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| - Being a Massachusetts native and having eaten at Emeril's other restaurants in Orlando, Vegas and New Orleans(Commanders Palace when he was there), I wanted to like this place, really I did. Emeril despite his attempts at upscale dining makes food I usually really like. His Cajun/Creole offerings are very good, not Paul Prudhomme good, but close.
So we showed up at this place around 9:30pm on a Fri night, place is half empty. Oh oh, bad sign. I read the Yelp reviews and understood what I was in for, or at least I thought so. Another dumb hostess, seriously do they breed these airheads on a sub off the coast? She says there is a 20 min wait, umm check again we have a reservation and I can see 6 empty tables?!? So we sit down to wait, 5 mins go by and now she is ready to seat us, at one of the 6 empty tables...nooo. She marches us into the area in front of the kitchen door, no lie and points to the table. I don't think so! I tell bubble brain I don't want to sit in front of the kitchen door and point to the 6 empty tables, requesting one of them. "We aren't using them tonight, we don't have a waiter for that section"...wtf?
So great, now we are in the traffic pattern. Its too late to go anywhere else on a Fri night except this dump and eat before 11. Should have gone to Beijing Noodle #9, better food, hotter hostess, no damn kitchen to sit in front of.
Waiter shows up, along with bread, water boy etc and we order. Wedge salad for me, carppacio for my dining companion. Both were good, salad slightly over dressed. I ordered linguine with clams and counterpart ordered diver scallops. Here's where it falls apart. Linguine is over cooked, can't anyone in this town cook pasta? It is a solid ball of gunk, put my fork in it and pick it all up. I signal the waiter who comes over and I demo. He looks at me and says I kid you not, "Is there a problem"? Seriously, he had no idea. I tell the wunderkind that it is over cooked and he says "Oh". I would have laughed if I wasn't so incredulous. So he goes and gets the manager, who at least understands its overcooked. So back it goes, I eat bread and wait and wait and seriously it takes 7 mins to cook pasta, less if its fresh are they farming new clams?
About 15 mins later I get another dish of linguine and clams, but get this, they used the same clams. Including the one that didnt open the first time they cooked it! The diver scallops were ok, nothing great. Dessert was a weird flourless chocolate cake that I have had before elsewhere, but this one was tasteless. Not a hint of chocolate, kept thinking nah its got to be me, but dining companion agreed. How do you make a chocolate cake that is tasteless??
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