The Bar
1 W Dayton St, Madison
(608) 257-6000
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My family and I attended the Thanksgiving buffet at the Concourse Hotel. The wait staff were all friendly, attentive and helpful. The food was delicious and plentiful. The buffet tables were set up with lots of space for people to transit from one location to another. We enjoyed ourselves.
Thanksgiving buffet- the food choices were terrific and tasted great. The staff was friendly and attentive. The only disappointment was the servings at the carving station which were equivalent to deli meat slices as far as portions. Overall the food was delicious and would highly recommend to anyone.
We love the Thanksgiving feast at the Madison Concourse hotel. This was our third year and plan to be back next year. Appreciated being able to purchase cocktails on our way in. Appetizers were wonderful and especially loved the apple, sweet potato, cranberry salad. Turkey and stuffing were terrific. And the carrot cake was Devine!!
Our Thanksgiving meal is just over the top. Everything from the salads to the desserts was exceptional. 
We have gone to thanksgiving buffets before,this was excellent. Laid out well so no long lines food good everyone really nice
I’ve enjoyed winding down at the end of a long at this bar. The staff is friendly and does a great job of making the experience enjoyable.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Overall decent food and choices. Plenty of room and seated promptly. The host lead us to our table and didn't explain anything. We sat for a bit and then decided to get food. I had a water refill 2 times and Ian came to the table once for bar drinks. The 18% gratuity was ridiculous as we did all the serving ourselves. We were a party of 8(1 child) and our bill was over $500 including tip. Not worth it!
Brunch  exceeded everybody's expectations and the service was absolutely perfect and the flowers were gorgeous. The food was excellent too. Thank you so much!
We enjoyed a delicious Easter Brunch with a variety of foods for everyone. We had very attentive wait staff. We will be back next year.
We had a reservation for Easter brunch at 1:15. The seating was very disorganized. We finally were seated at about 145. When we sat down, the table cloth was soaking wet as if someone had spilled something on it prior to a seating. The waiter assured us that they changed the Table cloths between every visitor, but that has to be impossible, considering our laps were soaking wet from the tablecloth as we sat down. We were missing all of our flatware. It took quite a bit of chasing down to find someone to bring us some flatware. After we ate, everything was cleared, including all of our flatware so we didn't have any flatware for dessert and we weren't brought any flatware for dessert so we had to chase someone down to find flatware again. Overall, I think this was a very disappointing experience. The food was average. 
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I love raw oysters. I think the Concourse has had them at past brunches. I hope they can bring them back in the future. Otherwise, the food choices were outstanding. Everything I sampled was delicious.
The food was great, wait time was minimal, everything was organized well and we very much enjoined our Easter Brunch. One note, if you need to make reservations for Easter Brunch for more than 12 people (we had 20 people) it is very difficult. We called the hotel directly as directed on the reservations website for parties larger than 12, but were only connected to voicemail and our messages went unanswered, We emailed the email address associated with the Easter Brunch, again that went unanswered. And when we ended up making two separate reservations, one for 11 and one for 9 while stating in the “Special Notes” section that we wanted to be seated together, we arrived to be seated very far apart and told nothing could be done. We had discussions with several people and they finally figured out a way to move one of our parties next to the other party so that we could be together for our Easter Brunch. While everything about the brunch was wonderful, making a reservation for more than 12 people is next to impossible and very frustrating. As we hope to continue our tradition of attending the Easter Brunch together each year I hope this difficulty will be addressed in the future.
We attended Easter brunch at the Concourse hotel. The meal was held in a ballroom on the 2nd floor. The ballroom was well organized with good spacing for the various food stations and plenty of seating. We had a group of 6 people, 4 of us are vegetarians. Even though there were many meat options, there was a bounty of vegetables, green salads, pasta salads, cheeses and crackers, fruit, French toast, scrambled eggs, multiple hot potato dishes and yogurt & granola. For those who eat meat, there were plenty of options including prime rib, lamb, shrimp and salmon plus all of the breakfast meats. Then it was time for dessert! OMG! My only complaint was that the plates weren't big enough. All of the food was delicious. We will definitely go back!
The Easter Bruch (2nd floor Ballroom) Our reservation was 9:30am, and the doors to the ballroom were open to receive us at 9:15am. Ashley was very friendly and efficient as hostess/greeter. She indicated we were designated for Table 8 (we were a party of 3 adults). We were led to our seats and introduced to Darrin who would be our server for the brunch. Darrin immediately brought us coffee and took our cocktail order: 2 Whiskey Blossom Sours and 1 Bloody Mary. The brunch choices and layout were superb--enough variety for young and mature patrons alike. Fresh seafood, appetizers, salads, fruit, a carving station for lamb and prime rib (delicious), eggs/bacon/sausage, pastas, potato dishes,and a dessert island with chocolate lovers heaven along with stuffed profitetole, mini tartes, pastries--everything wonderful and perfectly served. Darrin our server and Jas who whisked away empty plates and glasses as quickly as we finished each course--they made it look effortless (the mark of true professionals). We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. It was our first visit to the Madison Concourse brunch, but we will definitely be repeat visitors.
After a hectic day…this place was much needed. Turned our day around for the better! Conveniently located in the hotel we were staying at. Had great service, great food and drinks at a great price. Would go back. 10/10
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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