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| - If The Wise keeps Drag Queen Bingo going, I'll be a monthly customer!
The Wise is located in the lobby of HotelRED and is a cute space with open shelving, a nice bar, and plenty of windows looking out onto Regent Street and their outdoor patio. When the wise is full for an event, seating spills out into the lobby where there are some comfy couch and chair combinations and a fireplace.
I've taken advantage of their $5 happy hour menu and had a well-poured whiskey seven, some tasty fried pickles, and loaded fries that are definitely terrible for you but are worth the splurge. I've heard great things from other people in my party about the fish tacos and the pulled pork sliders.
On one visit to The Wise I wasn't feeling so hot so I got a can of ginger beer - $2.11 with tax. I tried to pay with a five and the correct coinage, but was told "[they] don't do change." My server brought me back $3 so I came out ahead, but I found that strange.
Speaking of servers, they are hit or miss. I've had one that looked perturbed with every order and kept leaving the table after only taking one or two people's order of our eight-person group to one of the better servers I've had in Madison who was super proactive about making sure everyone had what they needed and checking in on food orders frequently (the kitchen was slammed with over a hundred people at once, not the norm for a hotel restaurant).
The apps I've tried have been good enough to intrigue me to come back to try the regular menu, and as I mentioned at the top, if they keep Drag Queen Bingo on the calendar I'll be a regular!
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