Soga - Madison

We have tried soga shabu shabu on Monday night for dinner. this was at her new location on the floor level on the state street. the location in the state street is easy to find and easy to reach. although the restaurant has been open at this site for several months, it still seemed as if the space was in construction. our waitress led us to an empty table and we searched the menus here it is confusing. there are two completely different menus. one is what I will call the American menu. it has found the ubiquitous dishes in every take-out Chinese restaurant. cheap, fills, occasionally delicious, but often slandered. on their website they call it the all day menu. then there are...read more

This restaurant is located on the upper floor of an older building in the state street. on the road they climb a long staircase, illuminated on both sides by a series of blue rope lights. I felt good as if I was on the way to a disco, haha. we were greeted by a friendly waitress who immediately set us up. it was late in the afternoon and very quiet in the restaurant. we ordered the winzer soup and sesam huhn with fried rice. the winton soup was very good, and the sesame chicken was okay. I'm not a fan of baked chicken anyway, but it didn't upset me. the fried rice was disappointing on the cool side. the 3 pieces broccoli that were on the side of the plate...read more

Only a limited experience here, but a nice. stopped on a laune at the walk on state st. and saw this new restaurant. decided to try it, ordered an eirolle 1) and the kung pohun 7.95) for the execution. while waiting for my order, the hostess gave me a glass of water, although I did not demand one (outside the time was in the 80s, so it was a friendly, hospitable touch I greeted) I quickly got my food and went. the pork was delicious. Small-ish, but it was just $1 if they like bigger, regular egg rolls, they get 2 for $2. that's worth it. my kung the chicken stable was huge. my only complicity was that I liked more sweet. the court...read more

We really enjoyed this place - one of the best kept secrets of state street is up sketchy staircase, much like city bar is down a sketchy staircase. Their

I used to love this placeBut the chef changed, and the owner changed, and I stopped going there.