To Mr. Jonathan Gold
An open letter.
Dear Mr. Gold,
We're so glad you'll be speaking in Madison in April 2011. We read Counter Intelligence and it inspired, motivated and educated us like nothing else has. We've been eating our way through Madison's restaurants in alphabetical order since 2004 (why?) and, based on that slice of experience, here are some eats we think you'd enjoy investigating.
- Bars/beer
- Diners
- Farm-to-table
- Bradbury's
- Gail Ambrosius chocolates via Fromagination
- Graze
- Underground Kitchen
- Fish frys
- Food carts
- Ice cream/custard
- Locals' favorites
- Cafe Porta Alba
- Old Fashioned
- Lao Laan-Xang [Edit: Whoops - we didn't know you'd been there already.]
- Supper clubs
What's missing: We're proud of our Mexican and Asian restaurants, but we didn't put many on the list because we bet they can't hold a candle to LA's. And we left off the most famous places, which you've probably heard of.
We hope you have a wonderful visit!
Sincerely yours,
Nichole and JM
With thanks to Keith Burrows, Lindsay Christians, Elizabeth Curran, Jordan Ellenberg, Jia Luo, Jesse Lyons, Becky Meyer Pourchot, and Madison Fish Fry.com for their suggestions and Marcelle Richards and Skip for the inspiration.
Posted December 17, 2010 | Revised December 18
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