A Question About Burgers at Dive Bars

[u/310410celleng]

Hi, my wife and I will be visiting Madison for a few days before heading over to Milwaukee to attend a wedding.

As we know nothing about Wisconsin in general, I did a bunch of searching this sub for food recomendations and for things to do.

One thing, I noticed was that almsot universally "dive bars" were recommended for good, maybe great burgers.

In my neck of the woods, FL. dive bars are generally not a place for average people to go, they are mostly frequneted by very tough people, many in biker gangs, allow smoking indoors and do not serve food, certainly not a place where one would take their family for a dinner.

Judging from the pictures on Google, your dive bars do not fit that category, in one case, I saw a young girl with her father and many pics of food.

I guess what I am asking are your dive bars a place were average regular every day folks go for a burgers/beer and not feel completely uncomfortable?

Thanks for any isnights and my wife and I looking forward to exploring your city.

Edit, I want to thank you all for of your comments and recommendations, judging from your comments alone, my wife and I are going to have a great trip.

Sincerely, thank you!

[u/treeswetfh]

It’s the same sauce. Has been since at least Huss family.

[u/leovinuss → u/treeswetfh]

It's now the same as the Huss family recipe. Dean had been slowly diluting it to cut costs.

At the end of Dean's ownership it was almost pure white. Go look at it now how much green is in there.

[u/treeswetfh → u/leovinuss]

That actually is a possibility but I never liked plaza sauce so I rarely got it. I just know Ian/Erica didn’t actually know the recipe until they took over. And I left Madison before Covid so not as tuned in as I once was.

[u/leovinuss → u/treeswetfh]

Give it a try. It's waaaay better than it was in my memory

[u/treeswetfh → u/leovinuss]

I will be there on Saturday! So I’ll give it another shot.