With three closed restaurants (Monsoon, Mocean's, and Mo's Cucina) in their litany, the Mo's Restaurant Group has now decided to add a half-garlic, half-Gaelic spin to its Irish pub by commingling Italian and Irish menu items and moving former Moceans head chef Andy Stiyer to the helm.

Sounds to me like one of those Chinese/Mexican/pizza restaurants that cannot nail any particular cuisine so instead tries to do them all averagely. Not to take anything away from Stiyer, who I encountered at a Battle of the Chefs contest several years back when he proved himself to be quite talented, but I am not certain that a pasta-meets-corned-beef menu is something any professional chef really wants to take on.

The pub's food has never been quite up my alley to begin with, but does this now mean I can expect to see Milwaukee visitors confusedly drinking Guinness, watching a Packers game and eating pasta primavera? To me that may redefine culture shock.