Category: Restaurant
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Town House Cafe
Before we headed over to Chicago, we had a quick lunch in St. Charles. We wanted something relatively light so this cafe looked pretty good. The cafe is also associated with a bookstore (we didn’t have time to go in). Andrea ordered the Ham & Cheese Melt and I ordered the asparagus quiche and cream…
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Rookies All American Bar & Grill
We were helping out Kristine by picking up Heidi from her IMSA class (focused on Code Breaking) and then taking her to lunch which we were very happy to do. Kristine suggested Rookies that was a place nearby that Heidi liked. It’s a typical bar and grill, but is attached to the Fox Valley Ice…
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Butterbird
We headed over near Camp Randall Stadium where we would be attending the Coldplay concert. We had some time to kill beforehand so ended up going to Butterbird for an early dinner. With all of the people there for the concert and it being a Saturday evening every dining place was very busy including here.…
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Tornado Steak House
I was interested in trying a Wisconsin supper club, which was a perfect venue for Andrea’s reuniting with a couple of her high school friends, Laurie, Jean, and Jean’s daughter Chloe. We ended up picking Tornado Steak House which proved to be quite popular, esp. on a Friday evening and given that this was located…
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Fairchild
Our financial advisors are based in Madison so while we were here they offered to take us out to dinner. They know what foodies we are so they selected Fairchild which they was a trendy restaurant. It was located on Monroe St., not too far from Camp Randall Stadium where we would be attending the…
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Settle Down Tavern
We were having lunch with Anna, one of Andrea’s college friends, and as a suprise, her sone Liam joined us. We picked Settle Down Tavern for lunch which was just off the capitol square and also just a few blocks from our hotel. We of course had to get the Cheese Puppies which were cornmeal…
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L’Etoile
I was interested in going to this restaurant because when I was researching restaurants in Madison, this was basically described as the Chez Panisse of Madison. The restaurant was originally opened in 1976 (just 5 years after Chez Panisse) which is 49 years ago (or as Andrea says “it’s been open forever!”). I was looking…
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Wakuriya
This wasn’t really on my radar since we primarily eat in the city, but it was mentioned a couple times on the Fine Dining discord group, so I decided to give it a try. The first challenge is getting a reservation. You basically have to leave a message and wait for a call back to…
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Dragon Beaux
Our neighbor invited us to go here with his family so I made a reservation for all of us. We had a small frenzy of ordering at the start, which always seems to happen anytime I’ve been here. You’d think we could just order something to start and then order more as we need. First…
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Tadich Grill
Work lunch meeting with Peter and team from one of our vendors. I gave him a few suggestions on restaurants and we picked Tadich Grill which is the oldest restaurant in California at 176 years old! I haven’t eaten here since I moved to SF in the 90s and no one else at our lunch…