is this the Emerils at CityWalk? We were staying at Royal Coconut Palms (or whatever that hotel is in the Universal complex) for an IT convention, four of us were starving... walking around, looking for somewhere to eat, someone picks Emeril's, so we go in to see if they have a table. Not terribly busy, but the "hostess" looked at us as if we had dog pooh on our faces. "You mean you DON'T have a reservation??" she asked stupidly, as we had just asked if they had a table for four. "Well, we usually don't take walk-ins, I will have to check..." she said sneeringly as we looked at her in confusion, wondering why a restaurant would turn down four hungry people when no one was waiting around for a table at 9ish on a Tuesday night, and there were many many tables free. Finally she came back and attempted to seat us at a really crap table by the server station, at which I balked - she got even more foul-tempered when I asked if we could have a nicer table we had walked by. She begrudgingly seated us there, and said - I loved this - "in the future, you might want to think about making reservations if you want to eat at an Emeril's restaurant, ok?" to which a particularly witty member of our group replied, "oh thank you for the tip, but I don't think we'll be dining in another Emeril's again, dearie."

Every single one of our four different entrees was the same shade of brown. Some were runnier than others. We even asked the waiter how he could tell them apart. He said a lot of people asked him that. They even tasted brown.

We decided not to return. Ever. Avoid, please.