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| - To be honest I was hoping for more from our first visit to 1847 at the Stamm House. We've driven past a great location and awesome, historic building throughout the remodeling process and for the last several months. tonight we were thinking of heading elsewhere, but unexpected crawling traffic led us to stop in here instead.
We arrive quite early on a Thursday which may have accounted for the notably advanced age of nearly every other patron. We had our two young children in tow and they were certainly the only kids in the house. All in all i would not consider 1847 a kid friendly venue (but that's not inherently a bad thing).
I've heard great things about the drinks, but this wasn't really a cocktail sort of night so I enjoyed a Central Water's porter on nitro, which was quite good. We sat out on the patio, which was pretty nice, but by the end our table was pretty crowded and there were really only three of us (and only one with a single drink in addition to water). Be prepared to shuffle dishes extensively if you're enjoying the patio with more than 2 people.
We started with the pickled veg appetizer, which was actually quite nice. A nice blend of tastes and textures spanning sweet, bitter, salty, earthy, and pleasantly vegetative. The goat cheese paired nicely with most everything on the plate and was quite good mopped up with the pickling juices using the complimentary bread an sweet cream butter.
My wife ordered the tagliatelle, which was far and away the highlight of the evening. The house made pasta is delicious with a perfect texture! The sauce accented the freshness of the pasta and the mushrooms added a ton of earthiness and umami decadence. I'd order this again in a heartbeat!
My thursday night special of schnitzel and spatezel was more hit and miss. The pork was a little dull and a little tough and may have benefited TREMENDOUSLY from a nice slice of lemon on the side to add a bit of brightness. The spatezel was quite good and the accompanying auce had a subtle hint of mustard that shone through.
My son's burger was frankly very bad. We requested it medium and it showed up raw and cold in the center. there was not seared crust on the burger at all and it seemed to have not even been seasoned. This was a HUGE miss. $10 for a plain burger (literally meat and bun) is far too much to ask, especially if it's not cooked correctly. Yes I could have sent it back and no I did not bring it up during dinner (probably should have) but he wasn't really giving the strong hungry signals anyway so he just made do with pickled veg, bread, and french fries. The fries were good, but not great, really nothing special.
All told our meal for two adults and one child (with one beer) was $70, which is just too pricey for this overall experience. It was by no means bad enough to say we'll never be back, but we're certainly not in any kind of hurry to return. There are undoubtedly better dining experiences to be had in Madison...
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