Best Old-World Restaurant in Milwaukee · Milwaukee, WI
Three Brothers has served Serbian home cooking from a former Schlitz tavern in Milwaukee's Bay View since 1954. The Radicevic family plates burek, chicken paprikash, and goulash in a warm, old-world room that feels frozen in amber — cash or check only, reservations wise.
A James Beard America's Classic, Three Brothers is a genuinely singular Milwaukee institution: three generations of the same family cooking the food of the old country, unchanged and unhurried.
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The Radicevich family has served Serbian classics in a historic Schlitz tavern since 1954, earning national recognition for keeping it exactly as it was.
Yes — Three Brothers is the 2025 Centurion Award winner for Best Old-World Restaurant in Milwaukee, a verified, criteria-based award. Named best old-world restaurant in Milwaukee for 2025 for seven decades of burek and hospitality in a preserved Schlitz corner tavern.
Three Brothers is in Milwaukee, WI.
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