Madison Restaurant
“The food was so hearty and there is a huge portion.”
“Get a Belgian waffle with your eggs– drenched in real maple syrup it's one of the best I've had.”
“The fruit salad is a great touch, and it doesnt just include your normal melons and grapes either.”
Madison Restaurant
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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This is an above average diner that has the magical 5th star bc of its hours. Seriously, NYC DOES sleep, especially their food establishments. So, for Madison taking me in (along with 7 other picklebackers at 3am who didn't want to end the evening yet) and dropping off some diner classics, I have to give them all the love I can. I can tell you what we had and all that jazz, but it's a diner. You'll see the 12-page menu. You'll see the white plates with blue lining. You'll get a heaping pile of hashbrowns and huge omelets. If you're a diner guy, this place will not fail ya. If you're a late night drunkard, make this place your mecca.
Its a basic diner.
Slow service, rude waiter, decent middle-of-the-line food.
The roast beef sandwich was dry, fatty and disgusting. Never again.
The waiter neglected to bring fruit to our table, brought extra eggs that no one ordered, forgot our tea, forgot syrup, rolled his eyes at us when we asked to refill our water (Who does that?!) and rolled his eyes at us when we asked to pay separately.
The redeeming qualities of this diner was the Lox Deluxe and the servers.
Lox with bagel was generous with Nova Scotia Lox. Love the capers and olives that accompany this meal. I would recommend if you are ever stuck in Midtown East and need a palatable meal.
The boys that brought our food and filled our water were sweet and helpful.
I came here on a Saturday morning for brunch and while the place was packed, my friend and I managed to get a seat immediately. The tables are really squeezed in together and I lost all desire to get up and go to the bathroom for fear of having to push my way through all the chairs and people.
I ordered pancakes with ham and two scrambled eggs. They arrived on two different plates and took up so much space on the tiny table we were at. For some inexplicable reason, they had hidden the ham underneath my pancakes and placed the scrambled eggs on a separate huge plate where they looked really small and lonely. It was an unnecessary waste of space and really confusing because they had stuffed all of my friend's meal onto one large plate.
The pancakes were dry and difficult to eat. I don't think I even finished one, and the part that I did eat, I had to drown in syrup in order to get it moist enough to chew. The eggs and ham were the only palatable parts of the dish and I had to settle with eating just that.
Our waitress took her time getting to us to finish up our meal and settle our checks. She also spent a large amount of time just standing by our table and watching us eat midway through the meal.
Maybe it was because the restaurant was so busy, but I didn't enjoy this experience.
I weirdly love this diner. It's my local, so hooray for convenience… but more than that, it is consistently good and I'm especially impressed with the unfailingly pleasant service. The servers are especially tolerant of loud children, which is actually really nice to see. I am always happy to visit for my usual omelette and coffee.
Yummy!
Came here for Saturday brunch. Glad I did. It was quite crowded already by 10am, but there happened to be open seats at the counter so we took them.
Service is quick. Menu is huge. We decided to get corned beef hash combo, which came with toast, 2 poached eggs, and hash browns. Delicious. Great portions. In addition, we tried the French toast plain. This was a seriously amazing French toast. Flavorful and soft. Huge. This is a must-get.
Coffee was decent and came with free refills. Looks like they had a lot of dessert too.
After my routine work-out at the gym, I hit up the local diner just a block away. Service was quick, the waiter seated me right away and had my coffee within 30 seconds. They have an extensive menu here, obviously breakfast could be served all day but they also have a large selection of sandwiches, burgers, and dinner entrees.
For me personally I'm a breakfast guy. I ordered my own combination 3 egg omelette, with mushrooms, bacon and cheese. It came with a huge serving of home fries and buttered toast. The omelette was cooked well, and I really loved how they did the home fries, they julienne them here and they had just the right amount of crisp.
I couldn't leave without dessert of course. I decided to have the cheesecake with a side of ice cream. A few minutes later the waiter came out with a big slice of cheesecake topped with strawberries and blueberries with an equally generous scoop of ice cream. Now I'm pretty sure they don't bake their own desserts here, but still whatever bakery they order them from is pretty damn good. I liked that the cheesecake was chilled at the perfect temperature, I've had the misfortune of hurting my teeth trying to bite into a frozen cheesecake at some other restaurants before. But no, here the cheesecake was cool but creamy and smooth, just the way it should be.
I read somewhere this restaurant served great breakfast what a big disappointment. Burnt toast they tried to scrape the burn off, yuk. Over cooked my bacon it was like eating a thin salty board, coffee was so light tasting , 32$ i will never see again
Madison is your standard neighborhood diner….yet better. The staff is friendly, the pancakes are fluffy, the omelettes are huge and the potatoes are tasty.
They also have huge, quality salads if you are in a healthier mood. The lines are never too long, even at peak times, and when there is a line it goes briskly.
If you are around midtown east at brunch time, you really cannot do much better if you want standard diner fare. A couple of my favorites are the chocolate chip pancakes and broccoli and cheddar omelette.