Emperor's House Restaurant — Restaurant in The Municipal District of Portlaoise

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...

Well firstly we got there and collected our order and headed home luckily realised some of our order was missing so went back and collected some more, we spent 42 euro but got no prawn crackers as they had none. When we got home and opened our cold food I realised they had given me the wrong order they had given me a mixed type of mixed curry instead of house special appetisers if that wasn't bad enough there were prawns in it luckily I noticed as I am allergic to them. Rang them and got no apology only excuses saying we messed up order. Anyway I got no dinner and what the others got chicken satay and munch box was not good at all. Very...

I had a table booked the other night for 2..when I got there I was pointed to table and handed menu. My girlfriend got a gin and tonic which was handed to her in a tiny glass with not limes or nothing. The waiter we had wasn't nice to us and I ordered the steak which they then came out with a wrong order and told me it's like the dish I ordered but asked would it be ok as to do it again would take 20 minutes.. Then I had to pay full amount.. Food was lovely but wasn't happy atal with the service and paying full price for something I didn't...