Steve's Greenhouse Grill
Farm-to-Flame · Est. 2009
Wauwatosa · Wisconsin
Wauwatosa · Est. 2009
A chef-driven farm-to-table American grill, where the herbs, microgreens and heirloom vegetables on your plate were cut that morning from the four acres of greenhouse attached to the kitchen.
From Soil to Plate
Every morning, our six full-time farmers walk the four-acre range with harvest crates. By nine o'clock the kitchen is receiving basil still warm from the glass, microgreens cut to order, and tomatoes picked at the moment the vine lets go.
By service, the oak-and-fruitwood hearth is rolling at temperature. The fourteen cooks on the line build each plate against whatever walked in that morning — there is no printed prep list, only a walk through the greenhouse.
What reaches you has traveled forty feet and a few hours, not two thousand miles and four days. You taste the difference the way you taste the season.
The Greenhouse, In Fact
Ours is the only restaurant in the region whose menu is shaped, every fourteen days, by what is ready to harvest behind the building. Sixty-eight percent of every ingredient on the plate comes from this site — the rest is sourced within fifty miles, almost all from partners we know by name.
The Chef
Steve Marrone opened this restaurant in 2009 on a former nursery, after twenty-two years on the line and a long stretch in the kitchen of James Beard Award winner Charlie Trotter. He still writes the menu by walking the greenhouse at sunrise.
Trotter taught me that a kitchen's discipline shows up on the plate as generosity. Twenty-two years later I still cook the way he made me cook for him — and the greenhouse out back is the best produce purveyor I never had to negotiate with.
Chef Steve Marrone Executive Chef & Founder · Trained under Charlie Trotter
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Find Us
4227 Greenway Boulevard
+1 (414) 555-0188
[email protected]
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Main dining room holds one hundred and forty guests. The chef's counter is twenty-four. For groups larger than eight, or for the private cellar, please use the form below.
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