Forage Kitchen in Madison

There is barely any parking unless you are willing to walk blocks or worse yet, pay for parking.

Delicious and filling bowls. Perfect for a healthy lunch. Lots of vegetarian and vegan options.

Outstanding healthy meal options that are filling and easily customizable. The space has high ceilings and feels very clean and open. Many of the menu options include meat by default but can easily have tofu substituted to make them vegan or vegetarian. Definitely a place I’d like to visit again.

Loved our bowls, the perfect place for delicious and nutritious lunch on a hot day. The hummus on my Club Med bowl was amazing, and my dad liked the black rice and Thai dressing on his cashew bowl. Their kombucha is a great accompaniment to a bowl! Fast service and solid prices, too.

Everything is great except for you have a 50% shot at the lentil meatballs having the texture of old concrete.

Awesome!! Yummy, healthy & great locally sourced food!

I love this place a lot. But last time I was there, the rice was so hard that I almost broke my teeth. A bit tragic.

Very delicious ingredients and decent size portions. But please give us our salt and pepper back. It is a salad bar for gods sake!

I was craving a salad after a 10K run and this really hit the spot! I tried the Club Med bowl with lentil meatballs added. I really wish they had this restaurant where I live!

Great build your own salad, roasted chicken was delicious as always! Adorable atmosphere and super great staff!

if there was a place id wish would be local to me all the time - itd be forage kitchen. such tasty, healthy, feel-good rice bowls ! i get black anciet rice w chicken/tofu, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, corn, roasted fennel, and idk i try all their sauces with, its soo good 10/10

First time here for lunch. Amazing Club Med Bowl and Local Roots Salad! Great lunch spot for our visit to Madison. Clean and great service. Highly recommend.

Loved loved loved eating from here but am absolutely heart broken now that my favorite order (Caesar salad w the bomb vegan dressinghas been discontinued/changed beyond recognition

Food is great & so is service .... BUT they changed portion size and I feel like my bowl is half empty! :( I get trying to save $$ .. but in my opinion it would be better to just raise price of food and give a good amount.

Food is awesome. However, my partner and I will often order the same bowl and they will default to make them in the same bowl. Makes sense it is the same kind of bowl and a convenient time saving measure. BUT when we sit down to eat, all of the sweet potatoes will be in one bowl while the other is very heavy rice and few potatoes etc. please make it a company policy to mix each bowl separately. It super annoying that I have to ask every time.

I wanted to try something healthier than the usual food I eat. Came here and expected something just okay, but I truly loved this more than my regular Qdoba or Chipotle. It was extremely tasty and fresh. I got the power bowl with chicken…the combination of the fresh guac with black fresh rice, DELICIOUS sweet potato cubes, and other fresh ingredients was top tier. I dont like kombucha but decided to give it a try again. Was pretty tasty and just has that typical fermented taste I have to get used to. A little expensive but I ate it for lunch and dinner because the serving was so big, evened out the price.(oh, and one super awesome thing about my dish was it came cold-ish…so no reheating needed as a leftover!!)

10/10 this spot is literally the best. I wish this was in every state!!You can order however you want and they mix everything together (if you wantright then and there for you. They also have a great menu with a lot of options already created for you if you dont want a custom salad bowl.

Deliciousssss!! I love coming here for good healthy, locally grown, vegan options. I’ve had the Thai bowl, a Tex-mex style bowl, and a few create your own and I’ve never been disappointed. Nice people and quick service.

First time eating here. Ordered take out. Was ready when I arrived even though they were super busy. Food was amazing! I had the Thai Bowl with tofu and also tried a bite of the power bowl. Both were delicious. Super filling! Ill be back, this place is a smorgasbord for vegans. Yum!

Amazing food, healthy, not to pricey, and very fresh and delicious. Take your time ordering as there are alot of options. Fish taco bowl was very good!

So awesome! Traveling through Madison and found this gréât place. Each band member had great options, everyone was happy. Healthy and fresh food options, filing and vegetarian. Hard to keep a healthy lifestyle on the road, places like this make it so easy and delicious! Come to NOLA!

One of the better options near campus. We had a salad and a grain bowl, each of which was pretty good. Price is reasonable, crew were friendly and food prepared quickly enough.

I used to love this place until they started getting beyond stingy with their portion sizes. I asked for spinach in my bowl. The employee gave me about 3 pieces, so I asked for more. I got charged 50 cents extra for another 3 pieces. I can’t believe I spent so much money on so little food. I am disappointed :(

We have ordered from Forage many times, and it is a hit or miss. Sometimes youll get a tasty bowl with fresh ingredients, sometimes youll get garbage. On one occasion, we got delivered half of the normal portions with bunch of sauce added like soup to hide the lack of ingredients. We thought this was a one-off, and decided to order again after some time. Today we had fiesta bowls, which were made without the cheddar cheese that is supposed to be part of them. The salsa sauce was mixed into mine to hide the flavor of ingredients that were not fresh. We also ordered guac on the side. While the color of it looked fine, it certainly went bad, as it tasted fermented. Never ordering from there again. They are still in business because this is Madison and there is not much competition. I wonder how long this is going to last though.

This place reminded me of Boston, MA eateries. Healthy options highly customizable, healthy if you care what you put into your body and how you feel after you eat. They brew their own kombucha and offer most delicious seasonal ginger lemonade that reminded me of popular drink in Singapore. Fresh concept for Madison and honest ingredients. Always fresh every time we order. Absolutely recommend to give it a try.

Never been to the place before and ordered online. I just wanted to try something new besides the usual curry I get from other places and I noticed they had this Thai bowl. Honestly the best option to make. I added on some cashews along with some extra cilantro and egg and OMG, my mind has been blown. The flavors in this bowl were super savory and tasty, I might just order this again. Thanks for the flavor experience! Delivery was also quick too. Cant be disappointed.

Great idea and not a particularly great execution. The tomato soup tasted like it had been on the warmer for 2 or 3 days. The warm bowls were hardly warm. The portions were quite small considering the price. Everything seemed to be weighed out to the half ounce and the dishes lacked any form of inspiration or care. Ill give it one more try and if things arent improved Ill just chalk it up to a very mediocre experience.

Thai bowl is my favorite or add the lentil “meatballs” to anything and you won’t be disappointed. The ‘booch is pretty stellar, but not a fan of the peach personally. Doesn’t mean it’s bad, just not my cup of tea. You’re probably gonna spend around $12-15 on lunch but you won’t be hungry and the food is great. If you want something cheap and lousy go to McDonalds and get your salad.

Great high-quality locally sourced food. You can taste the freshness and everything. The staff are very efficient but friendly at the same time the State Street location is more of a in and out spot due to the high number of college kids coming in and out to get food. There is an much seating but it’s still very nice inside. Highly recommend for anyone looking for great local fresh food.

Great food, by all means! Hands down the best quick service salad in Madison. However, the guy who made my bowl the past time had huge shaggy dreadlocks that should have been covered in a hair net.

Just had a great bowl from here. Prices are totally reasonable for the quantity of food you get and the ingredients were delicious. Would recommend! (Especially the bacon, makes an otherwise very healthy meal taste like a dream.)

Such a great lunch spot! Delicious salads and grain bowls, local and well-sourced ingredients, at a good price. The kombucha didnt impress as much as I had hoped, but it was still good.

I go to the downtown Forage once a week, and always get the power bowl with extra sweet potatoes. Usually the quantity is consistent and the size of a the bowls are very large; I am never left wanting. However I was near Hilldale and thought I’d stop into the new Hilldale Forage. The person working made two power bowls at once instead of making the two separately, and initially I thought she was only making one because the portion sizes she was adding were so measly! She then divided them into two bowls that were pathetically small, nothing like the normally robust bowls I get downtown. They were about a 1/4 the size of the downtown bowls, and obviously had none of the extra sweet potatoes I had paid for. I was left hungry and supremely disappointed.

Forage Kitchen catering came through for me in a pinch! I emailed their catering email at 7:30pm on Sunday for a 14 person order. They responded within 2 hours confirming they could make the order AND deliver it the next day at 11:30am. I honestly was expecting and preparing to have to pick it up, if we even got the food at all! They sent me the invoice via email link right before they delivered and I realized I forgot my card at home, I was able to pay later in the evening after I got home, I appreciate their flexibility. You guys rock and I so appreciate everything you did for me today. I will definitely order with you guys in the future. Food was fresh and delicious, everyone loved it!!

Ordered a Thai bowl with chicken. When I got it, it did not have chicken. Paid $15 for something I didn’t order. E-mailed the restaurant and they said I would get a refund, but never got it. I used to order from them a lot and was very happy with their food, after this they lost my confidence. Really upset over this.

Went here at 11am to grab a late breakfast. Walked in and it smelt like rotten food. There were 8 employees working and none said hello when we walked in. I was also the only customer in the store. Ordered a smoothie and it took the 8 employees 20 minutes to make it. They watered the plants and hung out in the back room for several minutes before they decided to make my over priced smoothie. Terrible service.

I had some of the Green Tea smoothie and ended up tossing it. It tasted wrong somehow. It didnt have any green juice or tea taste at all. Maybe whoever made it that day didnt make it correctly? Not sure I would try it again. I didnt get any salad but boy they sure make and give you a HUGE amount in a large bowl. Then they charge you a ridiculous amount of 10 or $11. I thought healthy places are also about healthy portions. Each bowl is easily 2-3 portions, maybe 4. I am sure most salads end up unfinished and tossed. They should give us the option of bowl sizes.

Was looking for somewhere to eat that was healthy and Im so happy I found Forage Kitchen! Absolutely delicious food and great portions! Im a 200 Lb guy and as I look at the last of this bowl I dont know if I can eat! Haha but I will because its delicious! Had a great experience with the staff as well! Will definitely be back!

Couldn’t be more pleased with my first experience at Forage Kitchen! The girl at the counter was super patient while I took my time choosing among all the great ingredients. Huge salad portion for dinner, everything fresh and tasty. Ordered the tempeh as a protein and honestly wish I could have tempeh every single day now! Only critique I could give is that the kombucha was just OK... not “boochy” (funky/acidenough to my taste.

Delicious make your own salads. Im happy I found this place because after several days of eating poorly on the road I wanted a good wholesome healthy meal. I got it here. Outdoor seating is available. Some add ons are not displayed like almonds. You have to ask. I also got the ginger lemonade, very good but I regret buying the locally made dark chocolate. The amount of chocolate was deceivingly small compared to the outrageous $6 price, which was not displayed. My mistake agreeing to the purchase nonetheless.

One of the best, if not the best, salads I have ever had. The fruits and vegetables are so fresh and delicious and the place is very clean. They also have outside setting if you want to enjoy the fresh air.

Best wholesome healthy food around. However, you need to watch closely if you order anything special. Today I ordered "no cilantro" on my fiesta bowl, but she piled it on anyway. I live 45 minutes away, so not possible to take it back. So I painstakingly removed it with a tweezers, but it was too late. The flavor had permeated the rest of the items and I couldnt eat it. Funny thing is she questioned whether or not I wanted tempe, which I never mentioned. Yet she messed up on the cilantro. Everyone makes mistakes, so just watch. Hands down the best food for the money, love the ginger lemonade too!!!!

I stopped in after a bit of pushing, and Im glad I finally did. The food was great, the bowls sizable, and the staff is super friendly and helpful. It was way better than I expected, and much more than just a "salad place". They also make and sell their own cans of kombucha and bottles of other fruit drinks. I will absolutely return.

I had the Thai Grain bowl and ginger lemonade. my dining companion pad one of the green and salad ones. Going in, we were concerned if the meals would be filling enough. Leaving, there was absolutely no question they were filling. I would happily go back anytime- especially since they have vegetarian and vegan options.

Absolutely delish! A healthy gem. $10 got me a massive grain bowl (power bowl with a handful of mixed greens), another $4 for fantastic kombucha. Flavors with a punch! Might be out of students price range for daily trips, but certainly worth the value, and a great surprise for a visitor.

Love this place! When you need something delicious and green, come here. I love the fresh, high quality, unique ingredients. Eating here is pretty casual. I usually make my own salad but the curated salads always sound super good.

Quickly became one of my go-to locations around town. The salads are fantastic, and the acai bowls are incredible. The atmosphere is chill and the staff are friendly. Feel like you need some extra energy - get your fresh fruits and veggies here on the run ^.^

This is how vegetarians can eat out without consuming a bunch of unhealthy carbs. Everything is so fresh and tasty and perfectly seasoned...just like how I would prepare my own food at home. I loved my first meal there and plan to come back often.

I didnt know what to expect when I went inside of Forage Kitchen, but it was phenomenal!!! Their food was absolutely amazing, and I would definitely go there. Additionally, they home make everything in their which gives such amazing flavor!The food might be healthy, but dont mistake that for tasteless! Their food has a lot of flavor and was really filling!The staff was phenomenal and very patient while I spent a while being indecisive about what I wanted.

Dont get me wrong, the food is really quite good... But the place is always over-full, and once I had to eat standing, because all the seating was taken. Clearly, the owners didnt invest in the right space for this eatery. Its always packed. Service is so-so, but one in three of the employees Ive encountered is really pleasant, and the other two would rather be somewhere else. Theyre competent, but this is fast-paced assembly-line salad bowls. Overall, Id like to do them as takeout, but theyre too far from home. I dread dining here, but there are so many awesome dishes, that I keep trying, and being disappointed with the facility itself.