Park Avenue Pizza Company Pub & Restaurant

My sister and I have been coming here for years - it is the BEST fish fry you will find - we have tried many fine dining restaurants and other pubs but always end of here.  The breading is light and the fish is plentiful.  We always sit in the bar area to eat.

They have fish on Wednesdays also which is usually not as busy.

Well, the bar tender was friendly at least.

A regular 1/2 pepperoni 1/2 sausage pizza: Dry, overwhelming amount of cheese, decent tasting sauce but too little of it, flaky dry crust. $ 15.00 for a large.
Not impressed with this selection, won't be back.

Came out to Park Ave Pizza expecting to be underwhelmed.  We're trying hard to make it into the top 20 to qualify for Team Trivia of WI's championship tournament in a few weeks, so we go to any and all locations we can.  Saturdays we usually hit The Duplex on Jefferson downtown, but they were closed (most likely because of St. Patty's Day).  So we had no other choice for trivia but Park Ave Pizza.

Man, was I wrong about this place!  We figured it would be dead, but it was hopping packed with reservations for dinner.  We only partook at the bar, where we also sat.  It was crowded enough that if we hadn't sat at the bar, we'd have been seated too far away to hear the trivia announcer.

Parking was a bit of a pain - the lot was pretty full and the street parking says 1 hour only (no fine print, and trivia runs 2 hours).  We managed, though.

The bartender, a young guy whose name escapes me, was awesome.  He unofficially joined our team and made small talk with us even though he was busier than a 1-armed paper hanger the whole night.  He still managed to throw in a good joke and keep our drinks flowing.  I was amazed that they had Lindemanns' Lambic Kriek and Framboise here, which I'd been DYING to try.  Everybody was well lubricated, to say the least!

Everyone else tried various drinks, and I think the prices were a smidge on the high side ($6-$7 for a bottled beer, which I sort of expect for Lambic but not for Killian's Irish Red).  Still, for the service and the selection it was worth it.  Their beer case was pretty extensive and they have Spotted Cow, Guiness, Blue Moon, and the other usual suspects on tap.

If we end up going back out there, I'd be up to try their pizza!