Yesterday I was in Milwaukee at a client site. We had our whole team there and some executives, which meant that we were going to have a nice dinner, rather than a dinner at the hotel diner. I was thinking we’d be going to our regular steakhouse (Mo’s Steakhouse, which is YUMMY!) but our client suggested a new place. So I was given the job of looking the place up and making reservations (only female on team = secretary…j/k. not!). So I was told to look for a restaurant called Carnivorous. The women I was working with were like, “Carnivorous? I’ve never heard of it! Is that seriously the name of the place?” I made some jokes that it was a dinosaur-themed restaurant with velociraptors serving your food. So I searched on the internet for it, and the only think I could find for “carnivorous milwaukee” were links to the local zoo. With three people searching (and whispering under our breath, “I don’t think this place exists!”) we finally found the restaurant - “Carnevor”, which is a pretty new restaurant in downtown Milwaukee. I went to their website and lo and behold - their logo is a velociraptor claw! No joke! I must have ESPN or sumtin’.

Anyway, the restaurant is one of your typical trendy restaurants with the super friendly and almost dramatic waiters - nice and dark so you don’t really have to see who you’re talking to. The food I would give four stars out of five. Very good, though I think the appetizers could have had more flavor to them. I’m a fan of escargot, and their escargot appetizer, while good, didn’t have enough flavor for me. My steak was awesome - I got it medium rare with herbed butter on top. By the time I got it, I was full of bread (the butter they server with it is yummy, though a little salty if you put on too much) and appetizers. But the 5 bites I had from my steak were delicious - the garlic butter added the right amount of flavor to it. I wasn’t a fan of the brussel sprout side we got, but I did like the exotic mushroom and mashed potato sides.

All in all, I would recommend the place - if you can pay the $30 - $160 price for a steak (which doesn’t count any of the other stuff). “$160?” you say? Why yes - they’ve got Kobe beef that is actually from Kobe, Japan, the best 1% of steaks, so rich and tender you could cut it with a butter knife. Or at least that’s what our waiter said!

Crab cake, escargot and rock shrimp

Mmmmm….steak!

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