The Top 5 Tasting Menus Near Madison Maison
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Rank 1. Chez Nous
Mediterranean
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Rank 2. Wild Common
Contemporary New American
Chef Orlando Pagán constructs a tasting menu of deliberate strangeness—pho with carrot kimchi, hamachi crudo kissed with coconut and kumquat—that moves between continents without pretense or stuffiness. The prices stay modest, the ingredients local, and the kitchen visible from the counter, where the real show unfolds.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
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Rank 3. The Restaurant at Zero George
Contemporary
Inside a 150-year-old Charleston hotel, Chef Vinson Petrillo builds a tasting menu of genuine invention: lamb tartare wrapped in a crisp cigar shell, foie gras sandwiched between waffle layers, Atlantic salmon kissed with smoke and citrus. The courtyard and original beams establish a historical frame, but the kitchen's technique and imagination belong entirely to the present.
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Rank 4. Xiao Bao Biscuit
Asian
Chef Josh Walker composes a restless pan-Asian menu in a converted 1940s gas station, colliding okonomiyaki with bacon and chili into something unmoored from tradition. The bar hums at all hours, the heat builds if you let it, and nothing here feels obligated to be what you expect.
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Rank 5. Sushi-Wa
Omakase Sushi
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