Emperador Elias Restaurant
Emperador Elias Restaurant
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
4 reviews
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I love Spanish food, and if I am ever in the mood for another hearty meal, I am definitely coming back to Emperador Elias! First off, the restaurant is so nice and authentic looking inside. It is great for a lunch or dinner date. I came here for lunch to dine in, but I noticed a lot of people ordering food to go in their buffet area.
The service was extremely slow here and it wasn't very busy. I noticed our waitress going back and forth behind the bar eating chicken legs…I guess we came during her lunch break.
I ordered the Shrimp Stuffed Crabmeat. Each meal comes with white or yellow rice and beans. I got the white rice with beans. The meal also comes with a salad! It was so much food. The four shrimp and crabmeat were all so fresh and delicious. The rice and beans were a meal on its own due to how big the portion size was.
My friend ordered the Flounder with yellow rice and beans. The yellow rice was definitely the better choice! Both of our meals were wonderful; however, we both agreed that they were a bit too salty.
Still…the food here is incredible and I highly recommend anyone to try it out! I would love to come back here one day!
The two-block strip of Broadway underneath the Marcy Avenue J stop has repelled the rapid gentrification of the surrounding neighborhood almost completely. The restaurants and fast-food places here are either fast food chains and Puerto Rican, Dominican and Mexican counters reflecting the population that lives in the aging apartments that look over the subway.
The name 'El Emperador Elias' is likely a reference to an early Franciscan who eventually defected to the Holy Roman Emperor and was excommunicated by Pope Gregory. Eventually you have to imagine that places like this will get expelled from the region to the further, as-yet still Latino sections of Brooklyn.
But for now, stop by on a weeknight around 6 or 7 and see a thriving business of full roasted chickens heading upstairs, along with plates of mofongo and hearty island stews. A beer or two – this doesn't seem to be the place to drink to excess – is nursed at the bar, perhaps with just a small snack.
The larger back area "the restaurant," is quieter with large booths and a couple of common tables. A larger menu is served at the back, with several menu pages full of chops, pasta dishes and steak. Ignore these. This is a throwback of an unwelcome kind, the neighborhood restaurant that serves an undistinguished, "haute" Continental cuisine.
There's no need to order any of this when there are world-class pasta places, steakhouses and French restaurants within a mile, many of which have similar entrees at similar price points, only orders of magnitude better.
Sticking to more traditional Puerto Rican and Dominican fare will yield better results, with plump and moist chicken. The singularly satisfying thing was the simplest – a huge plate of white rice that came on separate plate from my main course. It was wonderfully rich, with a healthy dollop of butter mixed in before serving. This is the comfort food I hope this area never loses.
I have gotten lunch here on a sporadic level different times since they are conveniently located near the J train station. I am glad that they have a $5 lunch special and have such a great selection of food ranging from chicken, salmon, various vegetables and delicious soups. They give you a nice size prion of food for the $5 dollar lunch special.
"Just OOOKK"
I randomly stumbled into this place for lunch. The food is just alright there and is nothing to write home (or on Yelp) about. I will say that I had the prepared food, so I cannot say if the order a la carte type food is better. However, I the prices seemed a little up there ($15+ bucks) for the type of place that Emperador is. I had the salmon with rice and beans. The salmon tasted a little old and was kind of bland. Maybe the fried stuff is what you are supposed to order at this place because I was the only person who did not have fried food. The service is pretty good too.
The place itself is kind of interesting in terms of decor because it is a Dominican restaurant but the wall has be painted with images from Italy or Greece? I am assuming Greece, since the restaurant has "Elias" in its name. Um . . . I guess. I will say that one annoying thing about this place is that the music is WAAAYYY too loud. I latin music choices were great but I would be really annoyed if I was here with someone else because I would have scream just to talk to the person next to me.