It’s true! Miniaturize anything and it instantly becomes cute! Photo: Courtesy of Randy Krause Schmidt
My dad opened Emeril's to be a white tablecloth restaurant that could best represent New Orleans. ... So, we try to keep it very simple and do our best to represent the heritage and the people of New Orleans. ... [If you] choose to come to Emeril's and have dinner, I want you to experience all those things."
— Chef EJ Lagasse, during a Tales of the Cocktail seminar, on the restaurant's culinary philosophy, which he noted is "why you get a very tiny poboy."