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| - It feels like this place, locally owned and run, is just hell-bent on serving up dishes that aren't what people think they're ordering...
For example: grilled cheese and soup 'special' (though it seems more of an 'everyday'), neither involves grilling, actual cheese, or (even, unfortunately) soup.
My grilled cheese consisted of fairly fresh, thick-sliced bread, coated in a yellowish fluid (wasn't real butter--or even margarine, as it didn't crisp, not even a little) seasoned with garlic and hard cheese shavings (which would have been awesome & creative & tasty, if they'd just have waited until it toasted) and an unholy amount of melted 'cheese food' in the middle, still in recognizable slices. It was definitely warmish, but not even remotely the toasty real dairy goodness implied by the phrase "grilled cheese" Wasn't grilled. Wasn't cheese. At best, was the equivalent of a college kid's drunken attempt at microwaving freezer-case garlic toast & 3 slices of processed cheese food. Yum???
'Soup' was a solid at room temperature. I don't even want to know what makes that happen. I could have used it as spackle / wall compound.
(Insert sad face)
Folks mentioning that they serve one weird reuben have lost the plot: lettuce, onion, tomato don't add to a well-made reuben. They distract from something inadequate. And in this case, they hide that the swiss isn't, there's (again) no grilling, and the dressing should go in the sauerkraut, not glopping up the bread.
Prices were fine, though I wish I'd known I was going to wind up with sacks of plain Lays. Wasn't asked by the counter person - who was also not particularly helpful about the menu, aside from the few options written on the chalk board behind her - about sides. Ugh. Who wants plain lays? I'd rather pay an upcharge and get a palatable side that I can enjoy. But, apparently, who cares? Not them!
Well, that's awesome.
Anyway - it's not terrible, but there are better local options in Madison, for sure.
Location is pretty standard small town eatery. Nothing particularly notable.
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