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| - Formerly King and Mane, this restaurant (run by the same folk as at Lombardino's) ditched their former Tex-Mex tapas/small plates menu and name and rebranded themselves as The Tipsy Cow with an emphasis on Wisconsin comfort food and craft beer. The interior has been updated a bit too, and it's hard to miss the Holstein-esque paint job at the front door on the corner.
Their menu is an 8.5 by 11 page with food on one side and drinks on the other.
As I mentioned, the food portion is Wisconsin comfort food.
Appetizers/Sides consist of things like cheese curds, cheese sticks, pretzels, Spotted Cow battered onion rings, all sorts of fries (blue cheese & bacon, truffle, chili cheese, and beer battered).
They have a couple options of soup and salad, and the entrees are all sandwiches of some kind, like burgers, sausages, turkey, grilled cheese, chicken, BLT, with the exception of a Friday fish fry.
There's also a few dessert choices.
The Tipsy Cow's menu puts some emphasis on local and Wisconsin-based ingredients, which I always consider a good thing. Regardless of where I'm eating, the more local and fresh you can get the ingredients, the better.
The flip side of the menu is devoted to drinks, with craft/micro brews taking center stage. Lots of locals like Ale Asylum, Lake Louie, New Glarus, Furthermore, Potosi and Oskar Blues, but also a decent selection of other U.S. beers. There's also macros, imports, mixed drinks and wine. They seem to have daily tap specials on the beer.
Stopped by around 2pm on a Thursday. Not very busy at all, so I grabbed a table overlooking King St. Looked like a decent selection of 6-8 taps, and Lake Louie's Warped Speed was on special for $3.50 a pint. Wish I could have taken advantage of it. Since it was kind of dead, service wasn't an issue at all.
I ordered a water, the Kielbasa sandwich, and a small order of the beer battered french fries.
The Kielbasa was Usinger's on a Clasen's sausage roll, with a whole grain mustard and bavarian sauerkraut. Great synergy between the different flavors and textures, and the roll was a perfect match for the fillings. As someone who cooks similarly on a regular basis, it was nice to find an alternative if I don't feel like cooking =)
The beer-battered fries' batter was very good as well, and the fries were cooked right on target. I should have asked if they were using a Spotted Cow batter like they do for their onion rings.
Portions were good too, I still had a bit left on my plate. Not bad for a $10 meal. The typical American-sized potions are way too big for me, so this was a nice change from meals where I sometimes leave more than half of it for a to-go box.
With the popularity of the Old Fashioned nearby, I can see this place taking a similar route, as they share many of the same qualities. We'll see if the service can keep up when it gets busy, but as this is a rebranding and not an entirely new restaurant I would assume that all the staff would need to do would be to adjust to the new menu.
5 stars for quality flavor of food, beer selection, price, and service. Your mileage may vary on the service aspect though, as it wasn't busy at all when I was there.
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