Graze ★ 4.6
Graze on Capitol Square, Tory Miller's American gastropub next door to L'Etoile since 2010, sources about 80 percent of its food locally with Capitol views.
L'Etoile is a fine-dining restaurant in Madison.
L'Etoile on Capitol Square, opened by Odessa Piper in 1976 and run by James Beard winner Tory Miller since 2005, is Madison's seminal farm-to-table flagship.
Address: 1 S Pinckney St, Madison, WI 53703
Graze on Capitol Square, Tory Miller's American gastropub next door to L'Etoile since 2010, sources about 80 percent of its food locally with Capitol views.
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Cento on West Mifflin, the Food Fight group's downtown Italian flagship under chef Michael Pruett, runs handmade pasta, wood-fired pizza and a chef's table.
Lombardino's on University Avenue, the west-side Italian fine-dining room reborn under Michael Banas in 2000, runs hand-cut pasta and wood-fired veal.