In addition to giving neighbors in the area a celebration of good food and drink, Saturday night’s Hillside Harvest Festival at Madison’s BottleNeck Lounge marked a reflective moment for Josh Henderson and the folks behind Skillet Street Food, Inc. as they get ready to open Skillet Diner on Capitol Hill in 2011:
3 yrs ago we were 2 months old, and the bottleneck lounge on cap hill took a chance on this fledgling street food biz and had us show up for their 1st annual harvest festival….it was nuts…. So here we are 3 years later and both are going strong. The bottleneck lounge will always hold a special place in skillet’s heart…stop by and show some love to the folks at the bottleneck..they are tops in our book!…
Skillet Diner will occupy retail suite 102 in the Chloe building at 14th and Union.
The rain probably kept folks away. We showed up just after 7. Bottleneck was crowded, but Skillet never had much of a line. Sad for Skillet, good for us. The Burger is amazing.
I was there from 4:30 until 8:00. When Skillet opened up at 5:00 the completely full bar (standing room only) almost emptied and nearly every person there got something to eat. There was never a really long line because of the rain, but almost everyone got something from Skillet.