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| - Just have to give a shout out to our new favorite restaurant on the east side of Madison. I've eaten at the original Norske Nook in Osseo several times on my way between St. Paul and Madison and enjoyed it. I was delighted to hear they opened up a branch near Madison. We tried it out tonight and the food was delicious. My husband had the hot turkey commercial and I tried the salmon lefse wrap. I chose the roasted pepper soup for my side and upgraded the coleslaw to fruit. The soup was full of ground beef and rice and would have made a satisfying meal in itself in a larger portion. I eat a lot of salmon for health reasons, so when I say it's some of the tastiest I've eaten in quite a while, you know it's out of the ordinary. I had to finish my meal with a piece of homemade pie because it's what they're famous for, but how to choose? When I saw that they had sour cream pies in a variety of flavors, I knew I had to try one. I enjoy sour cream raisin pie - except for the raisins - and I've often wished someone would make another version. Their strawberry sour cream pie, made with fresh, local strawberries, is scrumptious. The sour cream gives it a slight tang and the strawberries give it a pretty pink color.
The one thing I wish they would improve is processing people coming in or paying on the way out at the front. There is only one cash register and when we arrived on a Sun. evening, the person running it was trying to take to-go orders, take money from customers who were done eating and greet new customers like us. On the way out, we had to wait quite a while for her to handle some special request that I think was a to-go order before someone realized I was there to pay our bill. The manager was cool about processing the Yelp voucher we bought on my phone after we arrived, however. I think several of the staff were new and I suspect Sun. night is usually a slow time and therefore a good time to break in new employees, so I'm sure that will get better. We'll definitely be back on a Fri. or Sat. night to check it out soon.
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