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| - So my sister and I were traveling through Madison and we starving. We found Alchemy, and I figured it was a type of place we'd both maybe like - we did ...
Overall Pros ... unpretentious place, good food, reasonable prices, nice menu, reasonable beer prices.
Overall Cons ... Didn't see any signage about the lack of credit card acceptance. It's OK that they are a cash place, but make it obvious on the menus. Yes, that cash dispensing machine is there, but what if you only have a credit card and you don't ever use it for cash and don't know your pass code, of even if you have a pass code? Service was good, but we were not asked if we wanted a second round of drinks (we did) and we were not offered more water (which I needed). Also the waitress we had was attentive but since we were outside and she was attending to patrons both inside and out, we waited a rather long time for her to come and accept our payment - I finally walked inside and tried to pay by credit card and learned it was cash only.
So my sister had the basmati rice with vegetable curry $10, and she loved it - especially the yogurt sauce. Washed it down with a pale ale from Longmont, CO and it was only $4 - which was a nice surprise. In the Chicago area we'd pay $6 for the same glasses of beer on tap.
I had the hanger steak on fries with zucchini and blue cheese. The portions were just right I thought, and the steak was prepared well, but the fries were not fries about $14. They were disc-like in shape, over cooked by a lot, hard, greasy, no flavor and very disappointing. I had a non alcoholic beer and at $3.50 it was perfect for me.
I would return if I come back to Madison. There are other restaurants in the vacinity I'd like to try too, but I would come back to Alchemy first - with cash next time, and I would bypass the 'fries'. .
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