09/28/2025
Lunch today was decent and disappointing. Here’s how it went down.
The place was busy so we wanted to give them some slack. However, our food took a half hour to 45 minutes to come out. That being said none of our meals were a long cook.
Bruce
I ordered a four stack sampler of beer. All the beers were decent from dark to peanut butter chocolate as my dessert drink. I ordered the fish and chips, nice size piece of fish. The batter was light and the fish cooked properly. The fires/chips were well cooked and nicely seasoned. My meal was to my liking. The coleslaw is always understated / underrepresented. Nobody serves enough coleslaw for my liking. However I love cabbages anti-carcinogenic capabilities but what can I say? It’s a side dish.
Tanya was disappointed in both her burger and her chips.
Her chips were over salted. They make the chips they’re on site. She fixed her chips to her liking by using ketchup as a dip.
Her burger tasted frozen and had corn in it. She said that miss is on her because she does have a corn sensitivity. She forgot to ask that question. So that miss is on her. But again the burger did taste like it was frozen, not fresh.
Kris said her Ruben was good. Her issue was her chips. but her chips were inconsistent. Some were soggy, some crispy she definately had problems with her chips.
Overall, we cannot give this a 5 star rating. We give this a 2 1/2 star rating.
That really drops because of the food, the service and our wait time for food.
We had to flag down a server a couple of times whether it was a someone walking by to ask questions of. Or raise my hand for our server to come collect my credit card check.
And it goes a little further here if you pay by credit card Madison Brewing Company Pub & Restaurant will charge you an additional credit card convenience fee. See our receipt for proof. Charges are over 2% additional to use a credit credit. That is illegal, but I’m seeing it more and more across the country as I travel.
So the big question would we eat here again? At this time no we cannot recommend eating here.
Suggestions for improvement.
Fees
Stop charging credit card fees. If feels greasy and does not look good. If you need to raise prices to cover the credit card fees. Then adjust them accordingly.
Salads
Offer a build your own salad option.
You offer some salad options that could be customizable but once we take away the items that we are sensitive to there is almost only lettuce and tomato.
Build your own salad is a popular option we are seeing in the Midwest that is too slowly working it way east.