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Borland's Tavern - Belleville - Friday Night Fish Fry
This entry was posted on 8/22/2008 5:41 PM and is filed under Taverns Wisconsin, Friday Night Fish Fry.
Heide and I headed back to our old stomping grounds southwest of Madison, Wisconsin to hunt down a fish fry we had tried at least 10 years ago. For those readers that do not know, we had lived in the New Glarus area of Green County for almost 10 years back a few years ago. We found the lights out at Borland's Tavern in Belleville at 4:45 p.m. I told Heide we should wait a couple minutes. Sure enough by the time I moved the car around the corner to park closer things were starting to gear up.
Borland's is a consummate south-central Wisconsin watering hole. In the bar area you will find a row of kitchen tables. They are the chromed-leg ones with the yellow enamel tops. I suspect a couple generations of card players have polished those table tops with their elbows on many a euchre night.
Through the bar to the back is the dining room. There is a small service bar back there to pay for your fish when all is said and done. The fish menu is short and to the point. You get several pieces of deep-fried Cod, French fries, and cole slaw. The fish is quite good. The slaw is finely diced and just creamy enough. You will find your tarter sauce in a squeeze bottle - hey, it is a tavern.
With a soda, tap beer, our dinners, and tip we got out of there for around 23 Bucks. Borland's is cool with Cool Dadio.
Find Borland's Tavern at 119 West Main Street, Belleville, Wisconsin. Call (608) 424 - 3013 for more details.
Wisconsin military service person of the week
Army Specialist Michelle Witmer, 20, from New Berlin, Wisconsin, died Friday, April 9, 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq. Her tour in Iraq was a few days from ending when she died. Her vehicle came under attack from enemy using a roadside bomb and small-arms fire in Baghdad. Witmer had been stationed in Baghdad since March 2003 with the 32nd Military Police Company of the Wisconsin National Guard. Michelle joined the National Guard in November 2002, going into the same military police unit her older sister Rachel, age 24, was in and who also was in Iraq. Charity Witmer, Michelle's twin sister, was a medic with Company B of the Wisconsin Guard's 118th Medical Battalion, and was likewise stationed in Iraq. According the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Michelle and Rachel helped train Iraqi police. Michelle's job was during the night shift at the local police station. The Journal Sentinel went on to mention the Witmer children were home-schooled at the k-thru-12 level and Michelle went on to attend the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee before being sent to Iraq. At the time of her death, Michelle Witmer was survived by her two brothers Timothy, 22, Mark, 18, her sisters Rachel, 24, and Charity, 20, and her parents John and Lori Witmer. Michelle was the 16th Wisconsin military service person to be killed in Iraq since the war began in March 2003.
As of this blog entry's posting date:
86,661 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
8,530 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,147 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
576 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
314 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
360 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
30,561 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
2,379 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
91 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
11 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
130 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
15 journalists (various nationalities) have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
Soldier of the week, military casualty, and journalist casualty information sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; cnn.com; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; washingtonpost.com; thehighground.org; Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs; iraqbodycount.org; and, icasualties.org.
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