The story
After 113 years as Milwaukee's iconic German restaurant, where Jack and Jackie Kennedy and Liberace dined. A 2016 revival lasted less than a year. 'I am no longer able to sustain keeping Karl Ratzsch open.
Everything that was here
- 1904–2017
Karl RatzschGerman
After 113 years as Milwaukee's iconic German restaurant, where Jack and Jackie Kennedy and Liberace dined. A 2016 revival lasted less than a year. 'I am no longer able to sustain keeping Karl Ratzsch open.
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Karl Ratzsch's RestaurantRestaurant
Summerfest, Milwaukee's world-famous music festival, was conceived in a booth at this 113-year-old German restaurant before it served its last schnitzel.
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