Italian restaurant ‘Il Cervo’ to open on high flooring of The Commerce resort

Madison-based Meals Battle Restaurant Group this week unveiled plans for its first Milwaukee restaurant idea, Il Cervo, an Italian restaurant opening in spring 2023 on the ninth flooring of The Commerce resort in downtown Milwaukee’s Deer District.

Aptly named after the Italian phrase for “deer,” Il Cervo will serve traditional and unique interpretations of conventional Italian meals and drinks, the group mentioned. Its menu will embody Florentine-style, dry-aged steak, butter-poached lobster, grilled entire fish, hand-rolled pasta, fresh-made ricotta and mozzarella, and hand-stretched sourdough pizza ready in a stone fireplace pizza oven.

The partnership between Meals Battle and The Commerce builders, Middleton-based NCG Hospitality and the Milwaukee Bucks, was marked Monday at a media occasion the place the 4,500-pound pizza oven was hoisted as much as the top-floor restaurant area.

The nine-story resort is at the moment below development on the nook of Juneau and Vel R. Phillips avenues, immediately north of Fiserv Discussion board, and is on observe for a spring 2023 completion. Its title is an homage to the tradespeople who constructed town of Milwaukee.

“With The Commerce Resort, our focus is so as to add to the material of downtown Milwaukee, all whereas celebrating the wealthy historical past of tradespeople who constructed this metropolis,” mentioned Andy Inman, chief improvement officer of NCG Hospitality. “We have fun how issues are made, together with meals and craft beverage choices.”

Il Cervo’s top-floor eating area will function an open kitchen with a bar, eating room, lounge, out of doors terrace and a non-public indoor-outdoor patio with views of the downtown skyline.

“Our commerce is cooking, and each dish we serve at Il Cervo will likely be made with ability and care,” mentioned Caitlin Suemnicht, chief govt officer of Meals Battle Restaurant Group, which owns and operates a portfolio of 18 restaurant places throughout the larger Madison space.

She mentioned getting into the Milwaukee market was an “simple resolution” with NCG Hospitality as its companion.

“Each of our corporations share a ardour for hospitality, and for offering distinctive experiences to our visitors, staff and the larger neighborhood,” Suemnicht added.

Il Cervo is one in all two eating places deliberate at The Commerce. The opposite is a signature idea that may occupy an area on the southeast nook of the bottom flooring.

As well as, the 205-room Marriott Autograph Assortment resort can have a two-story VIP suite with its personal non-public entry, 9,000 sq. ft of indoor and out of doors assembly and occasion area, and ground-floor retail area.