About Dave & Melanie
Dave and Melanie met in 1993 at a restaurant where Melanie was Dave’s waitress and it was love at first sight! Within 1½ years they were married and started a family.Six years later, the owner of the restaurant where they met offered to sell the couple another business that he owned. It was one of Milwaukee’s original Schlitz taverns at 1900 W. St. Paul Ave, nestled in Milwaukee’s historic Menomonee Valley. We now call it Sobelman’s Pub & Grill.With high school educations and no culinary skills, Dave and Melanie were determined to make the most of a pub-and-grill cuisine (mainly burgers), offering the cleanest environment, friendliest service and most pleasant, cozy atmosphere possible. The result has certainly taken the pub-and-grill experience up a notch!
"It all started with a few pickled garnishes to support our neighbor, Bay View Packing, and the next thing I knew, I was putting entire fried chickens in my Bloody Marys. A full-out garnish war in Milwaukee has ensued.” - Dave Sobelman
A staple morning cocktail for many Wisconsin bars, the Sobelman's Bloody Mary is made with our zesty, house-made Bloody Mary mix. Topped with signature garnishes, every Bloody Mary comes with a colby-jack cheese, a pickled Polish sausage, a pickled mushroom, a pickled Brussels sprout, an asparagus, a celery stalk, a green onion, and on another toothpick a shrimp, a lemon wedge, and a grape tomato.
But one day, Dave stuck a cheeseburger on a skewer in a Bloody Mary and wrote on a Facebook post: "Am I going too far?" Before you knew it, he had hundreds of comments.. Everyone loved it. It seemed a little crazy to Dave, but when he got home that night he sat down and looked at Melanie before saying, "Wow, I think we're on to something."
The story of the Milwaukee Bloody Mary garnish wars began, in a natural progression of things. Next came the bacon-wrapped jalapeno cheese-balls, known as the Baconado Bloody Mary. And so on and so forth.
THE ORIGINAL SOBELMANS ON ST. PAUL
Address:
1900 W St Paul Ave Milwaukee, WI 53233
Hours:
Mon - Thurs: 11 am - 10 pm*
Fri: 11 am - 11 pm*
Sat: 10 am - 11 pm*
Sun: 10 am - 9 pm
*Closing hours are flexible, please call (414) 931-1919 to check times.
Phone:
(414) 931-1919
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