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Aldo's Cafe

★★★½☆ 3.9/5 (56 reviews)
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Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 N Orchard St, Madison, WI 53715 (608) 204-3943 Website
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Reviews (56)

Preston Huft
Preston Huft
★★★★★ Jan 20, 1970

Overall best coffee shop on the UW campus, situated in the beautiful WID. Good coffee and several good food options.

Analisa Gonzales-Cain
Analisa Gonzales-Cain
★★★★★ Jan 20, 1970

The avocado toast here is delightfully simple and absolutely delicious. On campus food selection is limited and this place has short wait times and tasty selections. This is my favorite lunch spot on this side of campus.

Liz Haas
Liz Haas
★☆☆☆☆ Jan 20, 1970

Update: after avoiding Aldo’s for a year, I decided to give it another try today. The rice bowl is swimming in an extremely vinegary dressing. I tried to literally wring out the rice and eat it, but it is once again inedible. This place used to be great, but has really gone downhill. I just had the $9 warm grain bowl, which could more accurately be described as soup, given the large amount of extremely salty dressing. The sesame seeds were also very stale, and the meal was inedible. I used to be a regular here but I won’t be returning.

Leah Grigas
Leah Grigas
★★★☆☆ Jan 20, 1970

The food is good but definately not worth the price.

Lena Luszczynska
Lena Luszczynska
★★★★★ Jan 20, 1970

Kind staff and yummy drinks! Me and the girls love it here. Come here pretty much every day and now I have no money, thx.

Kai
Kai
★☆☆☆☆ Jan 20, 1970

Tried one of their bowls. They charged $3.50 for tofu which turned out to be about five unseasoned pieces. The bowl itself fairly small for the price tag ($16) and the sauce was too sour to be edible.

Fei Zhao
Fei Zhao
★☆☆☆☆ Jan 20, 1970

The service could not be worse and ruder. Brought in two invited visitors, who were not pleased. Hopefully the owner and administration know that they don’t at all represent people at uw-Madison who are kind and professional.

Sai Chaitanya T
Sai Chaitanya T
★★☆☆☆ Jan 20, 1970

If expensive, small portion food is your thing, then this is the place to go.

Farah Ali
Farah Ali
★★★★★ Jan 20, 1970

Stumbled on this place as we were walking back from a meeting and decided to try it out. I ordered the curry bowl and green tea. Absolutely loved the curry bowl. It’s made up of black rice, curried cauliflower, fingerling potatoes, crispy chickpeas, scallion, cilantro, curry dressing. You can have it as a vegan meal or add chicken to it. The curry was so flavorful and I couldn’t stop eating it. The green tea was also so refreshing. I will definitely be back to try other things on the menu.

Amanda Kucinskas
Amanda Kucinskas
★☆☆☆☆ Jan 20, 1970

Food is extremely overpriced and average at best. A slice of quiche was $7.50 and was so salty I didn't finish it. I've tried a few of their sandwiches/bowls as well, which have all been really disappointing. Coffee is okay, but I prefer the unions.

Sam Katerov
Sam Katerov
★★☆☆☆ Jan 20, 1970

Food quality has gone downhill in the past year

Lysmarie Figueroa
Lysmarie Figueroa
★★★★★ Jan 20, 1970

Turkey Avocado Bacon sandwich is the best as well as their coffee!

Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar
★★★★☆ Jan 20, 1970

Good stuff

Klay Liu
Klay Liu
★★★☆☆ Jan 20, 1970

Coffee is good, but their 24oz cold cup is actually only 20oz, I measured with a graduated cylinder

KHALID ALSINAN
KHALID ALSINAN
★★☆☆☆ Jan 20, 1970

This place is good in terms of coffee, but their teas are meh. I once tried their Mediterranean veggie sandwich and it was disgusting. Very overpriced!

Dean Gardner
Dean Gardner
★★★★★ Jan 19, 1970

Great location, friendly staff .

Daniel
Daniel
★★★★★ Jan 19, 1970

Great cold brew!

Jake
Jake
★★★★★ Jan 19, 1970

Great little cafe to stop in when you're on campus!

Faith F
Faith F
★★★★☆ Jan 19, 1970

Not a fan of the menu display as it is hard to see a variety of options. But I ordered a mocha and it was pretty good.

Jackie Ullman
Jackie Ullman
★☆☆☆☆ Jan 19, 1970

In line at 10:58, ordered avocado toast at 11:01 and wasn’t allowed to order because it is considered a breakfast item and it was past 11. You would think you would care more about customer service than 1 minute in the kitchen??? So much for a healthy vegetarian option. I won’t be back.