Comments on: Talula Fills The Niche – Restaurant Review

By: Blasts from our Madison past « The Presteblog

Blasts from our Madison past « The Presteblog — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:02:56 +0000

[...] The Pig’s Ear, a high-end restaurant (which I never went to) with garish pink walls. It is now called Talula and has gotten at least one good review. [...]

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:45:19 +0000

Awful as well as expensive. My wife and I ate here a few weeks ago to try the fish fry and regret doing so. It was over $11 and was terrible. After being told they did not serve cod my wife tried the “Ocean Perch” and after one bite was done. I tried whatever the other fish they served was and was equally disgusted. We’ll never go back.

By: ED

ED — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:32:37 +0000

I really love the food and the great selection of beer at this place, the prices are pretty decent but the service is questionable. If they could be nice and not mess up so much with something as common and easy as splitting a check, it has been a problem 3 times now and each time is a different excuse, they never “use the register”, it’s “really busy”, or “that is not a normal request”, really what? I do not recommend going on lunch breaks as it takes over an hour to dine here, mostly waiting for service and the check. I like the food soooo much, but if they don’t do something about the service, I might not go back.

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:32:02 +0000

Our party of four tried this restaurant last week. It was pretty much a total disaster from the beginnning. Inspite of 3 bartenders behind the bar and no other customers, one member of our party had to flag them down for a glass of wine. After we were seated outside (our choice) we ordered the artichoke crostini. It was tastey sans the hair in one of the pieces. The waiter suggested that it blew in from the parking lot! When we asked for plates the “wait assistant” huffed and then rudely placed them on our table.
Three of us requested the salad and one the squash and ginger soup. The soup was delicious. Two of us received our salads but the one order for a wedge of iceburg seemed to have gotten lost. The dinners arrived before that salad, which had a very off putting taste, somewhat like cleaning fluid. Two of us got our dinners probably five minutes before the other two.
The pasta dishes were mediocre, with one being so full of red pepper flakes (not stated on the menu). The pork loin with cranberry port sauce was delicious but it was a butterflied pork chop and not medalians as advertised.
This restaurant needs some serious fixing from the wait staff to the menu before any of us would return.

By: This looks good!

This looks good! — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:57:34 +0000

This restaurant looks great – can’t wait to try it!