Pancake-battered cheese curds. Yes, you read that right. The Tin Fox makes its cuds with a pancake batter and glazes the curds with 100% pure maple syrup. The sweetness of the syrup complements the savory quality of the curds, creating a very unique rendition of a classic Wisco favorite.
The cheddar curds at Carr Valley Cheese are delicious not just because the cheddar is heavenly, but also because Carr Valley offers its own batter mix if you’d like to fry ’em up yourself.
The puffs over at Middleton’s Longtable Beer Cafe might as well be curds, with Wisconsin’s own Montchevre Goat Cheese baked inside a sage-leavened fluffy puff pastry.
The Old Fashioned, which also won best cheese curds in Best of Madison 2019, serves its cheese curds with a house-made Wisconsin beer batter, with a choice of dips that includes smoked paprika, roasted garlic, buttermilk ranch or tiger blue.
Curd Girl, a food cart specializing in cheese curds, took second place. The cart pops up at festivals throughout the summer and opens at the Dane County Farmers’ Market on a weekly basis.
Readers were able to vote daily on their favorite restaurants for in May through June 3. There were 20 restaurants nominated from across the state.
Other restaurants that made the top 10 were Main Street Taps in Stevens Point, Grumpy Troll Brew Pub in Mount Horeb, Eddie Whipp’s Dining Hall in Green Bay, Sconni’s Alehous & Eatery in Schofield, Crawfish Junction in Johnson Creek, Chuck’s Dyckesville Bowl in Luxemburg, Pioneer Keg in Theresa and Kristi’s Restaurant in New Glarus.
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