Compared to most restaurants, 5 stars. Compared t...

Compared to most restaurants, 5 stars. Compared to other James Beard Award winning restaurants? 3, at best. My meal was about 6 months after the 2012 James Beard for Best Chef Midwest was awarded to Tory Miller. I have a fairly extensive culinary background, I made the trip to Madison specifically to eat at this location. The wine selections that came with our Prix Fixe menu ( Chefs Tasting Experience I believe it was called? ) was much better than the meal itself. We went with the regular wine pairing and the "reserve" pairing. The regular pairing was ok, but the reserve pairing was spectacular.

The food itself wasn't very...inspired. There were several courses, such as a stuffed pasta, that came out cooked just a bit wrong. Nothing horrendous, just not perfect. I think it was $125 for the menu, and $50(?) for the regular wine pairing and $100(?) for the reserve wine pairing at the time. I just remember the cost of the wine pairing and the food costing about the same as the standard menu cost at The French Laundry when I was a stagier there.

I'll go there again soon and update the review I left (3 stars) to see if things have been improved.