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  • ShaeShae
    ShaeShae  Local Star   76 reviews
    I had high expectations for Emmilou, but walked away rather disappointed. It was a very strange experience, from start to finish. We had a table of 11 for a girl's dinner/birthday and organised for the group set menu, $50 per head.
    The service, both by our waiter (who either seemed like it was his first night or that he was off with the fairies) and the bar staff was extremely poor. A bottle of wine was requested with 5 glasses, our waiter then started pouring a glass for the whole table. It took at least 20 minutes for drinks to arrive to our table, the last two bottles were actually never delivered - they had closed up the bill but hadn't informed us.
    The five dishes that come as part of the tapas menu were pretty bland, zucchini flowers and croquettes - sounded nice but weren't anything to write home about. The last dish (a salad) never landed on our table.
    I think if the service had been different, the experience could have been much, much better so perhaps they were just having a rough night with staffing.

    1 year ago

  • doh
    doh   6 reviews
    Great position to be seen. Casual seating outside with a great ambience. Stop off for a lazy cocktail.

    1 year ago via TrueLocal for iPhone

  • AM-ak
    AM-ak   4 reviews
    Great looking little tapas bar. Really nice funky vibe. Defiantly has a Melbourne feel to it. Mocktail was really yummy. The food was unusual and not like traditional tapas but still enjoyable very tasty and unique. Funky reggae music playing in the background sets a nice mood and atmosphere is very laid back. Really cool location and space- great for people watching.

    1 year ago via TrueLocal for iPhone

  • yellow
    yellow   6 reviews
    Have walked past this place many times without going in and always wanted to check it out. I wasn't disappointed. The nice relaxing front is perfect to sit down and relax for abit while enjoying their cocktails and tapas.

    1 year ago via TrueLocal for iPhone

  • localjay
    localjay   3 reviews
    Great location and cosy little place. Perfect for a snack and a drink - they do an excellent lychee an mint fizz. Recommended - and friendly service too!

    1 year ago via TrueLocal for iPhone

  • AMaloney66
    AMaloney66   5 reviews
    Tapas and cocktails - what a superb combination to wile away a steamy Sydney afternoon. Lychee and vodka cocktail, deep fried quail egg served on a bed of sweetcorn, zucchini flowers stuffed with goats cheese, the smooth tones of a girl who had been done wrong by the one she loved and great service. A little put off by the Unisex toilets but I'm tipping they would be a lot of fun when this place is full and buzzing.

    1 year ago via TrueLocal for iPhone

  •   16 reviews
    Stopped in for some cocktails this afternoon, had a great time out on the terrace! A perfectly made Mint Julep with some prosciutto, crispy zucchini flowers stuffed with truffle honey and some cracking deep fried quail eggs is not a bad way to pass the time on a Wednesday afternoon. Add in the friendly service and emmilou gets 2 thumbs up from me.

    1 year ago via TrueLocal for iPhone

  • adamlocal
    adamlocal   2 reviews
    Love the cocktails and the bathroom that is floor To ceiling mirrors!

    1 year ago via TrueLocal for iPhone

  • jayathekke
    jayathekke   3 reviews
    Great place to be...Loved the ambience and friendly service. The drinks come at reasonable price. I would give it a thumbsup!

    1 year ago via TrueLocal for iPhone

  • siros
    siros   18 reviews
    Nice neat restaurant, good tunes, friendly staff and and make great cocktails.. Really cool place to chill out and soak in the Darlinghurst vibe...

    1 year ago via TrueLocal for iPhone

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  • Emmilou

    Simon Thomsen

    Tuesday, March 25, 2008

    This restaurant-bar has promise but strives too hard to push into the fine-dining arena.

    The bottom of Emmilou's menu thoughtfully advises that "not all ingredients are mentioned, please alert your waiter if you have any religious or dietary requirements". What the menu does mention is pig. A lot of it. Jamon, pork hock, chorizo, wild boar, pork belly. You'll find it in some form in many of the five entrees and five mains from the a la carte menu and in seven of the 16 tapas. As much as I'm a porcine aficionado, even I think it's too much. Sure, it underpins a lot of the Spanish cooking chef Chris Cranswick-Smith is influenced by, but this is pig as stalker, turning up everywhere, often unnecessarily, including in an entree of veal sweetbreads with shredded ham hock, prawns and cauliflower beignets. It's all so artfully arranged around the plate but the end result is like a singles' dating night where none of the ingredients knows how to start a conversation with each other. The dish is symptomatic of Cranswick-Smith's try-too-hard approach, which presents ingredi...

    Source: Sydney Morning Herald

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    Lissa Christopher

    Tuesday, February 12, 2008

    The most obvious thing the newish tapas bar and restaurant is missing is customers.

    Some Sydney bars are like Johnny Depp: handsome and talented, they have broad and enduring appeal. The Victoria Room in Darlinghurst is a Depp-ish establishment. Others are like Sean Penn: talented, a bit nasty, nose and face like an axe jammed in a chunk of driftwood but bewitching nonetheless. The Judgement Bar, upstairs at the Courthouse Hotel in Darlinghurst, is bit of a Penn. Then there are the Brad Pitts: good-looking, talented, everything technically in place but (for my tastes, anyway) missing a certain something. And so we come to Emmilou. The most obvious thing the newish tapas bar and restaurant is missing is customers. The evening I visited - a madly windy Wednesday - my drinking buddy and I were the only ones there between roughly 6.30 and 8.30pm. Ioannis Benardos, Emmilou's adaptable manager, mixologist and waiter, puts the empty tables down to Sydney being "dead every January" but I suspect other factors are also at play. Emmilou opened as recently as October. I...

    Source: Sydney Morning Herald

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