Italian restaurant Il Cervo will be on Trade Hotel's rooftop in Fiserv Forum's Deer District

Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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A 4,300-pound pizza oven is raised nine stories Monday to the future restaurant Il Cervo (pronounced CHAIR-vo, meaning "the deer" in Italian), which will be at the top of the Trade Hotel in Fiserv Forum's Deer District.
A 4,300-pound pizza oven is raised nine stories Monday to the future restaurant Il Cervo (pronounced CHAIR-vo, meaning "the deer" in Italian), which will be at the top of the Trade Hotel in Fiserv Forum's Deer District.

The restaurant at the top of the Trade Hotel under construction in the Deer District, near Fiserv Forum, will be Italian themed.

A 4,300-pound pizza oven was hoisted nine stories Monday morning to the site of the future restaurant, which will be called Il Cervo (pronounced CHAIR-vo), meaning the deer in Italian.

Besides pizza made with sourdough, the restaurant's menu will include butter-poached lobster, grilled fish, dry-aged steaks served Florentine style, fresh cheeses made daily at Il Cervo, and handmade pasta and other Italian fare, spokespeople from the Milwaukee Bucks and restaurant said.

Careful, Bango. The Milwaukee Bucks mascot leans against a new 2-ton-plus pizza oven before it’s raised to the future ninth-floor restaurant, Il Cervo, at the coming Trade Hotel in the Deer District, near Fiserv Forum.
Careful, Bango. The Milwaukee Bucks mascot leans against a new 2-ton-plus pizza oven before it’s raised to the future ninth-floor restaurant, Il Cervo, at the coming Trade Hotel in the Deer District, near Fiserv Forum.

The Trade Hotel, a Marriott Autograph Collection hotel, and the restaurant are to open in spring. The hotel is across Juneau Avenue from the arena where the Milwaukee Bucks play.

Representatives of NCG Hospitality and Food Fight Restaurant Group, the groups behind the restaurant, attended the oven's hoisting. Madison-based Food Fight's restaurants include Monty's Blue Plate Diner, Johnny Delmonico's Steakhouse, Luigi's Pizza, Cento and Bar Corallini, NCG is an arm of the company that will operate the hotel.

The 4,300-pound pizza oven for the future Italian restaurant Il Cervo nears its destination Monday of the top floor of the nine-story Trade Hotel under construction at 420 W. Juneau Ave.
The 4,300-pound pizza oven for the future Italian restaurant Il Cervo nears its destination Monday of the top floor of the nine-story Trade Hotel under construction at 420 W. Juneau Ave.

Il Cervo is one of two restaurants planned for the hotel, according to previous reports. Il Cervo will have both indoor and outdoor areas for customers.

The other restaurant is to be a two-level restaurant and lounge anchoring the corner of West Juneau and North Phillips avenues. At Juneau and Fifth Street, the building is to have street-level retail space.

The Trade Hotel will have 207 rooms. The project site is one of the vacant lots that Milwaukee County gave to the Bucks organization as part of the public-private financing for Fiserv Forum.

Contact Carol at carol.deptolla@jrn.com or (414) 224-2841, or through the Journal Sentinel Food & Home page on Facebook. Follow her on Twitter at @mkediner or Instagram at @mke_diner.

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