FreshFin - Madison Hilldale
up to20%Wraps · $$ · College Hills
American Express Gold Card + inKind
inKind20%Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+10 more
49 restaurants in Madison, WI that pay Upside
Upside pays cash back at these restaurants on top of whatever your card earns. Join once, link a card, and pay with it — values below are what each card earns here. Top neighborhoods: State-Langdon (7), Hawthorne (4), and South West Side (4).
49 restaurants
0002 - Little Caesars
up to16%Pizza · Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara
American Express Gold Card + Upside
Upside18%Papa Johns
up to16%Pizza · Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara
American Express Gold Card + Upside
Upside22%Madison's
up to12%American · $ · First Settlement
American Express Gold Card + Upside
Resy creditHilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+10 moreRED
up to12%Japanese · $$ · Downtown
American Express Gold Card + Upside
Resy creditHilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+10 moreBeneBlends
up to12%Healthy · $$ · Far West Side
American Express Gold Card + Upside
Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+9 moreBig Sur Cantina
up to12%Mexican · $$ · Middleton Junction
American Express Gold Card + Upside
Hilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8xEat Around Town6x+9 moreBurger King
up to12%Burgers · Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Yahara
American Express Gold Card + Upside
Upside6%Cadre Restaurant
up to12%French · $$$ · Regent
American Express Gold Card + Upside
Upside6%AAdvantage Dining5xDine Out with Wyndham5x+2 more
- Restaurants
- 49
- Neighborhoods
- 21
- Cuisines
- 29
- Dining programs
- 13
- With a card perk
- 2
The 3 best cards to bring to dinner in Madison
Ranked by what each card earns across this city's restaurants at our point valuations, counting the dining program that pays most at each one. Card credits aren't counted. Upside (49 restaurants) and AAdvantage Dining (29) are the most widespread dining programs here, out of 49 restaurants. American Express Gold Card tops the list here on its own dining rate — ≈$6.00 on a $100 dinner before any program.
American Express Gold Card
$325 annual fee
≈$6.00 on a $100 dinner
Perks at 2 restaurants hereCard details
Chase Sapphire Reserve
$795 annual fee
≈$5.40 on a $100 dinner
Card details
Chase Sapphire Preferred Card
$95 annual fee
≈$5.40 on a $100 dinner
Card details
13 dining programs that pay in Madison
Dining programs pay on top of your card. Join one, link a card, and every meal at a participating restaurant earns twice.
- Upside49 restaurantsUp to 22% back
- AAdvantage Dining29 restaurants1–5 miles per $1
- TrueBlue Dining29 restaurants1–3 points per $1
- Rapid Rewards Dining29 restaurants0.5–3 points per $1
- Eat Around Town28 restaurants4–6 points per $1
- SkyMiles Dining28 restaurants0.5–5 miles per $1
- MileagePlus Dining28 restaurants0.5–5 miles per $1
- Atmos Rewards Dining28 restaurants0.5–5 points per $1
- Hilton Honors Dining28 restaurants2–8 points per $1
- IHG Dine & Earn28 restaurants1–8 points per $1
- Rakuten Dining28 restaurants5% back
- Dine Out with Wyndham27 restaurants1–5 points per $1
- inKind1 restaurant20% back
29 cuisines in Madison
26 neighborhoods in Madison
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Some restaurant addresses, phone numbers, websites and cuisines come from Overture Maps Foundation open data (Meta and Microsoft, CDLA Permissive 2.0; Foursquare, Apache 2.0; AllThePlaces, CC0 1.0). Overture attribution Some neighbourhoods come from Who's On First boundaries (CC-BY 4.0). Who's On First licenses Some opening hours, phone numbers, websites and cuisines are © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). OpenStreetMap copyright