Emeril’s Fish House (April 2018) - Good Meal, Nice Surroundings
My spouse and I dined at Emeril’s Fish House for
dinner on a Sunday evening in mid-April 2018. We had tickets to see a concert
at the Sands Bethlehem Event Center, and the Fish House was the closest
restaurant to the venue. Emeril’s Fish House is open for dinner daily. You can make a reservation using the online Open Table
system.
Emeril’s Fish House is located off the casino floor at the Sands Casino in
Bethlehem. It is possible to reach the restaurant without entering the casino
if you use the hallway that leads from the Sands Hotel past the Event Center
and up the escalators behind the shopping outlet mall. For this reason, we
prefer the Fish House to Buddy V’s, Emeril’s Burgers and More (BAM), Emeril’s
Chophouse, and Chopstix; all of which require patrons to enter the restaurants
from the casino. The Fish House first opened in April 2016 (later remodeled in
April 2017) in the space previously occupied by Emeril’s Italian Table.
The Fish House offers a raw bar in the front (near where the old door to
the Italian Table was located). Behind and adjacent to the L-shaped raw bar are
regular-height individual tables and high-top communal tables. The door to the
Fish House is located in the middle of the restaurant, near the drinks bar that
also offers comfortable bar seating. (The drinks bar is positioned were the
salumi counter was located at the Italian Table.) The back half of the
restaurant contains individual tables in all shapes and configurations,
including some that share banquette seating on one side. Marble bar tops, stone
pillars and walls, and dark wood complete the décor. On the restaurant
exterior, bright blue door shutters offer a pleasant decorative (but not
functional) touch.
Emeril’s Fish House serves seafood, pasta, steak, pork, and chicken, some menu
items have a Louisiana Creole spin. We enjoyed sampling the bread basket filled
with tiny jalapeno corn muffins, yeasty rolls, and yummy butter while we waited
for our appetizer, the pork belly steamed buns (served three to an order, with
pork and pickled cucumber piled atop the fluffy bread). For our entrees, we
ordered the delicious miso-glazed scallops, served with bok choy and fried rice (which included two substantial slices
of pork). Our second entree was less successful, a vegetarian Mediterranean
bucatini pasta with artichoke hearts, roasted peppers, mushrooms, grape
tomatoes tossed in a basil pesto. Service was a bit slow, and we had to depart
before we could sample the banana cream pie that we had looked forward to trying.
We enjoyed our dinner at
Emeril’s Fish House, and we plan to return to try some of the other interesting
menu options.
