Swingin' Door Exchange • 1933

Just fifteen days after Prohibition ended, the Exchange Tavern threw open its doors in Milwaukee's Grain Exchange Building with a grand opening party on April 22, 1933. The saloon has poured drinks in the same wood-paneled room ever since, now serving homemade comfort food and its legendary Friday fish fry beneath vintage stained glass to brokers, tourists, and regulars who gather at the bar like they have for nearly a century. Whether you order the cornflake-crusted chicken tenders or settle in with ribs and an Old Fashioned, the feeling is unmistakable: this is a place where Milwaukee comes to drink.