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| - I'd like to warn others to stay away from King and Mane. It will ease the sting of having wasted my time and money and taste buds there myself. It's overpriced bar-quality food at best, along with very lackluster service.
Can you imagine going to a restaurant and putting your entree orders in, only to be told about 35 minutes later that they are out of your entree for the night? It' can happen to you if you go to "King and Mane."
The way to deal with this is to NOT order a different entree when they ask what else you'd like instead - if they can't get it together to notify you, if not WHEN you place the order, then within 10 minutes thereafter MAX that the kitchen is unable to fulfill this request - then they do NOT deserve any more of your business than what you have already had to give them just by being there and ordering what you have already reluctantly eaten.
We waited about an hour for our food, during which time no less than 3 different server changes were made on us mid-meal. We could never tell who was coming or going. When they did come to the table they failed to notice or address basic things like an empty beer bottle, and thus would have to be actively hailed down to request another drink. I don't normally drink the ice water served at restaurants but these are the sort of servers who would fail to ever refill your water glass.
They claim to be a gastro-cantina and that there is some sort of a Latin influence to the food, however it is just midwest bland bar food, with an inflated price. The only passable part of the meal was the Beet Salad with manchego and pistachios, however this came oddly accompanied with the only "Latin" thing the restaurant apparently offered (a pair of "soft tortillas" that were so dry and stale they could slice a jugular) Who is going to wrap this salad in these? Is the inclusion of the tortillas just there to justify the word "cantina?"
A side of broccoli was ordered that the menu describes as "sauteed broccoli" - one of the servers who took the order for this was specifically told by us that we do not like overcooked broccoli and she assured us that it would come out crisp and good. Sure enough, it was brought out (by a different server) as a disgustingly overcooked slop, but also drowning is a yellow puddle of cheap oil. It looked as if it had been boiled for an hour in water, drained, and then doused in a cheap corn oil from a huge tin can. Truly disgusting broccoli! Any chef knows how to do broccoli properly and any kitchen that sends obviously overcooked broccoli out to its customers is run by a poor chef, if he is even present. No one enjoys overcooked broccoli - it not like meats where there a range of acceptable doneness. In fact, if you are at a restaurant that has not yet proven itself to you to be good (EVEN if you have read a "good" review in Isthmus) and first order just a side of broccoli and (if you like) specify it to not be overcooked - and if they bring it out overcooked - refuse it and leave. The harder test is to not specify how it to be cooked - they should still bring it out NOT in an overcooked state - they should not have to be told this. The kitchen's missteps are only beginning there and you can get out without any investment this way. This should not be necessary but unfortunately in MADISON it is.
The Sea Scallops entree - which came out shortly after it was announced that the other requested entree was unavailable, leaving one person sitting eating an entree and the other unable to - was nothing special and was served only slightly above room temperature.
The "Duck Fat Potato Pancake" which one of the servers assured us would be good, was flavorless (I like to say "flavor-free") and to be honest seemed sodium-free.
The service from the three different young women was rushed, indifferent and included outright lies about the food, assuring us of things the kitchen could not or would not deliver on.
AVOID "King and Mane" (dumb name too) AT ALL COSTS or you will feel like banging your head on the loud approximately 2'x5' metal plate on the sidewalk next to King and Mane's outdoor seating that every passerby and the waitstaff clanks across if you are trying to eat outside.
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