"2015-09-22T00:00:00"^^ . . . . "Let me get this out of the way: I feel like \"not a true Madisonian\" because I only find The Old Fashioned to be good, not great. This is where a lot of people take visitors for the \"Madison\" experience but ultimately as good as they are (and they're a bit of alright) ... I can't get past the noise level.\n\nWhen I go out to eat I want to be able to talk to the people I am out with. If you get into The Old Fashioned after 5pm -- you can kiss that goodbye.\n\nThe way the restaurant is arranged it can be a gauntlet navigating through it as well (my sympathies to the wait staff, who are excellent by the way).\n\nTheir food is always good, but nothing else really stands out to me. I tend to go for burgers here and so perhaps that is partially on me.\n\nThe big pro, for me, is definitely the cheese curds. The breading is my ideal for what I want cheese curd breading to be. The curds are always flavorful (as opposed to just a wad of gooey salt, or obviously from frozen which is what you experience in many places)... and for this reason alone I will probably still keep coming back once in a rarity.\n\nWhen I do come back, however, it will be early enough so that I can still hear the raving of my friends about how amazing the curds are."^^ . "0"^^ . "0"^^ . "3"^^ . "0"^^ .