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| - We stopped here on a Badger hockey game day, just a few days after they opened. No new restaurant growing pains here! Plenty of knowledgeable and friendly staff, and some of the coolest ambiance in Madison. Industrial feel with repurposed pipes & gears, and faucets as coat hooks. Loved it.
The owner greeted us upon arrival and gave us the low down on their menu. Traditional sausages like dogs and brats, and some specialty sausages based on foods they love to eat, plus a guest sausage from a local chef. Check out the menu for yourself - so many options! Nice beer selection - served in mason jars which was fun. New Glarus Black Top for him, Hacker-Pschorr wheat for her.
We started with the fried chz curds (only $4!!), which were, in our professional curd eating opinions, some of the best that we had ever eaten. We ended up getting three orders total in our group. Local curds from the owners home town of Monroe, fried to perfection. You can get them with ranch, honey mustard or Siracha mayo. We chose ranch, which was nice and thick and very tasty.
On to the sausages...we both decided to go with the Bahn Mi sausage. Vietnamese pork sausage: pickled veggies, cilantro, jalapeños, chili-mayo. Just the right amount of spice (especially good with beer) and crunch. Per the hubby, the pork sausage melted in his mouth. I'm not a meat eater, but OSS gives the option of subbing in a vegan sausage into any of their specialty sausages with made me quite happy! I immediately recognized the three vegan flavor options (chipotle, Italian, smoked apple & sage) to likely be Field Roast brand sausages. I got the Italian. I've never had an awesome vegan sausage (& I've tried and tried and tried to find one), and Field Roast is about the best I've had, so it was a good choice on their part, but it would be great to see someone out there try to make a decent tasting veggie sausage! In this case, the toppings were so fantastic, and the perfect pairing to any sausage, that I was ecstatic with the whole experience.
We rounded out the meal with their hand cut french fries. Just like the curds, they were fried to perfection. Obviously fresh, peel on, and just great, great, great.
There are so many sausages to try, we will DEFINITELY be going back. It made us nostalgic for Italian sausages at the outdoor beer garden on Badger football game day at Josie's Restaurant that used to sit on this same spot. OSS will absolutely kill it on game day! The waitress kept going outside ( less than 10 degrees out!) with free samples of curds, drawing people in. This place is going to be packed once the word gets out!! The staff told us that we were their first 8 top table - biggest group that they'd had so far...we were so proud. :)
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