Emma’s Downtown

From reading the reviews, I may be one of the few people who really digs this place. The service can be iffy but I always enjoy the pizza, prices are decent and for a local place I dig it.

Went for 99 cent pizza night and couldn’t get pizza because my friend wasn’t 21. Unreal considering I’ve been to cheap pizza night before and never have gotten carded FOR PIZZA. Their loss considering we were going to get appetizers and fries also. I don’t recommend Emmas, the waitresses are subpar anyways. I’m a poor college student and would rather pay $ 10 for a pizza than ever go back to Emma’s.

Compaired to the emmas resturaunt. I prefer this one. I think they are MUCH faster then the one on 104. THE food was pretty good and i just like this one better.

I like the bar style pizza. It’s cheap and good. Decent bar, low prices, lots of tv’s. What’s the problem? Only one I can see is lack of parking at this location. Been to the other locations and it’s not an issue at those two, only at this one. But otherwise all three are fine for what they are, i. e decent suburban pubs you can have a good pizza and watch a game or play keno or whatever.

Awful… just like the other Emma dumps. Got the .99 cheapo pizza and it was horrible. It was do bad I couldn’t even eat it. I didn’t want to waste it so I figured I’d take it home and shingle my bird house with it… when I asked for a box I was told you are not allowed to take the promo pizzas home… what a friggen joke.
Good news was I didn’t blow grass clippings out of my ass this time from their food or dirty beer lines.

Although Emma’s by route 24 is usually OK, I won’t return to Emma’s downtown.
My son had to reorder his burger – although we were the only eating customers in the restaurant at the time.
It was SUCH a bother to the bartender Tammy to wait on us – which took her away from her convo with the bearded guy at the bar.
SORRY to have asked you to do your job, bia-​tch!

This is now Emma’s Downtown. I’m still a little skeptical of the food, because I’ve only had one (bad) meal so far, and also because I was there when it had the Emma’s sign out front but was still O’Brien’s. Someone ordered chicken fingers and the bartender turned around and cooked it right there using the frialator behind the bar! That’s all changed of course since they’ve finally gone through with the full renovation and have a wraparound bar in the middle of the room. But I didn’t like how they had the sign out front for so long while it was clearly still operating as O’Brien’s. I even overheard the bartender telling some regulars how a family with little kids walked in and sat down thinking it was Emma’s and when she explained to them the whole hot dog/​chicken finger behind the bar thing they decided to get up and go somewhere else (to the relief of both parties involved I’m sure!).
It definitely still gets the O’Brien’s crowd– the same regulars are there at the bar– but it will be interesting to see if that changes in the long-​run now that it’s an Emma’s establishment.
I noticed one of the bartenders from the Rte. 104 location was working as manager so that was reassuring. He was always really nice and on top of things.
Usually we’ll just go there for drinks, but we were there most recently for the $ 0.99 Cheese Pizza deal. I forget what night of the week it is, but you can get them after 8:00, and only at the bar. There are plenty of other good things on the Emma’s menu that I would have rather gotten but I decided to be economical and just get a small cheese pizza since it was so cheap. Once it arrived I realized why it was so cheap– they must use lower-​quality ingredients so they don’t lose money on the deal. The pizzas served for this promotion are NOT the same as the regular pizza (which is really good– although very cheesy). It reminded me of school lunch pizza where the cheese is all dry and crusty on top. It was so gross I could only eat two small slices. My boyfriend doesn’t care of course– so I let him have the rest.
Oh and they have weird rules about this promo– you can’t take the left-​overs home, and you can’t take any of them To-​Go.
I have to give credit to the bartender because she was really nice and even though she had obnoxious drunken college students to deal with, she was still pleasant to me and my boyfriend.
Even if you don’t order the $.99 Cheese Pizza promo on these nights (which I recommend you don’t!) it’s still worth going to witness the hysteria. I saw probably 50+ cheese pizzas come out of the kitchen throughout the course of the evening. I guess if you’re drunk enough it doesn’t matter if the promo pizzas use low-​quality ingredients.

If you’re looking for a fight, you can usually find it at O’Briens.