Deak’s Pub and Grill

Excellent menu, great quality food and prepared to perfection. My favorite burger joint.

If you are thinking about, do it! Gas station attendant recommended. We laughed a little pulling in thinking: one and done. Nope do not judge a book by its cover! We had the salmon pinwheels, wings and poppers. I have no idea what I liked best. All excellent. Lots of Friday fish coming out of the kitchen. Must be great too. Service was great. Lots of staff.

So this is a seat your self place. Which is actually kinda nice. They have lots of tv’s going with different sports to watch. The soup was amazing and best of all made in house. The steak was perfectly done only problem was it wasn’t seasoned well :(but cut was excellent just a slight amount of fat on the edge and good marbling to keep the meat nice and tasty. The grilling was a perfect searing. The servers where very pleasant and helpful in making a dinner selection. When traveling through this is a must stop for food.

Interesting lunch this PM, sat at bar and waitress took our order, pretty much never saw her again except she had to be tracked down for us to get our check. Ordered meal and it took a far amount of time considering they weren’t busy. Got our food, nothing special and then proceeded to watch a couple of waitresses just hanging out in an area that is marked no loitering unless you are there to get food from the kitchen. One waitress is busy working and 2 others just bullshitting ignoring all the customers.

Friday Night Fish Fry is amazing. We had great food and great service. I recommend the Fried Cod with slaw and fries.

Our first visit to Deak’s in Stoughton, WI, on a February early Friday afternoon was a very nice surprise. The place looks very clean, as were the restrooms. A long bar with high wooden tables around the perimeter for meals features a quite extensive menu with reasonably priced salads, wraps, sandwiches, burgers & meals (a step above the usual pub food), plus they’ve got a good selection of micro/​specialty brews on tap (about a dozen). We both ordered the pulled pork sandwich which they slow cook over night; it was ½ pound of finely shredded, extremely tender, not dry pork with not a bit of fat anywhere in it (hats off to the chef for the excellent trimming) that comes with a choice of 4 different sauces, on a nice Kaiser-​type roll. My wife got a good-​sized side of tasty, creamy coleslaw that came with the sandwich (1 of 3 choices); instead of the chips as my side, for $ 1 extra, I opted for the (endless) fries which they cut & make here — a generous portion which were actually make perfectly per my request: browned & crispier than normal. Our young server, Kyra, was exceptional, knowledgeable about questions we had, and checked back with us often to make sure everything was going well. We will definitely be back there when we are in the area.

Like the food. Good beer selection for a small town. The fish fry is worth the trip. Hand made cheese curds and poppers. The waitress was great but the bartender was not friendly. Guessing because it wasn’t her costumer so she didn’t care? Though she had enough time for her phone.

If you are not concerned with atmosphere, this is the place. THey have everything else covered. Great food, friendly service and a pretty good drink selection! Check it out!!!

Easily my favorite place in the Madison area to eat. The fish fry is top notch. The cheese curds are solid. And they have, hands down, the best Cuban sandwich in the area. I probably go once a week just for that Cuban. Also, try the Bucky Burger – it’s like the Fresno burger at Hardee’s, but you know – good. And tasty.
If they’re packed, the kitchen can get a little slow. But, I’ll forgive them because the food is that good.

We just went to Deak’s for dinner tonight. The staff was super friendly and the service was good, but the food really wasn’t that great. I doubt we will eat there again, the food was mediocre at best. There are lots of people who visit Deak’s so others must really love it… we will leave the place to them. :)

I have to apologize for forgetting our bartender’s name. For the three hours we were there and she was entertaining us, that’s my fault. Boo.
Anyway, Deak’s isn’t exactly reinventing the wheel here. It’s a bar with tv’s, a pool table, happy hour and standard bar menu at typical pricing. The four of us piled through some late night eating as I worked on upping my alcohol intake while home on leave.
We did the chips and salsa, which were really good (a giant bowl of thick salsa is always welcome) and the app sampler (huge plate of breaded fried things, chips, salsa and bruschetta) to start. Pretty huge, tasted like it may have been breaded there (as opposed to something straight from the Sysco freezer) and didn’t take long.
We also ordered sandwiches, which is the part that made me really like our bartender. I asked her opinion on which would be the best choice between the club melt or the cuban. I always like cuban sammiches, but, we’re at a bar in Stoughton, so, who knows? She made a face about the cuban and said it was too much pork in one sandwich (blasphemy, right?) and said she liked the club better. So, I got the club, Stacy got a chicken thing, we all had a laugh and giant discussion about the merits of different meats, and forgot about it once the apps came.
Then the sammies came out, and she had to apologize. In her intense dislike of the cuban, she had ordered that and the club instead of Stacy’s chicken thing. Our friend Mel thought that should mean I’d get a taste of the cuban at least, since they’d made it (but didn’t bring it out) and I said that, working in a kitchen, that it’d be devoured by staff most likely. But no, our bartender wrapped it to go for me as a bonus. How nice of her!
Take that, plus her knowing which taps I wanted to try before I asked (which was a pretty cool trick) and her patience with our friend’s fascination with cherry bombs and inappropriate sexual discussions, and know that I genuinely like this place. It’s the first time I’ve been there, but I’ll definitely be back.

Great selection of brew. Also pretty decent food. Staff is always nice. Breakfast here is great and inexpensive!

This place is hiding! It’s definitely worth trying out. I was worried it was just another «Sports Bar,» but it’s a nice little pub with super fresh, delicious, and low cost food. Our waitor said that the owner’s wife is into gourmet healthy food and she sprinkled a few yummy items on the menu. The drinks are awesome too, expected, but the food was an unexpected surprise. I’d give it 5 stars if they had someplace cozy to sit, like booths, but still it’s an awesome place. Good service too!

Just went here for fish last Friday. My wife enjoyed her cod and I had the perch, which I also thought was pretty tasty. Also, the serving size of the perch is immense – 5 pieces for $ 11.99, pretty good deal if you ask me!

A fun place to hang out in a very small town! If you go for dinner, ask for Cortney! :)

Tucked away behind Culver’s off Hwy 51, this little building is home of the best Greek chicken salad I’ve ever had. I kid you not. Paying just homage to «bar and grill», it gets both parts right every time. Their Friday fish fry is a huge draw, and now that it’s smoke-​free (not to start something, just sayin), we’ll be heading down there much more often to get our drink on.

***Update*** Original review below in quotes, update to follow that.
«Great family friendly pub with a wonderful staff and good food. There are also plenty of TV’s for catching a game. I absolutely love the place.
They would get 5 stars if they had a better burger but everything else is pretty solid.»
Deak’s now has fresh chuck! Their burgers are 100% improved. The kitchen is getting used to the new meat but they will get it down soon. I had one of their new burgers last Saturday and even though my medium-​rare request came out medium-​well, the burger was juicy and tasted fantastic.
Thanks Deak’s!

I’ve had lunch here several times and usually order a salad and have not been disappointed. Colleagues have ordered burgers and sandwiches and have always been pleased.
The down side is, unless you have an unusually long lunch hour you do not have time to eat lunch here. It takes a long time to place an order, a long time to get food, and a long time to get the check and make payment.
Today I placed a phone order thinking that would save some time. I was first put on hold for nearly 5 minutes before being able to place the order. When someone was finally able to take my order they were impolite and had great difficulty getting a simple order correct.
If you are in Stoughton and have plenty of time try it out, if time is of the essence take a pass.
Update: This restaurant is under new management since the original review. I have been there a few times since the switch and they have really picked up the pace in service and have also refined the menu. The food has been great and the service has been speedy.