1855 Saloon and Grill

Have done a lot of dining around Madison and have never been as satisfied as I was with this place. I was super happy to go a little further east and find a restaurant that has a friendly face as soon as you walk in the door and great food! The name makes it sound like your average restaurant/bar, but it really doesn’t do this place justice. They serve a wide variety of food ranging from something a little more casual and approachable, along with higher end locally sourced dishes. We enjoyed the beef stroganoff special, beet salad, and prime rib sandwich, then finished off with a Brandy Alexander. Our server Ella was fantastic and never missed a beat. She was so attentive, accommodated changes, and gave great recommendations. Will be coming here again for sure!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Love the atmosphere! The Wait Staff is Top Notch! We have a couple meetings a year there and we couldn't be happier with the food, service, pricing, and accommodations!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Food was good and service in general was good until the bill came. We asked to provide 3 credit cards split 1/3 each and the waiter made some sort of mistake and charged one card 1/3 and another card 2/3 and the other 0. Then he came to us to solve the problem. He should have asked for help from manager or crediting that transaction and started over but just put us on the spot to solve it. Frankly I think that was just plain lazy.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 3

Good Food / Good Service / A place to put on your Bucket List...

Parking: Not a problem...

Wheelchair accessibility: Easy-to-use

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Caesar Salad

Super disappointed- we used to love it here
6:00 Saturday night and they are out of prime rib???? We find out after we order... the guy in front who was seating people was rude and we almost left and kid of wish we would've!
Brussels appy and chocolate cake we phenomenal!
Bourbon maple chicken was like oil soaked pecan chicken - we've had in the past and was great, barely edible tonight.
Jumbo Shrimp soaked in oil
Medium ordered filet- over cooked and was it really a filet?
The server was so nice and great... thanks Kinsey.
I think we won't be returning

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 5

Overall a good place to eat with a group. They even gave the birthday boy free ice-cream! The Saturday special prime rib was great!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Great 1855 steak. Delicious blue gill. Wonderful adult beverages.

Wheelchair accessibility: Rear entrance from parking lot.

Atmosphere: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Shrimp Scampi Linguini, Fish Fry, Fried Pickles

I had the Chicken Parmesan and Caesar salad. It was very good. My wife had a 12oz prime rib. It was very fatty and chewy. She shared her disappointment with our waitress and also with a man, presumably a manager. Neither seemed overly concerned about an unhappy customer. I would not recommend this restaurant for a prime rib dinner.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 5

Atmosphere, service and the soup were good. The Saturday prime rib special was horrible. I ordered a rare prime rib dinner. 20 minutes later when the dinner was delivered the meat was brown indicating to me that it was not rare as I ordered. The server took it back to the kitchen. About 5 minutes later she returned with the manager who set my plate down and told me that they do not do rare prime rib. The best they could offer was medium rare. I said that I wish I had been told that when I ordered because I would have order something different. He offered to allow me to change my order, but everyone else was eating their dinners and I did not want to wait another 20 minutes for my food so I accepted the dinner. When I cut into the meat it was obvious that it was not medium rare but a least medium well. It cut hard and each bite was chewy. It was also cold since it had been carted back and forth from the kitchen. I ate about 1/3 of the meat and took the rest home for the dog. It’s was a $30 mistake.

Great service from our waitress but slow food delivery from the kitchen. Food was really good. Recommend the cherry old fashioned and pecan chicken.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Side Salad

I came here to grab some food after spending time at the car show, only to be disappointed. The food menu was very limited from what I originally saw online all because of the car show.
They couldn't accommodate the whole menu because of the car show, even though the place was pretty dead, looked like the regulars were only there.
It seemed like they can't accommodate the whole bar if it was busy.
Seeing what they did makes me wonder how ofter they limit their menu due to activities in the area.

Best burger you can get! Period!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Soup & Salad, Fish Fry, Wood Fire Pizza, Saloon Burger

As a returning customer we were disappointed with our dinner and experience tonight. Our server did not know what a kettle on martini was, we ordered a glass of Chardonnay and received a glass of red wine. We ordered ranch dressing, received French and when we asked for ranch instead the server never brought any. We ordered the bread appetizer and what we received was 2 warmed hamburger buns with butter and olive oil - it was also $9 on the menu and we were charged $10 for that ~ so disappointing. One of our dinners was ordered as a hamburger with added bacon - it arrived as a cheeseburger. Our server would take one drink order and leave quickly with out asking the rest of the table.
The rest of the food was average. This was a Thursday night - many open tables it took almost 2 hours for dinner. It will be a long time till we come back unfortunately.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 2

Scallops were sandy, and I felt like I was chewing on leather. Salad was good, and saffron rice was decent. I will come back because the service was good and the covered outdoor seating was very nice. It was a great atmosphere. I won't order the same thing, so we'll see.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 2

Service: 4

Great steak and bbq shrimp dinners tonight. Highly recommend.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5