Emperor's House Restaurant James Fintan Lalor Avenue, Portlaoise, County Laois

"Lovely food and staff I would return again"

"Staff friendly Asked for Thia red curry got chicken in sweet chillie sauce instead, when I said that's not what I ordered I was told its the same thing big difference as far as I'm concerned So seemly they don't no the difference between Thia red curry and sweet chillie sauce Not well presented Wouldn't recommend and won't eat here again"

"Hey really what can I say it really is a fab place and always yummy food . 10/10"

"I'd eaten here a few time in the past ( maybe 3 years ago) and reccomend it to loads of people. The food was lovely and service very good. However I ate dinner here less than 2 weeks ago and it was a dreadful experience. The restraunt was not busy, maybe 8 people. We were a table of two and had booked. Firstly when we ordered I chose a Thai sweet chilli dish of chichen and vegetables, the menu STATED *mild*, I again asked the waitress before ordering if it was mild. She assured me it was. We then waited 50min to get our food ( I'd booked the restraunt as we had plans for afterwards) . When my dish came out I was immediately put off by it's appearance, and lack of meat, I've NEVER (eat in or take away) had a meat dish with so little meat. The sauce looked so removed from an authentic restraunt made sauce before, I actually ask was the sauce made onsite in the restraunt by a chef. I was told yes. So my dish, in my opinion, didn't contain enought chichen to be called a chicken dish, the vegetables consisted of a bed of onion, and the sauce was not mild, not extremely hot! But not mild, and in my opinion straight from a bottle. The waitress looked embarrassed and apologised for the delay, and I'm assuming the dish. She DID ask if I wanted something else but after the 50 min wait we hadn't time to wait again. All waitresses then avoided our table and disappeared when the bill was to be paid , leaving the person in charge ( who had been told of our dissatisfaction) to deal with the payment. He didn't even ask how our meal was because he knew already it was terrible. Both meals were a disaster, the staff were bringing food to the wrong tables and appeared disinterested,(and out of a table of 4, 3 were finished eating before the 4th GOT their meal). I can't say that all of the food is bad here, I can only comment on our experience, and based on that I WOULD NOT recommend it and will NEVER return."

"Always friendly service, usually top notch food. Every once in a while they give out some dry shredded chicken but it tends to be the exception to the rule."