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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.
Sardine is a fine-dining restaurant in Madison.
Sardine on Williamson Street, the long-running French bistro in the historic Machinery Row building on Lake Monona, runs steak frites and moules-frites.
Address: 617 Williamson St, Madison, WI 53703
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.
Tornado Steak House on South Hamilton, Madison's traditional supper club tier a block off Capitol Square, runs aged steaks and the Friday fish fry every week.
Lucille on King Street, in a historic bank on Capitol Square, runs wood-fired pizza, a Wisco-Detroit pan pizza and Pan-Latin small plates from one kitchen.
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.
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.