Girl in the Food World!: Emeril’s Italian Table

(Outside the Restaurant)

On a recent trip to the Sands Casino in Bethlehem I looked up what restaurants they had and was hoping to try the Carnegie Deli but they are closed on Wednesday which was the day I visited. So I got try Emeril’s Italian Table which was good. I always loved watching Emeril on television when I was little. During the summer my grandmother and I watched the Food Network and back in the day he was one of the starts. That is one of my fondest memories from when I was a child. It was pretty awesome to get to try one of his restaurants, finally. The idea of this restaurant is Italian and it makes you feel that you were at home with just how the restaurant was set up. They offer some rustic ciabetta bread when you first sit down with some regular butter and some garlic butter. The garlic butter is to die for. It has that nice roasted garlic taste to it like the garlic was roasted for hours. The bread was nice and crispy on the outside. I ordered a classic Caesar salad. I love when Caesar Salads have the long romaine leaves on the plate verses being cut up. The best part was the whole anchovies on it which is an essential part of a real classic Caesar salad. The main entrée that I got was of course a pasta dish because I was in a Italian restaurant (Duh!). I ordered the linguine, sausage, clam and rapini pasta which was really good. The sausage was nice and crispy which I love. The linguine was lightly coated in an olive oil and spices sauce which was nice because it wasn’t so heavy. It had a nice balance of heat to it with the sausage and the spices. But the pasta dish was so big that it could have definitely been split between two people. The atmosphere inside is so rustic you feel that you are escaping the everyday flashing lights of a casino. They have a wood oven pizza that is huge which is pretty cool to check out. The other cool part is that they a bar where they slice their cured meats and cheeses.