The best restaurants South Wisconsin

It's better to have a car to go to Huck Finn's for dinner or lunch. The restaurant is located on French Island, slightly north of La Crosse. From downtown, take Highway 35 north, cross the Black River, reach the island and drive down south to the restaurant. In the marina, close to the water, there is a panoramic restaurant overlooking the Black River. Quiet and welcoming. Simple and good fish and meat dishes. The restaurant closes during the winter season, from the beginning of January to the end of March.

This cafe serves sandwiches, salads and other hot dishes rather correct. Portions are always generous, especially on sandwiches, which fill the belly well. In season, many customers take their takeaway orders and go on picnics in the surrounding area. The atmosphere, very local, is friendly. If the place has been held by several successive owners, the site itself has existed for more than a hundred years, and the bronze dog posted above the entrance has been guarding the High Street forever!

Charming little coffee in a small house at 2 nd Street and 6 th Avenue. Above the Das Alte Victorian Haus art store on the ground floor, small room on the first floor with a few tables. Freshly brewed sandwiches and coffee. In the hall at the top of the stairs, photos of New Glarus at the beginning of the century: apart from its paved roads, the village has not changed much. Nice place to take a break.

One of the ethnic restaurants of State Street. It offers a wide variety of sushi in a pretty chic setting.

In Madison, restaurants are opening and closing at a pretty steep pace. Café Continental has been open for several years, an undeniable sign of good health. Chef Chiavo serves European and Italian cuisine, both for vegetarians and lovers of good steaks. This good restaurant, quite small, is also a wine bar. The table next to the window is the most pleasant.

An excellent sushi restaurant, certainly the best in town and the most popular with locals. The fish is very fresh and melts in the mouth. You can complete your sushi platter with an equally successful donburi or teriyaki. The service is attentive and the presentation meticulous. The lunch menu, consisting of a bento box that includes teriyaki meat or fish, rice and soup, is particularly advantageous.

L'étoile is without a doubt the best restaurant in town. Chef Tory Miller and his seven-course menu is renowned throughout the state of Wisconsin. Very attentive to the quality and originality of the products served, the restaurant team works closely with several local farmers in order to promote the region's terroir. The result is a French-inspired cuisine, with an American touch, all in finesse and subtlety that will delight even the most discerning taste buds.

Formerly Chez Nanou, this restaurant has been taken over by a Frenchwoman from Provence. If you're tired of pork ribs, pizza, burgers and other American specialties, come find refuge here! On the menu, salads, gratins, croque-monsieur and especially salted pancakes, each one better than the other. The welcome is also very warm. For dessert, opt for the delicious lavender crème brûlée or, more classic, the chocolate fondant. In short, a little French break that feels good.

A friendly restaurant with a subdued atmosphere, whose entire décor is inspired by The Sting, the George Roy Hill film. The menu differs at lunch and dinner: the lunch menu is more oriented towards hamburgers and salads, while the dinner menu focuses on meats (superb pork and beef ribs), seafood (the Jumbo Black Tiger Shrimps, huge shrimps, are excellent), all accompanied by a wine list that almost all come from California. And rest assured, the Sting is not a scam.

No big kitchen, just a pub that troubleshoots in the event of a big hunger. Burgers, salads, sandwiches.

The restaurant's rough wooden room creates an authentic atmosphere, allowing you to fully enjoy a cheese fondue, a platter of cold meats or even a schnitzel. It's all very good. Behind the bar, you can see an old cheese vat made of polished recycled copper, which has been turned into an extractor hood above the fire. Just for the record, the Glarner Stube boasts the largest urinal in the Midwest... A New Glarus must-see! Don't forget to book, the place is known and the room is quickly packed.

The dishes here are a little out of the ordinary, especially in terms of seasonings and accompaniments. The whole map has strong Italian and French accents, which is not to be disliked. As an appetizer, the rabbit rillettes are excellent. One could call the cuisine modern American and creative. A good address, surprising, where one dines on large tables, neck and neck with one's neighbours, in a frankly friendly atmosphere. They also serve excellent cocktails, which are out of the ordinary.

Just like in Milwaukee, Colectivo is a coffee chain that has become a sure thing in Madison! There are now three in the city. Colectivo is the meeting place for students between classes, and for young professionals before work or during the lunch break. You can drink very good coffees, and you can also have breakfast or eat a good sandwich, wrap, salad or avocado toast. The menu is available all day long. The café's decor is trendy and design. Perfect for a quick break.

Here's a good place to stop if you've eaten too much cheese during your stay in Wisconsin and need a break! Specialized in salads, Salads Up offers them according to recipes already composed or to be made according to your tastes. We choose its base (romaine salad, kale, quinoa, rice...), its side dishes and its sauce. At lunchtime, many students stop for lunch or order take-out before returning to the university campus. The juices, although expensive, are also very good.

This is where the people of Baraboo meet every morning for coffee or a bagel spread with cream cheese as a breakfast guide. Coffee is also a delicatessen, there are dozens of varieties of teas and coffees to buy in bulk. They are also on the menu, in case you feel like trying a Bolivian coffee or hibiscus tea. The service is pleasant, you can feel that this is a family business. A warm little address to take a break in the city centre.

A family restaurant with a warm atmosphere. Designed as a wooden hut, the place has two stone fireplaces, wooden tables and benches and sculptures. On the menu, there is a little bit of everything: good pieces of meat, chicken breast served with homemade mashed potatoes or salads. The locals also come to buy whole fruit pies, homemade and prepared every day.

Baraboo's cutest restaurant, which will take you back in time to the 1940s to be exact. This diner has been renovated since its inception, but the décor is original, including the benches and stools that face the long, wavy counter. The building has also been classified as a national historic site. The food, which is quite good, is copious and served quickly. They eat burgers, giant burritos and pasta dishes. Everyone here greets each other and seems to know each other. Charming address.

This is the other institution in New Glarus, where you come to taste... Swiss specialties, of course. Everything is there: excellent cheese fondue, raclette, cheese and charcuterie platters, and other authentic Swiss dishes with unpronounceable names that will delight the taste buds of meat and cheese lovers. There are two areas: the small room towards the entrance, very cosy, which houses the bar (ask to be seated there); and the large room at the back, less charming but friendly because it often hosts musicians.