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Hip, funky spot offers live DJs on weekends and well-executed, San Francisco-style comfort food. Entrees include a satisfying plate of spaghetti (with or without meatballs) and fabulous roast chicken with apple-raisin stuffing. For dessert, try the decadent chocolate almond cake or the Spaghetti Shack Twinkis. Small wine list, full bar.
Yes, they serve 40s (Mickey's or Chimay), but Emmy's also has decadent Italian fare (see the eponymous spaghetti and meatballs), and a nice wine list. It's everything you could ask out of a first-date restaurant -- intimate, dark, and fun, imbued with an unassuming, cozily hip vibe -- but it's too perfectly "first date" to actually go on one here. A first date should be awkward and goofy, and there's no reason to waste Emmy's perfect atmospherics on such a doomed enterprise. It's a... More »
Technically, Emmy's Spaghetti Shack is not an actual shack (the place shares half of the ground floor in a regular building with the El Amigo bar). Still, this homespun bohemian joint feels shantylike at the very least thanks to a corrugated steel ceiling and aprons strung like laundry across the interior of the restaurant. Whether you're looking for a $6.50 plate of spaghetti and a 40-ounce Bud or more sophisticated fare such as pan-roasted halibut or white bean soup with Italian sausage... More »
It didn't take long for my friend Rachel to form an opinion about Emmy's Spaghetti Shack. "This is the coolest restaurant I've been to all year," she declared approximately 30 seconds after we stepped through the door. For Rachel, the deal was... More »
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