Curve, Madison, Wisconsin Restaurant Details

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The food soooooooooooo good when you go you will get hooked

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The best breakfast in Madison. Service is 5 star. You may have to wait for spot to sit on a Sunday morning, but totally worth the wait. Be patient and polite.

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The Curve for breakfast. Plus sized plates , friendly staff. Best greasy spoon in Madison .

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I frequent this local diner whenever I wake up early (my work often keeps me awake well into the night) and require a cup of Joe and some breakfast in company. This Madison gem earns its luster by catering to those who appreciate an authentic diner-feel with its no-nonsense & cash-only policies. While the cash-only bit might dissuade some, it is important to note that the store owner maintains this strict policy in order to keep the meal prices reasonable - which they are! I've found no other restaurant in Madison that reliably sends me home with leftovers, nor one which warrants the qualifier of "greasy-spoon diner" so worthily.

I once was enjoying my breakfast here when a family entered the shop with a rowdy child in their midst. While I prefer to dine in the absence of yelling children, I have come to take such changes in atmosphere as inevitable, and so I began to hurry through my breakfast. Not two minutes into the child's carrying-on (as the parents had apparently lost their ability to appreciate such disturbances) I witnessed the owner of the shop walk over to the child, who was at this point standing on a chair while yelling, and sternly tell the young lad to sit down and stop disturbing his other patrons. The boy looked to his parents, who were looking on in surprise, and then promptly sat down & fell silent. The other staff have adopted this pleasant, but assertively no-nonsense demeanor as well, and you will often find some of Madison's finest & most singular individuals exchanging banter, jokes, or other pleasantries in this atmosphere. I especially recommend The Curve Omelet or - if you have a sweet tooth - the french toast as regular-menu items. However, the specialty hand-crafted Italian sausage or home-made corned beef hash have (and I cannot emphasize this enough) no peer either categorically (when measured against "similar" items at other venues) or in terms of general dollar value.

One of the most assured ways for a business to charm me out of my hard-earned coin is to demonstrate its appreciation of those who labor within its confines. The staff here is payed admirably, and you will see two or three of the same four characters (if you include the proprietor in this number) each and every time you enter the shop, guaranteed. In fact, three of these four have worked here for longer than 4 years (perhaps significantly longer, but I've only been a loyal regular for this length of time). It is hard to come by a shop in Madison that is so able to retain its employees, and I take this fact as the best of signs & furthermore urge you to consider visiting.

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Solid, old school, greasy spoon. Good omelets, good coffee, staff is fast but friendly.