Pfister’s tea service runs 3-4:30 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through March 24. Reservations are required.

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Milwaukee pastry chefs showcase their favorite desserts https://media.thepfisterhotel.com/?p=459 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:44:24 +0000 http://pfistermedia.wpengine.com/?p=459 Original article by: Chris Patterson for realmilwaukeenow.com

Host of Wisconsin Foodie Kyle Cherek stops by Real Milwaukee to show off some of Milwaukee’s best pastry chefs. Annie Ghobrial from the Bartolotta Group shows off her tasty lemon tarts.  Jennisher Carlson from the Pfister shows off her Key Lime Pie, look and adds extra garnishes to top off her dessert. Kurt Vogel from the Surge group shows off his version of a creamsicle.  Kelsy McCreight from the Iron Horse Hotel presents her almond cake with creme fraiche and persimmon mousse.

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