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| - If you've eaten dinner at a number of decent restaurants in Madison you will be disappointed at Oliver's.
If your meat is good the portions will be too small. If you order something that sounds delicious they will have run out of it. If you order a drink it will take longer than you expect. If your server strikes up a conversation with you it will be a little weird. If you want your date's attention you won't get it because the room is too loud. Not sure what exactly it will be in your case, but something will definitely go wrong.
My hot coffee was cool, my beer glass was dirty, my carrot tasted freezer-burned, the beer I ordered first (from the chalkboard list, not the printed list) was gone (and I was simply served a different beer at first...seemed like an honest mistake though), the table we were offered first was the worst of the two available, my boring 38 dollar steak was a few strips that could fit in my palm and one of them was all gristle. A few stale, crispy onion shavings didn't help.
My wife had pretty good salmon, and a nicely roasted, though completely unadorned, piece of broccoli. Her (yummy) beet salad had so few beets that I thought she got served the wrong thing.
We felt like the meal should have been priced around $60 or $70, but it was $110 (there are many better restaurants at that price).
Not a horrible place. Just not good enough for dinner. Sounds like the brunch is better(?).
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