Stanley and Beatrice Strucel opened Strucel’s Supper Club in 1963, and within just a short time they would be advertising it, with only a bit of hyperbole, as “Milwaukee’s most exquisite restaurant and cocktail lounge.” Strucel’s was a grand place, and on most nights of the week the restaurant would be packed with patrons who kept coming back for its prime-rib and fish-fry dinners.
By the mid-1980s Stanley and Beatrice were ready to retire from the restaurant business, and in 1985 they sold Strucel’s to their son Jack and his wife, Barbara Jean (“BJ”). (Beatrice died four years later, and Stanley died at age 86 in 2005.) The younger Strucels ran the restaurant and bar for 11 years and watched the neighborhood around it gradually decline until, as Jack put it, “we made the very difficult decision to sell.”
Strucel’s closed on August 10, 1996. A little while after that it reopened with a new owner and a new name—Alondra’s Restaurant. Within a year, however, a fire put Alondra’s out of business, and the building at 8253 West Appleton Avenue has pretty much been a boarded-up shell ever since.
Sour Cream Salad Dressing
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- 1 quart sour cream
- 1/4 cup diced chives
- 1/2 teaspoon ground white pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/3 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
Instructions
Add all ingredients to mixing bowl and mix at low speed only to the point of blending. Avoid overmixing. Refrigerate.
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