Chefs and Restaurants

How Ardent's Justin Carlisle Is Leaving His Mark on Milwaukee

 

Chef to Watch (and September/October issue cover boy) Justin Carlisle eyed an old Turkish coffee shop in his Milwaukee, Wis., neighborhood for years, only dreaming it would one day be the site of his own hidden-gem restaurant. There was no hood or gas in the garden-level, 900-square-foot space, but once it became available, he jumped on it, and opened Ardent...