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| - For a place with "Brats" in the name, you'd expect a better Brat. I don't claim to be any 'Brat Expert,' but I do know that I've had better Brats in my life than at State Street Brats. I had the 'Red Brat' I believe, and received a glorified hot dog... thus making the 'Double Red Brat' on the menu the only way to go if you really want enough Brat.
Beyond the Brats, the double order of wings is the only way to go due to the poor quality and lack of meat on them. You end up leaving about half the basket as it is, and with a price tag of $8 for the double basket, I'd like to offer to pay more for better wings. (To date, the best wings I've had in Madison were at The Great Dane).
It fulfills its need as a sports bar with flat screens located in enough places where you can basically always see what's going on. Some were on standard channels and others on HD, and therefore there was a lag between some of the screens for the NFL playoff game I was watching... a minor detail, but it's these types of things that separate the men from the boys in sports bars.
Lastly, it was Saturday night with back-to-back NFL playoff games, and the place was absolutely dead at 7:30-8:30ish. Around 9pm the place began to start to pickup, and I received word that the place begins to fill up more in the 10pm+ range. Alas, it's not so much a sports bar, but a college bar with some TVs.
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