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Dinner downstairs, the bus at the door
A craft cocktail pub on Old World Third Street, steps from Fiserv Forum, the Baird Center and the Theater District.
Cocktails downstairs, a private room upstairs
Oak Barrel is the group's craft cocktail pub at 1033 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The second floor is a private event room that seats 30 to 180, and it is where a lot of rehearsal dinners happen the night before a wedding. It also runs a free courtesy shuttle to Brewers home games for its own guests.
The five 3rd Street Retreat apartments are upstairs, so a wedding party can sleep above the rehearsal dinner and take the bus from the front door.
- Address: 1033 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Milwaukee
- Phone: (414) 897-8320
- Hours: Monday to Wednesday 4 pm to 10 pm, Thursday 4 pm to 11 pm, Friday 11 am to 1 am, Saturday 10 am to 1 am, Sunday 10 am to 10 pm
- Website: oakbarrelmilwaukee.com
With the bus
Start a bachelorette or a birthday at Oak Barrel and let the bus take the group from there, or book the bus to bring wedding guests from their hotel to the rehearsal dinner and back. Pickup at the door is part of the plan, not an extra.
Holding a company party or a holiday party upstairs? Add guest shuttles from the office or the hotel, and book the room and the bus together for less. See the packages.
Oak Barrel's own hours, menus and table bookings live on its website. For the private room upstairs, ask Alexa; she books the room, the bus and the rest of the weekend together.
Check the pub's own site before a late pickup: hours change on event nights at Fiserv Forum and the Baird Center.
Dinner at Oak Barrel, then the bus home
Send Alexa the date and the headcount.