Madison's is more than just a bar with a long Martini menu and a few appetizers. The kitchen here is capable of putting out a full-course dinner as well as a fine lunch.

At midday, or for a light dinner, the sliced marinated skirt steak sandwich is juicy and flavorsome. The Maryland crab cake is plump and virtually all crab and mayonnaise. The roster of entrees runs the gamut from eggplant rollatini to pork osso buco.

The place offers live entertainment on weekends to a crowd that's mostly over 40.

One dish, an appetizer, inspires curiosity: "barbecued pork wings." Do pigs fly? On a good night, one would imagine, after a few Martinis, they just might.