Highland Corner Grill — Restaurant in Madison

In a town like Madison. You will find so many excellent restaurants. Unfortunately this is not one of them. I stayed at this hotel many times and given the restaurant a couple of chances before writing this. The bartender is always fun and friendly. The service is always very good. If at the bar usually excellent! But food has always been below average. Today for example. I did takeout. I can keep it simple and to the point. The wings we ordered had a taste of oil that was clearly overdue to change (did not eat them). Move on to the Bruschetta. They took a simple and delicious item and tried to put a new spin on it. Maybe tonight it was simply not expected right. However what I received was absolutely cold pieces of toast with melted cheese on top. Then the tomatoes somehow were warm (nothing else was). The basil was not bright green and had a weird flavor. My guess is that the tomato mixture was pre mixed so the flavor was lost. The mozzarella that was melted was different but no traditional parm or Romano could be tasted or was provided on the side. Again this is not my first time here and the service has always been amazing. That said if you don’t want to leave the hotel and eat here. I suggest keeping it simple. We have had decent...

I enjoyed this establishment. The Highland Corner Grill is attached to the Best Western Inntowner hotel where I was staying for work in the area. Seemed like after my late 10+ hour days I could easily locate a seat at the small bar and find excellent pricing on both food and drink - with both being quite tasty whether it be wings, quesadillas, burgers, salad bar beers or martini's. There are higher end meals other than pub-food as well.

Bartenders and service staff were top notch with food/drink suggestions and friendly back-and-forth banter.

Honestly, I felt little need to leave my hotel for nourishment during my stay in Madison.

Note the Inntowner hotel uses the restaurant space for complementary breakfast in the morning. No frills/standard breakfast items that certainly are enough to get you going in the AM.

One additional note - this hotel has A LOT of patrons who are in the area for very serious medical reasons and are getting treatment at the university hospital. You will see these individuals in all areas of the complex - a quick reminder of how much we (the able bodied) take...

I give one star because the food was great. Service was horrible. My son and I stood at the front of the restaurant for a good 8 mins as the 2 servers looked at us and walked by multiple times. When one of them finally did acknowledge us or me for a better word we were finally seated. She didn't offer me a child menu. She was rude I watched her tend to other tables before she finally came over and got my order. She looks at my 1 year old and says does he want anything to drink? It wasn't until i was sitting there for a while and my son was getting fussy that I walked up to the front to see if they had any crayons. They hand me crayons. So I ask for paper too. Now I am aware that there is a child menu. So I decide to order something for my son. They bring out my food, and when I am done eating they still haven't brought out the fruit and mac and cheese that I ordered nearly 15 mins ago. I ended up leaving my cash on the table for my meal and walking out. TERRIBLE...