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| - Field Table strikes me as a restaurant that is just trying too hard on the wrong things. They clearly want to offer unique food choices, but they seem to have forgotten that unique isn't always a positive. The dinner menu is small, which was necessary because deciphering each option required reading each one at least 5 or 6 times. I was with a large group and all around me were questions of 'what is that?' 'what do you think this is?' or 'what do you think word means?'. It's as though their goal is to humble the diner into believing their food vocabulary is so above-standard that it means it must taste amazing. If only that had actually been true...
It started out reasonably well. Their bread was delicious - overpriced, but delicious. And their specialty cocktails were all very good (though again, quite expensive). We then proceeded to wait...and wait...and wait...and wait...our server actually apologized twice and assured us food was on its way. I got the sense our server was well versed in such apologies and just assumed they were a regular part of her job. We were not in a hurry and had plenty to talk about so it was fine, but definitely never go here in a rush.
Perhaps the long wait time is designed to make us all more hungry and appreciative! When the food did start coming out, it took many more minutes before everyone had their dishes. Random servers would come out with two dishes at a time and walk around the table shouting dish names until someone raised their hand...not exactly great service for such a pricey place. We did have about a dozen people but we were not playing musical chairs in our long wait - it shouldn't have been that hard.
Presentation was good - the food all looked very nice. It had been so long and the menu was so confusing that some of us had forgotten what we'd ordered by then! We had a variety of dishes - burgers were generally given thumbs up (though one was reportedly over-cooked), salads were also given thumbs up (though the dishes were about 3x the size they needed to be which made for a crowded table and made them look smaller than they were). The salmon received great accolades for its taste but after finishing it, that diner said simply 'I'm still really hungry - that was the tiniest dinner ever'. The chicken received an 'it's ok' response. And the risotto was a solid thumbs down. The food is generally pretentious - they try very hard to mix all sorts of flavors that perhaps are not normally mixed for good reason.
Service continued to be slow through plate clearing, bill running, etc. though the server we had was polite and kind. Atmosphere was fine but nothing to write home about. All in all, I probably won't be going back - Madison has much better choices, particularly for such a high price range. I am a fan of the local food movement/farm to table type of place but this one misses the mark.
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