Bennett's (Gene) Meadowood Country Club - Madison - Friday Night Fish Fry
This entry was posted on 2/19/2010 2:47 AM and is filed under Friday Night Fish Fry.
The wood sign on the kitchen counter says,
Gene Bennett's Meadowood County Club since 1977. The building on Freeport Road looks well over 100 years old. This ain't the first time we've been here. Heide and I lived a few houses down back in 1992 and '93. This is the consummate neighborhood bar. It looks like they have set up a smoking trailer to upstage the smoking-ban Nazis and nanny-staters in Madison.
There was another
Bennett's closer to downtown. Go figure, only in Wisconsin - its like the Farm and Fleet, and the Fleet and Farm saga. Urban legends abound. I hear the Bennett's downtown-ish is no longer.
Anyway, our old stomping ground
Bennett's is alive and well and we are here to talk fish. The Friday fish fry starts tavern early - around 11 a.m.-ish. You will start out with an interesting salad offering up top of the kitchen counter. There are six items: cold elbow macaroni and cheese; potato salad; cottage cheese; cole slaw; chicken and ham salad; and, Cajun chicken salad (to-die-for).
The lunch price of the Walleye is $6.50; later in the day it goes up to $9.00. Heide ate light and just ordered some onion rings as we were on a mission to go out later that night. I ordered the Walleye with French fries. The Walleye has a type of Cajun breading I will not soon forget. For a noon fish fry, it rivals upper crust supper clubs in taste.
The place is packed at noon; just like I remember it always was. People talked about life - not about the miseries of the day like the mantra down in former GM-town Janesville. The Sword Fish and Wild Pig are still on the wall. I believe there is a Blue Marlin hanging in there too.
The Sunday Smut-N-Eggs and Porn-in-the-morn innuendos still peek out of menus and various places in the tavern. Oddly, I have never made the Sunday porn pilgrimage. Perhaps now that I have a Strip Club Category I could find time to make it fit in some where in my particular blog shtick.
Bennett's Meadowood Country Club is cool with Cool Dadio. Find Bennett's on Freeport Road just off of Verona Road and Raymond Road as you get close to the Belt-line. Call (608) 271 - 3827 for more information.
Wisconsin Military Service Person Special Mention of the Week
(each week Cooldadiomedia mentions a Wisconsin service person killed in Iraq or Afghanistan)
This week's Wisconsin military service person to remember is Marine Lance Corporal John Mattek Jr., 24, who died from wounds he received from a roadside bomb that exploded near his Humvee in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. John died in the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland on Monday, June 13, 2005. The explosion was on June 8. He was a gunner on an armored vehicle. Lance Corporal Mattek was flown to Germany and then to Maryland. He was assigned to Company B, 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team-2, 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force. The unit's home base is in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel mentioned John had been valedictorian of his high school graduating class of 1999 at Antigo High School. He was also active in student government serving as class president throughout his four years and also serving as student council president. The Journal Sentinel went on to say John played linebacker on the high school football team and after graduating, he went on to play strong safety and special teams for the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point's football team. John Mattek Jr. was the 40th Wisconsin service member to be killed in Iraq since the spring of 2003.
As of this blog entry's posting date:
95,315 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
9,378 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,380 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
980 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
317 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
639 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
31,648 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,923 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
101 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
17 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
139 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
17 journalists (various nationalities) have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
Wisconsin military service person special mention of the week, military casualty, and journalist casualty information sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; cnn.com; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; washingtonpost.com; thehighground.org; Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs; iraqbodycount.org; and, icasualties.org.
