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| - My thoughts on Mad City Frites are pretty similar to what Shruti W. said in her review. The layout is spacious, the ambience is nice, but the frites themselves are lacking. I also felt like they were too thick, and were way too soft than I wanted them to be. I kept hoping to get some crunch in a few of them, but it never happened. Also, while the sauce texture is there, the flavor is not whatsoever. My group ended up getting 4 sauces, and we could not tell the difference between any of them except for the honey mustard. Way too mild of flavor for a sauce that's really thick.
In addition, I feel like the pricing system here needs some improvement. There's two sizes: regular for $4.50, which comes with 1 sauce, and large for $5.50, which comes with two sauces. And then you can get another sauce for $1 (or 3 for $2.50). The large is likely going to be too much for one person to eat (I have a large appetite and finished a large, but my stomach didn't feel great in the end), but getting just 1 sauce is lame (especially with how flavorless they are). So you want to get at least 2. But you feel like you're getting ripped off if you just buy the1 sauce, because you should just get the large then. But if you get the large, then you're going to feel sick/bloated/greasy/fat after you eat it from eating too many fries. Overall, change the price of extra sauce to 50 cents, because 1) Other places don't charge nearly that much for more sauce (See below), and 2) It would give people incentive to actually get more sauces and not more starch.
And in case you're reading this review because you were searching for places with good fries, here are 3 places that do fries/frites in Madison way better than this place:
Jac's on Monroe Street: You can get a frites basket that has crispier frites, and is the size of MCF's large, for $5, and that comes with an aioli. If you add $1 (the price of 1 sauce at MCF), you get 3 extra sauces, all of which are very tasty. So you can spend $6 at Jac's or $7.50 at MCF for frites and 4 sauces. Easy call to me!
Tipsy Cow on the corner of King/Main: They have a good selection of specialty baskets of fries, ranging from $7-$9. So it's more expensive, but it's meant for sharing, and therefore you get more. Options includes buffalo blue cheese, truffle, carnitas, and many others.
DLUX on MLK Blvd: If you're on more a budget, you can get speciality fries for $3 here for 1, or a basket for $6. Similar to Tipsy Cow, they have Truffle, but they also have sweet potato w/ Sriracha Mayo, a real goodie.
So there you go. In addition, you can get things other than fries at those places, like alcohol and entrees. I would give Mad City Frites a 2.5, but i'm rounding down here because frites are the only thing they do, and I wouldn't put them in the top 5 for Fries in the city, so why I would ever go here?
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