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| - Friday night at Madison's hottest new restaurant, and let me tell you like it was. First, it was packed, and VERY VERY noisy, I had to shout to talk to my table mates. Second, we arrived at 6:30, can't recall when our drinks arrived (7PM?) but our first plates ($3 for 6 SMALL pieces of bread) arrived at 7:20. The second round of plates arrived at 7:40. Grits and an egg, which was good but strange. The bread was long gone, so there I am eating just grits, and an egg. The third round arrived at 8 PM. I got the mac & cheese, which was cold; not lukewarm, COLD. I got heartburn --- probably from drinking beer on an empty stomach and the weird parings becasue who eats grits and an egg on a Friday night and 20 minutes later cold mac & cheese? Also got a sore throat from shouting and my clothes smelled like I had been in a cheap diner. (But of course this place is pretty expensive, given the small portions.) Oh, the wait staff -- there were four or five different people throughout the evening taking our order, bringing food and drinks clearing stuff away -- who is our server? Who's service do we base our tip on? They got orders mixed up, who get's what again now? I found it discombobulating. Bottom line, I did not enjoy the expereince at all.
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