If you're looking for a super fancy place, keep looking...this is your typical neighborhood tavern and it made me feel like I was back home in the Milwaukee area. The best burgers in Madison...hands down! Good fries and cheese curds too...they had a number of other dishes that sounded yummy too. Super friendly staff. We will definitely be back!

positive

Been here before and everything was so much worse this time. Last time we came as a party of 7 and tried everything off of the menu except two items. It was all exceptionally good. This time 9 out of our 12 dishes were over spiced (pepper), over seasoned (garlic) and over salted. No knives were given out. Desserts and unique cocktails taken off menu. Food took at least 15 minutes a plate to get to us which is atrocious in a tapas place with only 9 occupied tables. Waitress Galina rushed us through ordering and seemed annoyed we didn't know what we wanted immediately every time she came around. Didn't give us waters. No refills on the drinks we ordered either (which was horrible with over salted food). Gave us the bill without backstage pass pricing and no pen. Never got the pen to sign, or could pay with card, as she was too busy sitting with and flirting with these guys at another table to return to us. Waited 27 minutes for her and gave up and paid in cash because she never came. Seems like they can't do anything right here as we overheard the bartender apologize to other customers about some mishap. It's been over an hour and I'm burping salty garlic burps. Disgusting. Will not be returning, ever. It's incredibly clear now why this place is always empty. I doubt it will stay in business long. If you want good food, AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!!!

negative

I usually stay away from mcdonalds and when I do, I stay away from the fries and just get the big mac. Every mcdonalds is pretty consistant but when I ate here, the bread was hard, the burger was messy, and one of the worst big mac I've ate. It's right near my school so I go here but not very good.

negative

We ate here on Wednesday night and it was really really really good! I'm so glad we came here! For starters we had the crab cake and it was pretty big and very good! It was a very good appetizer. For entrees I had the veal shank and it was delicious. It was cooked perfectly. My boyfriend had the salmon and he liked it. I don't like salmon, but he said it was delicious. For sides we had the truffled mac and cheese and it was SO GOOD!!!!! OMG!!!!! We also got steamed asparagus and a side of Bearnaise sauce to dip it in. Super yum! For dessert we got the creme brulee and it was just okay. I would have given this place five stars but we ordered a bottle of wine with a 2008 vintage and they brought out a 2009 instead. When we called them out on it, they said they just got the shipment in that day and didn't have time reprint the menus. I don't believe them. Other than that, everything was great and I know that some people yelped badly about the waitstaff taking a long time, but when you go to a super fancy place it is standard for service to be slow so you have time to drink your wine and enjoy your food. This isn't "In-N-Out Burger" you know.
positive