Marquette Gyros

[JuniorCardigan]

Can't be easy to keep the lights on when your market is give May to August and you're busiest time of the day is after 11P.

The place was also pretty much never open at all during the week this school year. I never understood why; I'm sure a bunch of people would eat there when they aren't inebriated.

[keefe]

Sad to hear of the closing. Many of nights spent there and my kids at MU have spent many there as well. Need to get there before they close.

Goose makes one last pilgrimage to the Mecca of Marquette Late Night Middle Eastern Dining

[Goose]

Keefe

Counting the days to get home to enjoy one last stop the joint with my kids. My youngest son is staying on campus this summer and getting share while the old man works.

[real chili 83]

Curious if anyone remembers when MG opened.  I don't recall it open during my day. 

For a gyro, we used to have to go to either the Circle, or schlep it down Wisconsin avenue to a place by Grand avenue.  The place on Wisconsin ave served monster portions.  Good stuff.

[LloydMooresLegs]

The Lucci's special was awesome.   Find 3 friends, chip in $2.50 each, get that pizza....and it was a good pizza.   What was the name of the pizza place that had the pizza eating challenge?   Something like if 2 people could finish an 18" x 36" pizza in an hour, it was free.    Near 27th and Wisconsin, IIRC.   

That location made delivery key.  I think the Marquette special was $6.99 or $7.99 for a 16" sausage, mushroom and onion pizza, "pizza rolls" (seasoned puffed dough) and a liter of pepsi.  And you could pay with a check, which was key after my last crumpled up dollar was in the hands of a bartender at the establishment of the evening.  I don't remember the pizza challenge--how did I miss that???

[jsglow]

This is an internet message board... If you say there is backstory, you must share!!

Sorry Bleu, don't know what it is specifically.  Just that MU seemingly has a role in this.  Again, it can't be the 'you're serving underage kids and we've had this chat before' issue.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Curious if anyone remembers when MG opened.  I don't recall it open during my day. 

For a gyro, we used to have to go to either the Circle, or schlep it down Wisconsin avenue to a place by Grand avenue.  The place on Wisconsin ave served monster portions.  Good stuff.

Chili,
Somewhere between 1987 - 1991.  It wasn't there when I started Marquette, but MG was there when I finished.

[swoopem]

Sorry Bleu, don't know what it is specifically.  Just that MU seemingly has a role in this.  Again, it can't be the 'you're serving underage kids and we've had this chat before' issue.

I'm pretty sure Angelo's owned Gyro's so maybe when MU bought Blows they took over Gyro's as well, and of coarse MU would want to ruin a good thing. The food options on campus dwindle by the day.

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I'm pretty sure Angelo's owned Gyro's so maybe when MU bought Blows they took over Gyro's as well, and of coarse MU would want to ruin a good thing. The food options on campus dwindle by the day.

MU had Gyro's before Blows.

[Galway Eagle]

I kinda think that MU figures that because they lose money on the Annex, if they close every other food option that drunk people love they might actually make some money on the Annex.  Of course they ignore the fact that the food sucks, and the hours are crappy.  I've been theorizing this since they closed Hags and Blows after my Freshman year.  

[ZiggysFryBoy]

2 things:

1. my longest college "relationship" began at Gyros, no joke.
2. Guy from my dorm worked there freshman year. Kind of a scummy guy, but he was nice to us. Paid 100% under the table, and he told me all employees were paid that way.

So you are the little guy that worked there and made out with his nasty red headed girl sitting on the counter.

[Chili]

So you are the little guy that worked there and made out with his nasty red headed girl sitting on the counter.

Ahh good ole Christos.

[Jay Bee]

2 things:

1. my longest college "relationship" began at Gyros, no joke.
2. Guy from my dorm worked there freshman year. Kind of a scummy guy, but he was nice to us. Paid 100% under the table, and he told me all employees were paid that way.

Are 1 & 2 related? U dated a dude from Gyros?

[Coleman]

Chili,
Somewhere between 1987 - 1991.  It wasn't there when I started Marquette, but MG was there when I finished.

Those 4 years really are a blur, aren't they?

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Those 4 years really are a blur, aren't they?

That's about right.  Weren't they for everyone?

[madtownwarrior]

as much as I loved Marquette Gyros and Real Chili - nothing beat late night filler of  "Guliano's (2 slices & a drink) for like $2.50"

[keefe]

Curious if anyone remembers when MG opened.  I don't recall it open during my day. 

For a gyro, we used to have to go to either the Circle, or schlep it down Wisconsin avenue to a place by Grand avenue.  The place on Wisconsin ave served monster portions.  Good stuff.

A gyro place opened up on Wells in 79. The food was great but the shop was never crowded. I knew gyros from the doner kebab trucks that were popular in DC so I went to this place often. The owner was a great Lebanese guy but it was clear he wasn't making it. He moved to the east side near the Oriental Theater and did a booming business so it was more a matter of the Marquette crowd not being ready for 'exotic' fare.

Back then late night chow was limited to Angelo's, Real Chili, Wales, and Geo Webb so losing the gyro place was a 20% reduction in available gut fill. If one started drinking earlier you could hit Cousins; Suburpia had closed by then.     

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

as much as I loved Marquette Gyros and Real Chili - nothing beat late night filler of  "Guliano's (2 slices & a drink) for like $2.50"

+1

[LloydMooresLegs]

A gyro place opened up on Wells in 79. The food was great but the shop was never crowded. I knew gyros from the doner kebab trucks that were popular in DC so I went to this place often. The owner was a great Lebanese guy but it was clear he wasn't making it. He moved to the east side near the Oriental Theater and did a booming business so it was more a matter of the Marquette crowd not being ready for 'exotic' fare.

Back then late night chow was limited to Angelo's, Real Chili, Wales, and Geo Webb so losing the gyro place was a 20% reduction in available gut fill. If one started drinking earlier you could hit Cousins; Suburpia had closed by then.     

What about the Ham 'n Egger??  IIRC, you were a fan of Hegarty's, which would mean you must have stumbled to the Ham 'n Egger once or twice!  (And, in my years at least, Wales was not really a late not joint)

[swoopem]

A gyro place opened up on Wells in 79. The food was great but the shop was never crowded. I knew gyros from the doner kebab trucks that were popular in DC so I went to this place often. The owner was a great Lebanese guy but it was clear he wasn't making it. He moved to the east side near the Oriental Theater and did a booming business so it was more a matter of the Marquette crowd not being ready for 'exotic' fare.

Back then late night chow was limited to Angelo's, Real Chili, Wales, and Geo Webb so losing the gyro place was a 20% reduction in available gut fill. If one started drinking earlier you could hit Cousins; Suburpia had closed by then.     

Two things. First: doner kebab's are delicious. A bunch of my buddies and I went to Munich last year to visit my friend who was stationed in Amberg for Oktoberfest and we probably each had 2 of those every night. The scene at these doner stands was hilarious. We absolutely crushed those things.

Second: is the place that moved to the east side Oakland Gyros? They're really successful and IMO it's the best gyro in Milwaukee

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Hegarty's had excellent food 04-08.

[Spotcheck Billy]

Second: is the place that moved to the east side Oakland Gyros? They're really successful and IMO it's the best gyro in Milwaukee

Have you ever tried the Deluxe at the Gyro Stand on Oklahoma? grilled mushrooms, onions, tomato and green pepper

http://www.allmenus.com/wi/milwaukee/184933-the-gyros-stand/menu/

[swoopem]

Never heard of it. I don't live in Milwaukee so next time I'm up there I'll try to check it out. I love me a gyro

[keefe]

What about the Ham 'n Egger??  IIRC, you were a fan of Hegarty's, which would mean you must have stumbled to the Ham 'n Egger once or twice!  (And, in my years at least, Wales was not really a late not joint)

I was indeed a fan of Hegarty's and did some focused drinking inside that august hallway of a bar. Ham 'n Egger was just after my time. I believe it replaced a great lunch spot, Sy's Deli. Han n' Egger would have been great since it was right on the glide slope between Heg's and our house on 15th.

And I think you are right about Wales. It shuttered around midnight when it first opened so if you made an early night of it you could get some grease to counter the alcohol raging through your system. 

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Really disappointing. Much prefer Gyros over Chili and I would probably say on a nightly basis more people ate at Gyros than Chili now a days.