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| - Boo. I have been to The Tornado room quite a few times as well as many other Wisconsin steak places so that guided my expectations going in. Had heard great things, many said this place was better than Tornado.
But it was not. It was significantly worse. Service was just fine, quick and polite. But the food was very standard steakhouse stuff at a price as high as the best places in town.
Our drinks were hit and miss, good Manhattan, competently incompetent Gimlet. It was not even cold, did not seem to have been shaken, just some gin with lime in it.
We noted the shrimp cocktail was outrageously priced but thought maybe they would be some really impressive shrimp. They were pretty average size, only 4 of them, and there was no horseradish and they had zero flavor themselves. Worth 4 bucks maybe, we spent 20 on it.
The wedge salad was not a wedge. it was a thin slice of iceburg with an enormous amount of dressing that tasted like sugar and oil and nothing else. I am not super into wedge but my wife loves it and she said this sucked as well.
There were rolls. Two to be exact. They were like brown and serve whitebread, flavorless wads of dough from the grocery store. Compared to the bread sampler at Tornado you get it was a big bummer. Also, no veg garnish to snack on.
So up till now it had been disappointing but the whole time we were hoping the steaks would be the star of the show and pull this one out. My wife got the house special and I got the cowboy streak, similar to the bone in ribeye I have gotten many times at Tornado and make at home. We both ordered them medium rare, which is usually a safe bet for well seared on the outside, hot pink insides with somewhat rendered fat. You know, a good steak.
What I got was full on rare in parts, bloody and cold inside without much sear. The connective tissue and fat around the rib eye was completely un-rendered and gross. The main part was better prepared but the meat was not seasoned very much, standard bland steakhouse steak. The steak was large but that was the only thing going for it. My wifes filet was also 80% cold and uncooked and not very flavorful.
We did like the hash browns though. If you want a place to go and have a drink and eat a hash brown you should definitely consider the Wonder Bar. If you want a great steak, or just a fine dining experience where you don't feel like you were ripped off there are so many places in Madison that will serve you better: Pig in a Fur Coat, Tornado Room, Muramoto, Lombardinos and many others that are considerably less expensive but offer much better food.
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